BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20" today, Mike Chinoy shares his experiences on reporting in North Korea.</s>MIKE CHINOY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Filing the first live report out of North Korea was a huge challenge. The North Korean government was profoundly suspicious of all Western journalists.</s>CHINOY: With tensions on this divided peninsula higher perhaps...</s>CHINOY: We managed to pull it off in April of 1994. For the North Koreans, this was something of a revelation. They realized that CNN had immense impact because it was seen all over the globe. And they saw that we were fair and balanced in our portrayal of the comments of their president. Covering North Korea is a real challenge. There are government officials who accompany you everywhere you go. There are real limits on what you can see. It's virtually impossible to have an unsupervised conversation with an ordinary North Korean citizen. We, by contrast, want to know about issues like the North Korean nuclear missile program, food shortages, behind the scenes political wheeling and dealing. So there is a constant tension there. And it's a big challenge to try and make sense of it. In our broadcasts, we don't pull our punches. We say what we've heard and we try and offer the most balanced assessment of the country.
CNN 20: Mike Chinoy Reporting from North Korea