To celebrate first anniversary of Joint Pyongyang Declaration opted by leers of two Koreas, South Korea will hold a concert along heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on September 9. Opening at Dorasan Station, just south of border with rth Korea, DMZ Peace Concert in evening will have me "Culture Connects".

South Korean Ministers of culture, foreign affairs, and unification will attend celebration, which will bring toger musicians from many different genres for a joint performance. or invitees include rth Korean defectors, Korean War veterans, South Korean and American soldiers stationed near border, and South Korean civilians whose hometowns are in rth, according to Ministry. 

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Highlights of event

Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma and prominent Korean tritional drummer and performer Kim Deok-su, are a part of  concert's lineup, according to Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. Ahn Sook-sun, master singer of Korean tritional solo opera "Pansori;" and female K-pop duo Rooftop Moonlight will also be included in performances. Tritional Korean dances from both South and rth and Yo-Yo Ma's unaccompanied cello performance will be main attraction of event. Or than this, children's songs from era before division of two Koreas and a pia performance by Kim Cheol-Woong, a rth Korean pianist who defected to South Korea will also be featured in two-hour concert.

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Peacemaking in Korean Peninsula

In recognition of ir joint determination to end military hostility across border and to boost cooperation, President Moon Jae-in and rth Korean leer Kim Jong-un signed declaration in rth Korean capital on September 19 last year. Efforts like opening of some of trails along sourn side of DMZ to public has been ratcheted by Seoul to transform DMZ and surrounding areas. cultural projects are a symbol of peace undertaken by Government. Ministry hopes that celebrations too will draw attention to peace that is building in Korean Peninsula.

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(With inputs from ANI)