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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Un, the
current leader of North Korea,

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has his own girl band.

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Each member handpicked by him.

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But their act has
a sinister edge.

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(singing in Korean).

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NARRATOR: Their show ends with
a vision of the end of the
world, a nuclear Armageddon.

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POST: It's simply impossible
to understand Kim Jong-Un and
predict his actions without

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putting that in the context
of his father and grandfather.

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NARRATOR: This is the
story of the Kim's.

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One family.

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The first Kim,

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a man who tried to
make himself a god.

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GAUSE: Kim Il-Sung was the
founder of the state; the
founder of the revolution.

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A guy who was beloved
by the people.

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NARRATOR: To a son
who could never
match his father.

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BREEN: Kim Jong-Il was not
the obvious candidate to
be his father's successor.

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He was more
uncomfortable with people,
he kept in the background.

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He did have the status, but
he never had the affection.

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NARRATOR: And a
grandson with his finger
on the nuclear button.

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TRUMP: North Korea should have
been handled 20 years ago,
10 years ago and 5 years ago.

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But I'll fix the mess.

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NARRATOR: Now, as it all
comes to a head, this is
the story of the Kims,

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a family of dictators.

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PERRY: They've been smart,
and they've been ruthless, and
they've been single minded on

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their overarching goal,
which is to preserve
the Kim dynasty:

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to keep the regime in power.

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(cheering).

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NARRATOR: The first Kim
ruled North Korea as
if he were their god.

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But it was to
become increasingly clear

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that this god wasn't
going to live forever.

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BREEN: I'm the only
journalist as far as I know,
Seoul-based journalist,

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who's ever met Kim Il-Sung.

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And uh that's this moment.

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Uh, that's me with the hair.

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When I sort of spoke to him
I just got an impression that
he was a little bit out of it,

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a bit sort of vague,
it was kind of like...

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A little bit distracted.

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We were later told that
he was already sick by
this time, was in bed,

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got up for our meeting,
went back to bed afterwards,
so he wasn't in good shape.

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In his 60s, this goiter
on the side of his neck,

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about the size of a fist,
just appeared.

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It continued to
grow, grow, grow.

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GAUSE: And I think
he ultimately came to the
conclusion that he needed to

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have a succession plan.

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NARRATOR: So the world
was wondering who he would
choose to be the next leader.

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The favorite was his brother.

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GAUSE: In the beginning it was
assumed that his heir apparent
was going to be his younger

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brother, Kim Yong-Ju.

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And that person was the head
of surveillance of the system,

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kind of the power
behind the throne.

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NARRATOR: The other
obvious candidate was his
son by his second marriage,

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said to be highly intelligent
and like his father.

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GAUSE: He also had a son who
was very popular within the
military beloved by many parts

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of the old guard.

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NARRATOR: The person no one
was expecting to succeed was
his other son, Kim Jong-Il,

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the head of propaganda.

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GAUSE: He had no experience
in the military, privileged,
raised in a bubble.

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He's enamored with movies
and things like that.

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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il
decided he wanted to be the
next leader after his father,

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but all he really
knew about was movies.

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POST: The Godfather
is a very significant
movie for Kim Jong-Il.

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It can be seen as
almost a literal model
for the Kim dynasty.

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Jerrold Post's job was to
brief the president of the
United States on the mind of

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Kim Jong-Il.

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POST: I was trying to
understand what shaped
this individual.

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From what we know he was, uh,
on the one hand, pampered.

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There's a story, he had
someone whose only job was
to examine each grain of rice

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before it passed
his precious lips.

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His mother died when
he was but a child.

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At the same time,
he had little contact
with his father,

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so Kim Jong-Il was a lonely
boy, an isolated boy.

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He had a need to feel
validated, to feel loved.

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At the same time,
he was living in the
shadow of his father.

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BREEN: Kim Jong-Il was not
the obvious candidate to
be his father's successor,

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but he made up for it
by becoming his father's
great propagandist.

