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(BAND PLAYING MUSIC)
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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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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS)
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NARRATOR: Their show ends
with a vision of the end of the world...
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a nuclear Armageddon.
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JERROLD: It's simply impossible
to understand Kim Jong-Un
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and predict his actions
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without putting that in the context
of his father and... grandfather.
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NARRATOR: This is the story of three men.
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One family.
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The first Kim...
a man who tried to make himself a God.
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KEN 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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MICHAEL BREEN:
Kim Jong-Il was not the obvious candidate
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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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(BEEPING)
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(LAUGHTER)
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DONALD TRUMP: North Korea
should have been handled twenty years ago,
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ten years ago and five 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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WILLIAM PERRY: They've been smart,
and they've been ruthless
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and they've been single minded
on their overarching goal,
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which is to preserve the Kim dynasty...
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to keep the regime in power.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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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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-(CHEERING)
-(MUSIC PLAYS)
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NARRATOR:
But it was to become increasingly clear
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that this God
wasn't going to live forever.
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MICHAEL:
I'm the only journalist as far as I know,
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Seoul-based journalist,
who's ever met Kim Il-Sung.
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And 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,
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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...
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that he was already sick by this time,
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was in bed, got up for our meeting,
went back to bed afterwards,
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so he wasn't in good shape.
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In his sixties,
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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KEN: And I think he ultimately
came to the conclusion
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that he needed to 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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In the beginning, it was assumed
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that his heir apparent was going to be
his younger brother, Kim Yong-Ju.
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And that person was the head, uh,
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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KEN: He also had a son
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who was very popular
within the military...
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beloved by many parts of the old guard.
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NARRATOR: The person
no one was expecting to succeed
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was his other son, Kim Jong-Il,
the head of propaganda.
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KEN: He had no experience in the military,
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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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JERROLD: 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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NARRATOR: Jerrold Post's job was to brief
the President of the United States
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on the mind of Kim Jong-Il.
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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
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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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MICHAEL: Kim Jong-Il
was not the obvious candidate
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to be his father's successor...
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but he made up for it by becoming,
uh, his father's great propagandist.
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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...
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that would put North Korea on the map.
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KEN: By the time
that he got into the party apparatus
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he had really kind of gravitated
toward film
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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
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to try to gain the respect of his father.
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NARRATOR: The problem was...
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he didn't think the North Korean
film industry was any good.
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MICHAEL: He was a bit of a critic,
he would...
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look at these movies and just go,
"This is rubbish."
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And if you're Kim Jong-Il,
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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 his neighbors,
the regime's bitter rivals, South Korea,
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and came up with a fiendish plan.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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SHIN JEONG-KYUN: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
In South Korea at the time
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my father was the best director...
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and my mother was the best actress.
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(IN KOREAN) My heart is overwhelmed.
I don't know what to say.
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MICHAEL: They were, sort of,
the Brad and Angelina of their day
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in the South Korean movie world.
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Actress Choi Eun-hee is reported
missing in Hong Kong.
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MICHAEL: Then she disappeared
in Hong Kong.
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(IN KOREAN)
My father told me, "Don't worry."
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"I'll find her and bring her back."
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NARRATOR: So the film director
went to Hong Kong,
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to search for his wife.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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SHIN JEONG-KYUN: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
When father disappeared as well...
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I was really shocked.
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The first year, I thought
they would eventually come back...
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and the next, I thought they may not.
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The year after that,
I thought they must have died.
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It was a dark time for me.
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Then we received some recordings
that were smuggled out of North Korea.
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(RECORDING OF WOMAN
SPEAKING KOREAN)
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(IN ENGLISH) This is my mom, mom's voice.
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(RECORDING CONTINUES)
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(RECORDING OF MAN SPEAKING KOREAN)
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This is my father.
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(RECORDING CONTINUES)
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Kim Jong-Il. This is Kim Jong-Il.
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(RECORDING CONTINUES)
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NARRATOR: The arrival of the tapes,
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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,
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they secretly recorded themselves
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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Let me explain the process to both of you.
