The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
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Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 years at War with American Power
Exposé of Washington's malign operations on Korean Peninsula over the decades
Hyunmoo-3 cruise missile - on display during South Korea's military parade in 2017 - is part of its 'Massive Punishment and Retaliation’ strategies against credit: Teukwonjae707/Creative CommonsHyunmoo-3 cruise missile - on display during South Korea's mi
PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
New releases from Ibex Band, Lucy Dacus, and Various Artists
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
AS AB Abrams points out in his book Immovable Object, by launching a war on Korea in 1950, the United States and its allies succeeded in preventing the imminent peaceful reunification of the country and the holding of elections.
According to sources ranging from the CIA to the Kremlin, the elections would have brought about a democratic victory for the North Korean government, due to its considerable popularity among the southern population.
But, just as later in Vietnam, US aggression prevented a popularly elected government peacefully and democratically reunifying the country.
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