Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171223:01:24:00
>> thank you very much. it's good to see you, and i'm glad we're meeting like this and not on the battlefield. next stop, kaesong, the north korean city closest to the dmz. what is it like to be so close to south korea but you're not able to go? >> translator: it hurts. and you've been asking about south korea a lot. it's a place i want to go. >> we are so close to seoul, south korea. thriving economy, modern skyline. do you ever ask yourself why you don't have that here? >> translator: we have pyongyang. it's been built with our own power, our own technology, our own independent economy. how ...