1:59:43 I'm not arguing that. I'm just saying the report is specious at best by saying, oh well it was every email server is under attack all the time but all the time. It's always going on so... All right and then today or yesterday today I believe is the big celebration that we missed out on and I should be there myself, but I'm not. And the DPRK has their 50th anniversary party in Pyongyang or in the Kim Jong Il Square or wherever it is there you know it's a big it's like May Day thing used to happen in Russia and I think they still do
2:00:22 Now, there's two different reasons. Everyone is... A bunch of our people are going over this. The triple guy says CBS is sending a guy and he gave this report. This is CBS and DPRK and this report is so slanted in I want to comment on these two. I got two reports here one from the DPRK one from China. And I mean sorry one from since DPRK meant CBS party. And that gave Seth Doane a rare opportunity to look inside the Hermit Kingdom The trip is carefully choreographed. We board buses and are told where we're headed North Korea gets media coverage for its upcoming military parade, and we get a glimpse inside this infamously secretive country to stop a look at the metro with its conductors chandeliers and piped in patriotic music
2:01:15 This is hardly just a casual stop at the subway. It is a deliberate effort to show us infrastructure at work One of the things Kim Jong-un has said is that he wants to improve people's everyday life. The question is, Is that really happening? Determining that is a tough task with government assigned minders who monitor our every move How about this lady here I think she doesn't like it too much But we haven't asked Can we ask? The power of the government is clear Many, including children wear pins depicting former leaders. Why do you want to wear Kim Il-sung? This is my heart. Do you wear that pin every day? This doesn't get off in even one hour
2:02:05 They have loosened some restrictions compared with our last trip about two years ago. For instance, now we're able to take video from the bus however when the bus driver made a wrong turn through a rather run-down residential neighborhood there was a scramble Scott to get us out of there. A scramble? A scramble! Because there's no such thing as a run down neighborhood in St Louis or Cleveland or Chicago Austin or Austin or Austin, Texas are any place in the United States. There's no such thing We don't have run neighborhoods No So they freak out when we drive the bus into the rundown this report showed nothing Although it did show the cool Metro station which was very interesting so we switch over to a longer report and I hate that make it play the whole thing but this is a concise report from the Chinese of
2:02:56 outfit. And they put a very, they make a very interesting point which is more or less a pat on the back to the no agenda show by the time this is done." Vice President Liu Enqiao has attended the celebration activities held by the DPRK's embassy in Beijing For more on the DPRK celebration, we want to go live to our correspondent Tony Cheng who's in Pyongyang now. Thanks for joining us there Tony! What more can you tell us about the anniversary celebration there? Well, not an awful lot frankly. Everything is being kept very much under wraps this evening There have been signs all over the city of Pyongyang today that preparations are underway We've seen large movements of people in processions coming in on large buses one imagines from outside
2:03:47 We're still waiting to find out exactly what time we're going to be taken from our hotel to the procession tomorrow. rain tonight and tomorrow morning so the authorities may well be pushing it back slightly because of the weather. But as with many things here in the DPRK, things are generally kept under wraps we are expecting however as you mentioned a very large parade mainly focused on military parade again we're going to be seeing the goose stepping soldiers going through the center Kim Jong-il Square
2:04:28 through the center of Pyongyang, followed by tanks artillery and possibly most interestingly those large missile carriers that we've seen in the past. And what's the mood there Tony? What about international perception of the event? Everyone is happy! I think everyone's very keen obviously that this goes very smoothly. Obviously the DPRK is very famous for putting on these sorts of events, incredibly well coordinated, incredibly well planned There's a certain level of excitement too. And interestingly, what I've seen this time which i haven't seen previously is very large numbers of tourists coming in to witness these events and I think now that access is slightly easier to the DPRK than it has been in the past many people are keen to come from overseas to see this spectacle so
2:05:19 They're all getting rather excited and they're staying in the hotel that we are in as well. But I think, yeah everyone again very keen that this goes smoothly it will have been coordinated and highly orchestrated so one would imagine there'll be very little left to chance. Ah yes! That was your thesis that you brought a long long time ago that North Korea wants to be a tourist destination. And I'll tell you this, when the CBS guy gave his snooty report... Right? He didn't mention that! No of course he didn't mention that and he's been there before apparently and when he was showing the street scenes and the subway in particular people coming in and out The people were dressed a lot more casually than Western
2:06:05 the kind of clothes they wear in China, which is Western clothes. Very casual clothes not uniforms and it was a colorful group It looked a lot different than it did a couple years ago or even when they were doing those shows that Vice Magazine was doing So things are improving This guy's not a slouch Yeah and you know they have that whole ski resort that they wanted to set up I guess the Swiss wouldn't send them the new ski lifts But you know this boils down to one thing John. It's very obvious what has to happen Yes, I love Rondly. Hi. I robbed wrongly I have to go to Korea Yeah, don't drop we need an eye love laundry tour in Korea. We gotta get over there yeah with the airstream Yeah, I rubbed Ron Lee at the air stream over there that would break the show especially kind of results we got today