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(cheering).

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NARRATOR: The young Kim
wanted to impress his
father and gain power.

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He decided to try to make
great films that would put
North Korea on the map.

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GAUSE: By the time that he got
into the party apparatus he
had really kind of gravitated

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toward film as being a way of
perpetuating the legitimacy
of the North Korean regime.

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And he starts to
use the North Korean film
industry to try to gain

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the respect of his father.

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NARRATOR: The problem was he
didn't think the North Korean
film industry was any good.

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BREEN: He was a bit of a
critic, he would look at
these movies and just go,

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"This is rubbish."

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And if you're Kim Jong-Il,
you know if you can't sort
of develop the talent locally

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then you hire externally.

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NARRATOR: Kim looked
to the regime's bitter
rival, South Korea,

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and came up with
a fiendish plan.

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BREEN: They were sort
of the Brad and Angelina
of their day in the

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South Korean movie world.

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BREEN: Then she
disappeared in Hong Kong.

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NARRATOR: So the film
director went to Hong Kong,
to search for his wife.

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(speaking in Korean).

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JEONG-KYUN: This is
my mom, mom's voice.

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(speaking in Korean).

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JEONG-KYUN: This is my father.

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(speaking in Korean).

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JEONG-KYUN: Kim Jong-Il.

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This is Kim Jong-Il.

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(speaking in Korean).

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NARRATOR: The arrival of
the tapes, years after the
filmmakers had gone missing,

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finally revealed
the incredible truth:

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the couple had been
abducted by the North Koreans.

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To alert the outside
world to their fate, they
secretly recorded themselves

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in conversation
with Kim Jong-Il.

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This was the first
time anyone outside North
Korea had heard his voice.

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NARRATOR: In 1978, the
first Kim is in control of
North Korea, but his son,

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Kim Jong-Il, wants
to succeed him.

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He's doing everything
he can to please his
father and win power.

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The kidnapping of the
South Korean filmmakers
is going to plan.

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The actress is being
brought to him.

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YI: When she landed,

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Kim Jong-Il approached her,
shook her hand.

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And what he said?
'Welcome to North Korea.'

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BREEN: Once they'd arrived he
said the reason I've brought

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you here is to help
our movie-making, help
improve our industry.

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And this is what they
did for several years.

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YI: In eight years,
they made seven films.

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Kim Jong-Il provided
all kinds of support:

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facilities, studios,
financing, everything.

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Kim Jong-Il was so happy.

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"Oh they are my people now,
100% my people."

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GAUSE: Kim Jong-Il decides "I
need some help on being able
to build up my film industry,

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well, why don't we go
kidnap somebody from South
Korea and bring them here?"

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It's one of those very
personal solutions which
from the outside looks very

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bizarre, but when you
look at it from the
inside of North Korea,

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this is a decision made
by an individual who had no
checks and balances on him.

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And so he decided, "Make
this happen" and it was done.

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NARRATOR:
His plan was to use them to
win international recognition

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for the North Korean
film industry,

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which would prove
his worth to his father.

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YI: So they started to
allow them to travel
abroad together.

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So he started to
make his escape plan.

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So I was selected to
handle this operation.

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We uh told all the American
embassies in European
countries what to do,

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in case they escape.

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NARRATOR: Now the couple
had gained Kim's trust,
they travelled to Vienna,

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supposedly on a business trip
to discuss film distribution.

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The next morning,
they managed to slip
past their guards.

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In the hotel's lobby
they met a journalist who
bundled them into a taxi.

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With their
guards soon following,

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the filmmakers were now players
in a real-life car chase.

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Then, by pure luck, their car
passed through some lights,
just as they were changing.

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They headed straight
for the American embassy
and were finally free.

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(inaudible chatter).

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-Todays conference is
held at the request of
Mr. Shin and Ms. Choi.

