Would NY Phil’s North Korea Trip Support Tyranny?

Terry Teachout finds it unconscionable that the New York Philharmonic would even consider playing a concert in North Korea. “What would you have thought if Franklin Roosevelt had encouraged the Philharmonic to accept an official invitation to play in Berlin in the spring of 1939? Do you think such a concert would have softened the hearts of the Nazis, any more than Jesse Owens’s victories in the 1936 Olympics changed their minds about racial equality? Or inspired the German people to rise up and revolt against Adolf Hilter? Or saved a single Jewish life?”