The pro-Putin Russian pop star Shaman says he is planning to hold another concert in North Korea as soon as this year, following his performance in front of leader Kim Jong Un last week.

Yaroslav Dronov, known as Shaman, called his concert in Pyongyang a “turning point” as he could “open up” and give the “spirit of freedom” to a normally “restrained” North Korean audience, he said in a video interview with the state-run TASS news agency.

“At first they were shocked,” he said of spectators’ initial reaction at his recent performance, when he “fooled around a bit” by running