August 19-20 saw the situation on the Korean Peninsula ramped up to its highest tensions since 2013.

In the aftermath of the serious injury of two South Korean soldiers by a landmine allegedly planted by the DPRK, loudspeakers broadcasting pro-democracy propaganda messages were placed on the DMZ for the first time in over a decade.

Things escalated fast. The two Koreas exchanged shellfire, and Kim Jong Un ordered the country’s army to go into a state of “semi-war.”

But in the nation’s capital the mood was very different: the Slovenian industrial band