Inside Pyongyang: How North Korea is changing

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Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN)I've just returned from my tenth reporting trip to North Korea.

While the country remains closed to most of the outside world, during this trip we gained an unprecedented level of access to the lives of ordinary people.

These men and women were chosen by us -- although our government guides often had to work hard to convince people to speak to a US network.

We asked them about their views on North Korea's isolation and economic hardship, and their views on the new US President Donald Trump.

And while they often said similar things -- tightly controlled state media is their only source of information -- we are slowly cracking open the door into their lives.

This would hardly be worthy of comment in most countries, but in North Korea it is remarkable. Never before have we had this much latitude while reporting inside North Korea, which is one of the most restrictive nations in the world when it comes to the press.

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Everything citizens see and hear is carefully screened and approved before being broadcast to the nation's 24 million citizens (or at least those with electricity who are able to watch TV or listen to the radio).

Regular people don't have the Internet. They can't make international calls. State media is their only (very small) window to the outside world.

From a young age, North Koreans are told they live under the constant threat of invasion by the US and therefore their government's allocation of scarce resources to nuclear and missile development is justified.

For decades, that simple, effective propaganda message has helped three generations of Kim family rulers justify their nation's militarization and tight grip on their citizens.

They have perfected how to keep order and control better than perhaps any other regime on earth. They do it by keeping out the rest of the world. North Korea is slowing opening up, but only on its own terms.

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