Amanpour Reports - Notes from North Korea

[cwerdna]

For those who missed the many documentaries/shows on North Korea, here's another.

It was decent but wasn't as in depth as some others I'd see. There was a lot of focus on the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Il along w/a visit to the Yongbyon nuclear facility that's being dismantled.

It's on CNN and looks like it'll be rerun a couple more times tonight.

[sieglinde]

When I first saw parts of it, I thought I had seen it before but I checked the date and it is new. The material surrounding the actual peformance was similar.

[cwerdna]

When I first saw parts of it, I thought I had seen it before but I checked the date and it is new. The material surrounding the actual peformance was similar.
The performance was broadcast on PBS as Great Performances.

I remember I saw a showing of the performance awhile ago. I'm unsure if it was Great Performances but they basically reused a bunch of material from a Diane Sawyer ABC North Korea documentary. In some cases, they had a male reporter just regurgitate the exact same lines and material. In other cases, they used the actual old footage (like her in NK classroom).