Whether it is the first day you were at school or you’ve been with us for the past few weeks, thank you for watching CNN Student News. We are your cost-free and commercial-free source for current events. I’m … First stop, unexpected interviews with three Americans detained in North Korea. This is a secretive communist country. It has been at odd with South Korea and United States since fighting stopped in the Korea War in 1953. A CNN reporter was on a government tour of North Korea, when he was taken to a secret location to interview each of the Americans. That included Kenneth Bay, a 46 year old Christian1 missionary2. North Korea imprisoned3 him for what it called hostile acts to bring down the government.
I’ve been hostile to what I have been to acted upon the getting to be released here and I do believe that special
envoy4 need to come to resolve this treason that I … now.
All of the detainees say they admitted
guilt5 to North Korea though one doesn’t know what he has been charged with. CNN couldn’t tell what kind of conditions they were being held in. North Korea government officials monitor the interviews and carefully guided CNN’tour of North Korea.
The moment we landed in North Korea, it feels like we were walking into a time… a nation decades behind the developed world, trying to catch up and trying even harder to control the flow of the information, from the … we take to the pictures we take. Government minders are watching our every move. They control what we see and what we don’t see. Our first stop, the birth place of the nation’s
founder6, a man they called their eternal president Kim II-Sung. Every North Korean who comes to Pyongyang will visit … at least once. This is considered the secret place and coming here is a pilgrimage. These students travelled 23 hours to drink from the Kim family’s Well. “I wanted to come back again”, says 12 year-old… He comes from a rural area in the far North, a far cry from the capital. The showpiece of the nation.
This is the most modern children’s hospital in the entire country, took about a year to build and opened up six months ago, and it is not just the medical equipment that set…, we are told that the kids actually pretend to be sick just as they can use the playground. There are 300 beds in this hospital, in a city of more than two and half million people. It’s one of the several ped project of the nation’s young leader … who inherited power from his father and grandfather before him.
Another price project, the massive.. Water Park, finished in just nine months. We were told…meticulously every detail of this water park. He examined the plans personally were told 113 times, and even at his high ranking government officials test out this water slides to make sure they were safe.
As these people play, the United Nation worries others are suffering. The World Food Program says many North Korean face regular food shortages. You wouldn’t know it with all the money spent on the project like this. Here no expanse is spare to put a modern happy face on Pyongyang, the rest of North Korea is kept hidden from the cameras and the eyes of the outside world. … CNN, Pyongyang, North Korea.