Gene Simmons would love -- LOVE -- to play North Korea, and Russia too, for that matter.
We got the KISS frontman Tuesday at LAX and he groused about music boycotts ... in particular, bands that are refusing to play in Israel in the wake of Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Gene thinks the concept of isolationism in music is absurd, because it's what binds people together.
And Gene calls out one song by name that universally unites people from all countries.