well, i don t have a hairy chest you tell me do i have a big nose? with a nose like that, the sort of. have you fiez ever met an american before. they become visibly uncomfortable when they learn i m an american. i m the first one they ve ever met. i won t interrupt your game any longer. thank you very much. it was nice to meet you guys. next, our government minders want us to see this place, the song dough juan international children s camp in juan san, considered the best in north korea. entire school classes compete for a chance to spend two weeks at camp. many of these kids have never seen anything like it. but this is something they know well. the first thing you see when you walk into this camp, the statue. everything here, just like everywhere else in north korea, centers around the leaders. these children have been taught a fierce loyalty to their nation s leaders, all members of the kim family.
tonight? we spent 15 days in north korea, and there have been so many times i ve been there and we re heading to a shoot and i m looking out the window of the van just wishing that we could stop and pull over and actually talk to people and ask them about their lives. and for the first time ever, we had an opportunity to do that. you know, we re constantly under the supervision of government minders. they had an agenda. things that they wanted to show us, but some of the best moments that you re going to see in just a couple of minutes were these unscripted moments where we were able to stop and kind of in an unplanned way approach people and ask them questions. so like these young people that we found in the clip you re about to see. in north korea, government minders watch our every move and restrict what we can film, even if this is what we want to see. high school students horsing around at the beach. i can t help but wonder, what do they actually know about america?
our government minders are taking us from north korea s capital, pyongyang, to the coastal city of wonsan. our 125-mile journey on this bumpy road takes almost five hours. we ve been driving for a couple of hours through the countryside, and we ve just gotten stopped at a checkpoint. already several minutes now, our minders are speaking with the police officer. not sure what s happening, but he doesn t seem to want to let us pass. travel here is restricted, and getting stopped can be nerve-racking. but we re finally allowed to pass. it turns out the concern this time is only about our big van disturbing the road work ahead. driving on, we see men and women laboring in dark tunnels.
time in north korea over the last couple years. you ve got a special coming up on cnn. you ve got unprecedented access inside the country. what are we going to see tonight? we spent 15 days in north korea and there have been so many times i ve been there and we re heading to a shoot and i m looking out the window of the van just wush wishing that we could stop and pullover and actually talk to people and ask them about their lives and for the first time ever we had an opportunity to do that. you know, we re constantly under the supervision of government minders. they had an agenda. things that they wanted to show us, but some of the best moments that you re going to see in just a couple of minutes were these unscripted moments where we were able to stop and kind of in an unplanned way approach people and ask them questions. so like these young people that we found in the clip you re about to see. in north korea government minders watch our every move and restrict what we can film,
korea we re covering missile launches or the recent nuclear tests. we re driving through the city and you look out the window and you think, gosh, we could just pull over. that would be such a great story. i would love to ask these people what they re doing. this documentary is a chance for us to do that. yes, we were under the control of governmentminders. they supervise that we re doing and restrict what we can film. but there are opportunities that we have never had before, to stop the van and just jump out and talk to the people. this was not preplanned, not staged. those are some of the best highlighted in this hour. i want to show you some. in north korea, government minders watch our every move and restrict what we can film. even if this is what we want to see. high school students horses around at the beach. i can t help but wonder, what do they actually know about america?