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YI: He believed he can do
anything he wants to do.

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He was that kind of person.

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NARRATOR: For Kim Jong-Il,
the North Korean film
industry was on the map.

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He also put his propaganda
department into overdrive,
pumping out films and

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television praising his
father as the greatest leader
the world had ever seen.

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-Kim Jong-Il said, 'Nobody in
the world has ever dedicated
all his life to the people's

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cause for so many years, and
undergone so many hardships,
as our leader has done.

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Whenever I think of the
leader working restlessly
for the people's happiness,

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I feel my eyes moisten.'

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BREEN: It was in the 70s and
80s that the personality cult

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took off and went into
the stratosphere and that
was under the direction

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of his son, Kim Jong-Il.

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(singing in Korean).

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NARRATOR: He stepped up his
statue-building program to
heap praise on his father.

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REPORTER (over TV):
A towering tribute to
Kim's personal velocity,

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higher than the
Washington Monument.

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BREEN: He intensified
the personality cult of his
father to demonstrate that

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he was more worthy than
anybody else to succeed.

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NARRATOR: And at the same
time his rivals fell away.

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His uncle's
health deteriorated, and
Kim Pyong-Il's mother fell

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out of favor, which left
the way clear for Kim Jong-Il.

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(cheering).

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REPORTER (over TV): To the
surprise of his placemen in the
North Korean power structure,

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the Great Leader
appointed his son,
known as the Dear Leader,

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as successor in the
event of his mortality.

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GAUSE: When you look
at what North Korean
policy is all about,

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it doesn't make a whole
lot of sense unless you
tie it into the Kim family.

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If you look at it, it's
basically a family-run
dictatorship.

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It's unique to the whole
Communist experience.

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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il had
achieved his ambition, but
he still had a problem.

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(inaudible chanting).

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MCCORMACK (over TV): Turning
North Korea into the world's
first hereditary Communist

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monarchy has apparently
not been well received by
the country's military.

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GAUSE: There was a
military pushback against
hereditary succession.

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The military didn't believe
this person had what
it took to be the leader,

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so Kim Jong-Il had to
manufacture legitimacy.

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In order to feel secure in
this position, he has to
come in with an iron fist.

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NARRATOR: By the start of
the 1980s, North Korea had
their next leader lined up.

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But he looked like a man
with something to prove.

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POST: The U.S. Government
was gravely concerned.

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Kim Jong-Il was dangerous,
he was living in
the shadow of his father.

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And he had a need
to be respected.

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REPORTER (over TV):
America's top of the line
spy plane, the SR71,

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routinely flies at the
edge of space, at three
times the speed of sound.

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Its spy cameras are capable
of looking hundreds of miles
into hostile territory,

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providing the U.S.
with some of its most
detailed intelligence.

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POST: He was shaped from
boyhood on: you have to defend
yourself against the West,

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and his provocations
became more reckless.

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REYNOLDS (over TV): Good
evening, the United States
now insists there is no doubt

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about it, North Korea
fired a missile at an
American reconnaissance

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or spy plane yesterday.

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It was, according to
the State Department,
an act of lawlessness.

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NARRATOR: As the chosen
next leader, Kim Jong-Il was
now in the driver's seat,

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and starting to take charge
of running North Korea.

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He would prove to make
even wilder decisions
than his father,

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with even less grasp of what
the consequences might be.

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One of his first moves was
to put his embassies to work,

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to bring him his
favorite feature films.

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BREEN: Kim Jong-Il got all
the latest movies illegally
copied by diplomats in

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North Korean embassies
around the world.

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He would have them sent
back to him in Pyongyang.

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He had built up an
enormous library of movies
and he watched all of them.

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He was a big fan of
James Bond apparently.

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And he's exposed himself to
all these movies, they'll
be feeding his imagination.

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How does that influence
him in real terms?

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NARRATOR: According to
the abducted filmmakers Kim
Jong-Il had not only seen and

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loved every James Bond
film, he thought they were
somehow based in reality.

