A CBS News reporter reveals what it was like when North Korea blew up its nuclear testing site

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CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy was the only American broadcast news correspondent invited by North Korea to witness the destruction of a nuclear testing facility last week.

Tracy described the trip as secretive and full of strict rules, but reported officials said they wanted journalists at the site to be "transparent."

Tracy was not allowed to pull up the shades on his train window and had his radiation-testing equipment confiscated.

CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy gave viewers a close-up look at the demolition of a nuclear testing facility in North Korea last week, a publicity-oriented trip he described as full of strict rules.

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