A rare look inside North Korea's Kim Il Sung University - BBC News

These students from kim Il Sung University are singing a catchy little number called let's glorify our country as the general intended.
 
The general being kim Il Sung the country's founding dictator. Test.
 
It's easy as an outsider to see this country as comical or scary or both. But for these people it's the outside world that looks scary. They feel they're surrounded by enemies.
 
Why do you think the Dprk needs nuclear weapons? The the outside world, including the United States and South Korea have nuclear bombs more than more than us. We're always trying to kill us then uh we must protect us. We must protect ourselves when this is also a country that can be very easily offended at the university entrance. Our minders bow before a huge statue of the generalissimo.
 
We are now on hallowed ground as I rapidly find out. What is it you don't like me saying about about. So our minders are now rather upset with us because we tried to do a piece to camera in front of the statue of Kim Il Sung here and they clearly felt that we said stuff that was not respectful to the great leader and now we're in trouble. We're told if we don't delete the offending footage, we will not be allowed to leave the campus just a few meters away. A completely different world. Two nobel Laureates including Britain, Sir Richard roberts are discussing microbiology with a group of North korean students level of english and knowledge of advanced biology is a revelation.
 
But sometimes I thought about becoming an exciting research at the moment.
 
Sir Richard wants to know more. How do they do their research? They have a huge computer lab here. But does it have unrestricted web access?
 
I'm just trying to find out how accessible stuff is because if you're a scientist these days, if you don't have access to the internet, this student seems lost and the supervisor steps in, he didn't know how to get to the internet himself.
 
Not the supervisor is unable to answer and is getting very uncomfortable. What I'm concerned about is that they can't be honest about the fact that they only have limited access to this and that and the other and for them to pretend that really they do have complete access. It's silly.
 
Tonight at the Pyongyang Children's Palace we were treated to another grand performance.
 
This country appears obsessed with portraying an image of strength and perfection, but the level of control and nervousness we've experienced betrays the weakness and insecurity that lies beneath Rupert Wingfield Hayes BBC News in Pyongyang