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 Jean-Baptiste KIM, one of the main promoters (or better said: THE main promoter) of "2007 PY Rock Festival/ROCK FOR PEACE" (☞ 평양 2007年 5月) published on the first day of the new year following statement:

"I .. need to announce that ROCK FOR PEACE will be suspended along with myself. It was my passion to bring rock festival into North Korea but I decided not to continue on this project because I know full details of the event, the reasons, the purposes, the backgrounds, everything. The reason why I abandon the event is because the event was politically designed which gives more pains to ordinary people but more benefits to the regime. The event was designed to generate westernized reputations over the current isolated image of the regime. I have generated lots of reactions from world medias and I was about to use them in order to generate new political images for internal and external political purposes. It has been also designed to make more money while UN sanction is restricting DPRK rulers. I am pretty much sure that the money I create from this project will not benefit ordinary people but only gives political fund for ruling minority only..." 

His entire statement ("MY COUP D'ETAT, CONSCIENCE AGAINST REASONS OF STATE") - actually he's breaking complete with the DPRK - you can read here: http://www.voiceofkorea.org