Ethnomusicologist Keith Howard has spent years listening to “mind-numbing” North Korean music to better understand how it reflects and reinforces the secretive state’s ideology.

It’s Tuesday afternoon practice for the Arirang Texas Group, a club of Korean seniors who perform a Korean folk music tradition called pungmul that involves drumming, singing and dancing.

As the district’s population of Nepali students is massive– they’ve rolled out a Nepali based dance class at Taylor Road Elementary School.

North Korea celebrated the 110th anniversary of the birth of late founder Kim Il Sung on Friday with fireworks, a procession, and an evening gala in Pyongyang's main square, with thousands of ...