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I've had my eye on you
in terms of film production.
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I just said, "Bring them to me."
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NARRATOR: In 1978,
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the first Kim
is in control of North Korea,
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but his son, 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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(IN KOREAN) My mother was
constantly moved between boats
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until she arrived in North Korea
over a week later.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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SHIN JEONG-KYUN: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
She said she felt an indescribable fear.
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She asked someone where she was going.
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He replied,
"You are going to Kim Jong-Il."
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MICHAEL YI: When she landed...
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Kim Jong-Il approached her...
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shook her hand.
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And what he said?
"Welcome to North Korea."
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MICHAEL: Once they'd arrived he said
the reason I've brought you here
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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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MICHAEL 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,
one hundred percent my people."
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KEN: Kim Jong-Il decides
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"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
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which from the outside looks very bizarre,
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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
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to win international recognition
for the North Korean film industry,
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which would prove his worth to his father.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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KIM JONG-IL: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
Let's penetrate the European market.
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Go to film festivals in Europe.
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Let's make
the South Korean bastards jealous.
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(LAUGHS)
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(IN ENGLISH) 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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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,
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they traveled to Vienna,
supposedly on a business trip
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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,
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their car passed through some lights,
just as they were changing.
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They headed straight
for the American Embassy...
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and were finally free.
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(IN KOREAN) When I heard that my parents
had escaped, my joy was indescribable.
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I'd thought that I would
never see them again.
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(REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
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Today's conference is held
at the request of Mr. Shin and Miss Choi.
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REPORTER: You've had a rare chance to
see the North Korean leadership up close.
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What's your impression of that leadership?
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Thank you.
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(IN KOREAN) The fact that they had to
resort to kidnapping us
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means they don't understand the West.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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SHIN JEONG-KYUN: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
From his perspective,
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he improved the North Korean film industry
by kidnapping them.
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But I'll hate Kim Jong-Il forever
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for having split up our family.
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MICHAEL 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 though,
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the North Korean film industry
was on the map.
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He also put his propaganda department
into overdrive,
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pumping out films and television
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praising his father as the greatest leader
the world had ever seen.
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VOICEOVER: Nobody in the world
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has ever dedicated all his life
to the people's cause for so many years,
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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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MICHAEL:
It was in the seventies and eighties,
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that the personality cult took off
and went into the stratosphere
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and that was under the direction
of his son, Kim Jong-Il.
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(CHILDREN SINGING IN KOREAN)
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NARRATOR: He stepped up
his statue-building program
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to heap praise on his father.
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REPORTER: A towering tribute
to Kim's personal velocity...
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higher than the Washington Monument.
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MICHAEL: He intensified
the personality cult of his father
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to demonstrate that 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,
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and Kim Pyong-Il's mother
fell out of favor,
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which left the way clear for Kim Jong-Il.
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(CHEERING)
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NARRATOR: 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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(APPLAUSE)
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KEN: 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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(CHEERING)
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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il
had achieved his ambition,
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but he still had a problem.
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(SOLDIERS CHANTING)
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DONALD MCCORMACK: Turning North Korea
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into the world's first
hereditary Communist monarchy
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has apparently not been well received
by the country's military.
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KEN: 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,
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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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JERROLD: The US Government
was gravely concerned.
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Kim Jong-Il was dangerous,
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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: 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 US with some
of its most detailed intelligence.
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JERROLD: He was shaped from boyhood on,
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you have to defend yourself
against the West,
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and his provocations became more reckless.
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.Good evening, the United States
now insists there is no doubt about it.
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North Korea fired a missile at an American
reconnaissance 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 driving 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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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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NARRATOR: 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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MICHAEL: Kim Jong-Il got
all the latest movies illegally copied
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by diplomats in 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.
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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,
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Kim Jong-Il had not only seen and loved
every James Bond film,
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he thought they were
somehow based in reality.
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JERROLD:
He had this huge collection of videos.
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And I believed
that that shaped his concept
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of how to be a leader in some ways.
