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>> this time you're here with governor bill richardson, and next time i'm inviting you to come to pyongyang again. >> thank you very much. i hope either this time or the next time you and i could sit down for a cnn interview. our viewers in the united states and around the world would be grateful. >> why not? >> thank you, thank you. still, after the cameras are gone, the meeting itself is very intense. >> he started out fairly hard line basically saying, there's an artillery drill that is being performed by the south koreans. the united states won't talk to us. we're ready for either dialogue...

It's a city without much going on, because the economic -- the international trade is just not there. and it's a bit of a sad yet beautiful place. bittersweet. >> at stores i see lots of books slamming the united states, including this one. the united states imperialists started the korean war. our first full day in pyongyang, but the next day is critical. richardson is meeting with the chief nuclear negotiator, the man who invited him to visit this country, just as tensions on the korean peninsula are mounting. the whole world is watching right now. one miscalculation could cause a full-scale...

>> it's certainly not a good time to be in pyongyang. but the show must go on. our hosts want to show us the subway system. the escalators are so long you can't see the bottom from the top, but the choice of this sight-seeing destination might not be so random. the subway system doubles as a bomb shelter. we're here at the prosperity subway station. it's deep underground. we're really, really deep underground. patriotic pictures all over the place. >> do people pay for these? >> yeah. 5 yuan per ride. >> how much in u.s.? >> it's very little. 100 yuan to a dollar. so five cents. >> it's a nick...

Go up to somebody with a friendly face and try to strike up a conversation, and they simply won't respond. >> at the entrance to the building, a huge statue of north korea's founder, sort of reminds me of the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. we go to the music room where we see old school boomboxes and people listening to music on headphones. >> we're at a library in north korea at pyongyang listening to this big box over here to kenny rogers. it's a crazy world we're living in. >> next, a visit to the elite foreign language high school. we're here at the pyongyang foreign language school....