'90s Industrial Band First Foreign Group To Tour North Korea

Here's a story you don't hear very often — a Slovenian band is heading out on tour… to the Communist dictatorship of North Korea.

As ABC reports, industrial rockers Laibach have confirmed they'll head to the isolated country this August to play two shows at the Kim Won Gyun Music Conservatory in Pyongyang, playing some of their own songs as well as some North Korean folk songs.

Dr Leonid Petrov, an expert on North Korean at ANU, said, "It's obvious North Korea is trying to demonstrate and pretend that it is looking for some change or trying to introduce some changes or innovation, but not really."

"It's probably going to be restricted to the members of elite families, children and descendents of the regime and decision-makers going to view the concert, but I doubt that it is going to be broadcast across the country."

The avant-garde band have often been accused of Neo-Nazism for their totalitarian aesthetic and frequent use of swastikas, while others argue the band are simply parodying the political stance.