Mun Kyong-jin

Mun received numerous awards and recognitions from the North Korean government during his career.^[2] In 2005, Mun won I prize (First Prize) during the Canetti International Violin Competition in Hungary.^[3][2] He performed with the Unhasu Orchestra at the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris on March 14, 2012.^[4][1]

In August 2013, Mun was reported to have been arrested and executed along with the singer Hyon Song-wol and others for violating North Korea's strict rules against pornography.^[5][6] However, it subsequently emerged that Hyon Song-wol had not been executed because she appeared on state television a year later.^[7]

• Mun Kyong-jin performing "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saëns with the Unhasu Orchestra in Paris in 2012 on YouTube.

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