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POST: He had this huge
collection of videos.

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And I believed that that
shaped his concept of how
to be a leader in some ways.

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NARRATOR: A new chapter
of North Korean history
was about to begin,

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with a man in charge acting
ever more like a Bond villain.

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POST: Kim Jong-Il saw himself
as impelled to try to achieve

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the goals that had been
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And so we saw a ramping up of
attacks to achieve unification

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of the Korean peninsula.

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NARRATOR: Next he took a page
out of his father's book.

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His father had twice
tried to kill the
president of South Korea.

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Now Kim Jong-Il attempted
to succeed where
his father had failed.

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REPORTER (over TV):
President Chun of South
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optimistic about their
six-nation tour of Asia.

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NARRATOR: The
South Korean delegation
included Choi Jae-Wook.

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(explosion)

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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il
cared more about
impressing his people

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and his military than
he did about how he
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His plot to assassinate the
South Korean president was an
attempted show of strength.

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(inaudible shouting).

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(inaudible shouting).

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LEHRER (over TV): South
Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan
returned to Seoul today to

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sort out the political
and personal pieces of
yesterday's bombing in Burma,

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a bombing meant for him
that instead killed 19 other
people, including 16 Koreans,

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Chun's motorcade had been
delayed in traffic, the
president was minutes away

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when the bomb went off.

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NARRATOR: Ronald Reagan flew
to South Korea and gave a
speech to the American troops

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stationed in the
demilitarized zone.

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-Atten-hut.

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-At ease!

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-Warriors, the President
of the United States.

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REAGAN: Thank you
very much, Colonel.

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There's no better proof of
the relationship between
strength and freedom than

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right here in the DMZ in Korea.

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You stand between the free
world and the armed forces of
a system that is hostile to

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everything we believe
in as Americans.

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The Communist system to
the North is based on
hatred and oppression.

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Its attack against the
leaders of the South Korean
government in Rangoon made

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clear what kind of enemy
you face across the DMZ.

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NARRATOR: Over the years the
reckless action of the Kims
led to international sympathy

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and support for South Korea.

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BREEN: The conclusion in
South Korea in the intelligence
world was that Kim Jong-Il

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was kind of, out of place
as a leader that actually
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some kind of Hollywood
director type of character.

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NARRATOR: The last thing
North Korea's master
showman would have wanted

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was what happened next:

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an opportunity
for South Korea to
triumph on the world stage.

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JENNINGS (over TV): News today
of the 1988 Olympic Games.

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The International Olympic
Committee awarded the
summer games to Seoul,

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the capital of South Korea.

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BREEN: Seoul, the capital of
South Korea, being awarded
the Olympics was a moment of

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recognition, and I felt
at the time that the world was
symbolically acknowledging the

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ascendancy of South
Korea over North Korea.

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NARRATOR: Rocked by
this announcement, Kim
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He announced that North Korea
would co-host the games, and
before he got an answer

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from the Olympic committee,
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BARRON (over TV): The vast
propaganda machine here is
still demanding that the North

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be allowed to co-host the
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It's a monumental effort,
new sports complexes are

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growing like mushrooms
all over Pyongyang.

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This glittering masterpiece
is known as the Chrysanthemum
Stadium because of its shape.

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His nation's entire resources,
money, steel, concrete,
are being channeled into this.

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With 150,000 seats the
Communists claim it will
be the world's biggest,

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easily surpassing
Seoul's Olympic Stadium.

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NARRATOR: Kim's gamble was:
"Build it and they will come.'

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The Olympic committee
did politely pay a visit to

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discuss sharing the
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they decided against it.

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Seoul, the South
Korean capital, would
host the games alone.

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As excitement built in South
Korea as the games approached,
there was always the worry

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about what the North
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CARLUCCI (over TV): We
certainly cannot rule out the
possibility that they would

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attempt to disrupt
the Olympics.