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NARRATOR: And so 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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Kim Jong-Il saw himself as impelled
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to try to achieve the goals that
had been implanted in him by his father.
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And so we saw a ramping up of attacks
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to achieve unification
of the Korean peninsula.
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NARRATOR: Next, he took a leaf
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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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
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REPORTER: President Chun of South Korea
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and his party are 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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(IN KOREAN) What I had to do
as Press Secretary was
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communicate with the people
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and design Government policies
accordingly.
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By attracting Burma over to our side
we hoped to get an economic foothold.
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The event was due to start
at 10.30 in the morning.
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Cameramen were competing
against each other for the best position.
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As press secretary,
I was there to keep order.
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I told them to sort themselves out.
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The ambassador told us to get ready...
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as the president would arrive in a minute.
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So we formed a line of 16 people.
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I was just adjusting my tie
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and remembering not to slouch.
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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 looked to the world.
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His plot to assassinate
the South Korean President
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was an attempted show of strength.
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(EXPLOSION)
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION CONTINUES)
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CHOI JAE WOOK: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
When I recovered consciousness
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the rafters were all over me.
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Everyone around me was dead.
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(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
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CHOI JAE WOOK: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
I called out for help.
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They loaded me into the car
and took me to hospital.
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JIM LEHRER:
South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan
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returned to Seoul today to sort out
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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,
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including 16 Koreans, four of whom
were members of Chun's cabinet.
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Chun's motorcade
had been delayed in traffic,
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the president was minutes away
when the bomb went off.
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
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CHOI JAE WOOK: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
A Burmese court confirmed...
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North Korea was behind the attack.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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I feel extremely sad when...
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I think of those who died.
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They were friends.
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NARRATOR:
Ronald Reagan flew to South Korea...
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and gave a speech to the American troops
stationed in the Demilitarized Zone.
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(BUGLE PLAYS)
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SOLDIER: Atten-hut.
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COLONEL: At ease!
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Warriors,
the President of the United States.
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Thank you very much, Colonel.
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There's no better proof
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of the relationship
between strength and freedom
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than right here in the DMZ in Korea.
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You stand between the free world
and the armed forces of a system
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that is hostile to 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
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made clear what kind of enemy
you face across the DMZ.
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NARRATOR: Over the years
the reckless action of the Kims
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led to an international sympathy
and support for South Korea.
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MICHAEL: The conclusion in South Korea
in the intelligence world
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was that Kim Jong-Il was, kind of...
out of place as a leader.
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That actually he was more like 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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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
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News today of the 1988 Olympic Games.
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The International Olympic Committee
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awarded the summer games to Seoul,
the capital of South Korea.
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(IN FRENCH) The 16th Olympics in 1988
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goes to the city of Seoul.
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(CHEERING)
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MICHAEL: (IN ENGLISH)
Seoul, the capital of South Korea,
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being awarded the Olympics
was a moment of recognition,
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and I felt at the time that the world
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was symbolically acknowledging
the ascendancy
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of South Korea over North Korea.
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NARRATOR: Rocked by this announcement,
Kim makes a wild demand.
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He announced that North Korea
will co-host the Games...
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and before he got an answer
from the Olympic Committee,
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he started building stadiums.
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BRIAN BARRON:
The vast propaganda machine here
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is still demanding
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that the North be allowed
to co-host the Olympics with the South.
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It's a monumental effort.
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New sports complexes are growing
like mushrooms all over Pyongyang.
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This glittering masterpiece is known
as the Chrysanthemum Stadium
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because of its shape.
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His nation's entire resources,
money, steel, concrete
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are being channeled into this.
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With 150,000 seats,
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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 discuss sharing the Games,
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but ultimately, they decided against it.
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Seoul, the South Korean capital,
would host the Games alone.
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And so, as excitement built in South Korea
as the Games approached
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there was always the worry about
what the North Koreans might do next.
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FRANK CARLUCCI:
We certainly cannot rule out...
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the possibility that they would attempt
to disrupt the Olympics.
