The ensemble, for the first time in 20 years, triumphantly played Russian army music in the DPRK. Previously, the band made 6 tour trips to North Korea: in 1962, 1986, 1991, 1998, 1999 and 2004.

The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...