ABC News In North Korea: Minders Only Rejected One Request & One Video Clip

The new issue of TV Week recaps the recent ABC News trip to North Korea.

“There were no [declared] restrictions [on stories] going in,” foreign editor Chuck Lustig says. The only ABC request not granted was a visit to a nuclear facility. “They said ‘No’ once we were in there. We kept asking and asking. They kept saying ‘No.'”

The only video that didn’t make it past a government censor was a shot “of a big bronze statue of former leader Kim Il Sung surrounded by leaves that obscured the statue a bit too much for the censor’s taste,” the story says.

Will ABC be back? “It doesn’t happen until it happens, but we have not been discouraged at all by the North Korean authorities from continuing to discuss with them going back over to do a documentary,” David Westin says…