>> a rare and revealing look inside the country of north korea. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel has just returned from a lengthy trip there. richard, good to see you. welcome back to new york.
>> thanks. it was two weeks, and this is a difficult country to report from. it's not like the north koreans just open the doors and tell people to come in. we were flanked by government minders, we had to wear these gestapoesque arm bands identifying ourselves as journalists, but it nonetheless was a look inside this very closed country.
the massive parade, hundreds of thousands of troops goose-stepping to show loyalty to their absolute leader. but in pyongyang, reunification park we found people dancing to their own rhythm. it wasn't choreographed, just a look at something so rarely seen here. normal life.
pyongyang is north korea's showcase capital. the money all goes here. there's 105-story hotel. but it was never finished. the streets are immaculately clean and wide.
kim il-sung and his successor and son kim jong-il are worshipped in this, the world's last solid estate. the cult of personality was all around us during our two-week visit.
this is the bookstore in the hotel where journalists are staying and if you're looking for some light reading, this probably isn't the place to come. all of the books are either by kim jong-il or his father kim il-sung, or about the two men. they're in multiple languages, and if i have a question i can just pick this one up. answers to the questions raised by foreign journalists. volume four.
oh, yeah, there's a bowling alley in the hotel, too. but it was closed. our every move in north korea was subject to government minders. they showed us the north korea the government wants the world to see. like the olympic sized pool at pyongyang's best university. where the elite play and work out. and its library, with students in suits and ties, computers for everyone. but when i asked a computer science student what he knew about social media, he was stumped. are you on facebook? after a conversation with the minder, it was clear the computer science student had never heard of facebook.
perhaps most revealing of all was this train trip we took through the countryside. many north koreans outside pyongyang are starving. it's easy to see why. the fields looked lifeless. north korea is a secretive and closed society. free thinking isn't encouraged here.
but maybe north korea is opening up, or maybe it just wants the world to understand it a little better.
one of the most distinct memories i have from this trip is a 16-year-old school girl, high school student, and she was in a shop buying a pair of glasses. there are very shoe shops there and i asked her how she starts her day. we've all done chores in school. this girl starts her school day, every day, by polishing a portrait of the country's founder and then sitting down in homage to the leader and that's the way it works in north korea. they call it the personality that is pervasive.
>> little different than we do things here. richard engel, thanks
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