BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Now to our exclusive reporting from inside North Korea , where today the secretive regime opened the door a bit for visiting journalists while insisting it would go ahead with a controversial satellite launch as early as this week despite all the international condemnation. Our chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reports again tonight from Pyongyang .
RICHARD ENGEL reporting: North Korea says its rocket is ready for launch, the satellite loaded. And at a press conference in Pyongyang , a defiant announcement. North Korea says it's designing even bigger rockets and better satellites. And there's more they wanted journalists to see. Earlier we were bussed through the capital, along streets now lined with flags. We were taken to see a state-run breeding house for turtles. Here 36-year-old Yang Yung Bok cleans and feeds the breeding pools with a minder ever present. He says he supports the satellite and rocket launch . Bok also helped satisfy a curiosity I had about the mass rallies like the one we saw in Pyongyang yesterday. How do you know when you're supposed to hold up the decorations and when you're supposed to applaud? Do you receive some training in this?
Mr. YANG YUNG BOK: We have a conductor. If you want to learn.
ENGEL: You'll teach me? You'll teach me?
Mr. YANG: Yeah. I will teach you.
ENGEL: OK. Finally, we visited a sparkling clean factory making apple juice. But the machines seemed to produce remarkably little. Was the tour a show, certainly.
But it's revealing how North Korea wants to see itself: modern, strong, independent. This is one of the largest and most advanced factories in all of North Korea . And if there's any doubt to whom it's dedicated, well, there shouldn't be. Kim Jong Il 's ubiquitous portrait here smiles down on the North Korea officials here want the world to see. Richard Engel , NBC News, Pyongyang .
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