have you guys 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 songdowon international children s camp in wonsan, 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, this statue. everything here, just like everything 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. photos and statues are everywhere. songs of praise are staples.
we ve traveled to parts of north korea that few foreigners have ever seen. in panmunjom, the cold war never ended. the quiet countryside surrounding this area is littered with land mines. no filming allowed on the roads here. now our government minders are letting us do a little souvenir shopping. i ve never seen a gift shop like this. these postcards are some of the most popular items. this one reading, we will crush the u.s.ttempts for a nuclear war. this one, to the u.s. hard line, we will counter it with the ultra hard line. and you can buy them right here. if you think the postcards are intense, wait till you see the posters. you don t need to read korean to know what this means here. the u.s. capitol there. the symbolism says it all. yep, that s the capitol, and that s a giant fist crushing the u.s. did you see the american being annihilated by his own missile? i m sensing a theme here. what makes all of this even more surreal is where we are.
our government minders are taking us from north korea s capital, pyongyang, to the coast of 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.
in panmunjom, the cold war never ended. the quiet countryside is littered with land mines. no filming allowed on the roads here. now our government minders are letting us do a little souvenir shopping. i ve never seen a gift shop like this. these postcards are some of the most populartems. this one reading, we will crush the u.s. attempts for a nuclear war. this one, to the u.s. hard line, we will counter it with the ultra hard line. and you can buy them right here. if you think the postcards are intense, wait till you see the posters. you don t need to read korean to know what this means here. the u.s. capitol there. the symbolism says it all. yep, that s the capitol, and that s a giant fist crushing the u.s. did you see the american being annihilated by his own missile? i m sensing a theme here.
about americans at school? they forcibly invaded us and slaughtered our people and buried them alive and killed them. they teach thaw the americans are the enemy and you need to shoot them to fight them? yes. here s where things get awkward. what if i told you i m an american. do you want to shoot me too? yes. there are good people. we will see if you are a good person or a bad person. i m a good american. don t shoot me. um, no. i won t shoot. this is the paradox of north korea. smiling young people, friendly, polite. even as they me how much they hate the united states. from their earliest years, they are told america could attack at any time. told they must prepare for the next war. in north korea, government