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BREEN: The only thing
North Korea's ever been
internationally competitive

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in, is the ability
to cause trouble.

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DRAPER: What does that mean?

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BREEN: Well that means a
bit of terrorism basically.

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JENNINGS (over TV): This week
the South Koreans did some
pretty public advertising on

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how prepared they are to
keep the Games secure.

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REPORTER (over TV): An elite
anti-terrorist task force has
been in training here for more

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than two years, perfecting
ways to overpower hijackers,
preparing for the worst.

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POST: Not having the
supreme honor of hosting
the Olympics must have been so

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humiliating for Kim that
if he wasn't going to
have them, nobody was.

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REPORTER (over TV): The
Olympic Flame which burns in
Seoul is more than a symbol of

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preparedness, it heralds the
emergence of a country which
has become the new economic

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miracle of the 20th century.

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NARRATOR: As the '88
Seoul Olympics approaches,

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tensions escalate between
the Kims and South Korea.

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REPORTER (over TV):
The Seoul Olympics will
have the distinction of

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being the most
heavily guarded
sporting event in history.

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GAUSE: The separation
between South Korea and North
Korea was becoming apparent,

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everyone felt the fear
of possible terrorism.

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REPORTER (over TV):
A U.S. carrier task force
is even sitting off-shore,

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as a deterrent to possible
North Korean aggression.

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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il appealed
to the Soviet Union and
China to boycott the games,

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but even his communist
allies let him down, and
decided to take part.

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GAUSE: He had spent a lot
of time and effort courting
fellow Communist countries,

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and the fact that
many of them were going
to come to the Olympics

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was a slap in the face.

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For Kim Jong-Il and his father,

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it really turned their vision
of the world upside down.

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They were increasingly
desperate over the situation.

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Yeah. 2, 1, 0.

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(inaudible radio).

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REPORTER (over TV): A
Korean Airlines jet carrying
115 people on a flight

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from Iraq vanished today
somewhere near Burma.

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REPORTER (over TV): As
aircraft search for the
wreckage of the Korean

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airliner, reports of
a possible bomb plot
begin to surface,

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leading investigators to
think Flight 858 may have
been a terrorist target.

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REPORTER (over TV):
Relatives of the 95
passengers and 20 crew began

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gathering as news of
the disappearance spread.

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All but two on board
were of Korean origin.

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(speaking in Korean).

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(speaking in Korean).

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GAUSE: North Korean operatives
were well-trained, and they
were carrying out a mission

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that they were told
directly by Kim Jong-Il.

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They nearly got away with it.

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BARRON (over TV):
The mouth of 26-year-old
Kim Huyn-Hee was taped up

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to prevent her
poisoning herself.

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Miss Kim, and another
North Korean agent who
did commit suicide,

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blew up a South Korean
airliner killing
over 100 people.

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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il's
agent was sentenced to death
for her act of mass murder,

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but she was later pardoned by
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who stated that she
was a brainwashed victim
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the Kim regime.

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REPORTER (over TV): For the
next two weeks a worldwide
audience will be treated to

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the 24th Olympic Games.

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South Korea, whose
capital is the site,

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and whose country is in the
world's eye as never before.

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LIFTKE (over TV): A
moment of national pride,
especially when more than

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9,000 athletes finally
marched in, the largest
number in Olympic history.

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The first Games in
three decades with the U.S.,

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China and the
Soviet Union all competing.

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BREEN: The Olympics in a way
were the end of a disastrous
decade but were just the eve

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of a far more disastrous
one for the North Koreans.

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-Welcome athletes of the world.

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NARRATOR: The success of the
South Korean Olympics was kept
from the North Korean people.

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Instead they watched
TV shows like this.

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(speaking in Korean).

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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il
was making himself
like his father,

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a god in the eyes
of his people.

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And he was about to use
his power more wildly and
extravagantly than anyone

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