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MICHAEL: The only thing North Korea's
ever been internationally competitive in,
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is the ability to cause trouble.
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(GUN FIRE)
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INTERVIEWER: What does that mean?
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Well, that means
a bit of terrorism basically.
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PETER: This week the South Koreans
did some pretty public advertising.
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on how prepared they are
to keep the Games secure.
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An elite anti-terrorist task force
has been in training here
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for more than two years,
perfecting ways to overpower hijackers...
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(GRUNTING)
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PETER: ...preparing for the worst.
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JERROLD: Not having the supreme honor
of hosting the Olympics
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must have been so humiliating for Kim
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that if he wasn't going to have them,
nobody was.
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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)
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REPORTER: The Olympic Flame
which burns in Seoul
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is more than a symbol of preparedness.
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It heralds the emergence of a country
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which has become the new economic 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: The Seoul Olympics
will have the distinction of being
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the most heavily guarded sporting event
in history.
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(SLOW MUSIC PLAYS)
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KEN: 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: A US 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
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to boycott the Games,
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but even his Communist allies
let him down,
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and decided to take part.
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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)
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KEN: He had spent a lot of time and effort
courting fellow Communist countries,
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and, uh, the fact that many of them were
going to come to the Olympics,
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uh, 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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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
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(IN KOREAN)
The day before we left the hotel...
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we received the explosives.
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While we were waiting in the airport...
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I set the timer on the bomb
to explode after nine hours.
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(BEEPING)
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KIM HYUN HEE: (IN KOREAN) The bomb
looked like a bottle of whiskey...
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and a Panasonic radio.
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I placed the bag containing the bomb
in an overhead locker.
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When we arrived in Abu Dhabi
we got off the plane.
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(BEEPING CONTINUES)
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The final destination was Seoul.
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For a moment I thought...
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of how they were all about to die.
473
00:41:22,359 --> 00:41:23,960
But I had to eliminate that thought.
474
00:41:24,027 --> 00:41:27,097
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
475
00:41:29,799 --> 00:41:35,639
MAN: And... recording. Yeah.
Two one zero...
476
00:41:35,705 --> 00:41:39,576
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
477
00:41:41,912 --> 00:41:45,782
A Korean Airlines jet carrying 115 people
on a flight from Iraq
478
00:41:45,849 --> 00:41:47,817
vanished today somewhere near Burma.
479
00:41:49,219 --> 00:41:52,255
NEWSREADER: As aircraft search
for the wreckage of the Korean airliner,
480
00:41:52,322 --> 00:41:55,025
reports of a possible bomb plot
begin to surface,
481
00:41:55,091 --> 00:41:59,663
leading investigators to think Flight 858
may have been a terrorist target.
482
00:42:00,363 --> 00:42:02,966
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
483
00:42:03,867 --> 00:42:06,770
NEWSREADER 2: Relatives of
the 95 passengers and 20 crew
484
00:42:06,836 --> 00:42:09,472
began gathering
as news of the disappearance spread.
485
00:42:10,607 --> 00:42:13,109
All but two on board
were of Korean origin.
486
00:42:13,176 --> 00:42:15,445
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
487
00:42:18,048 --> 00:42:20,517
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
488
00:42:26,756 --> 00:42:31,061
(IN KOREAN) I thought
I was contributing to reunification
489
00:42:31,127 --> 00:42:35,098
by damaging the enemy.
490
00:42:35,165 --> 00:42:37,667
(CRYING)
491
00:42:44,908 --> 00:42:48,678
(IN KOREAN) North Korea is a place
where you fulfill an order
492
00:42:48,745 --> 00:42:50,947
just as a soldier would.
493
00:42:58,855 --> 00:43:02,525
KEN: North Korean operatives
were well-trained...
494
00:43:03,627 --> 00:43:06,029
and they were carrying out a mission
495
00:43:06,096 --> 00:43:10,367
that they were told directly
by Kim Jong-Il.
496
00:43:13,303 --> 00:43:14,938
They nearly got away with it.
497
00:43:17,874 --> 00:43:22,779
KIM HYUN HEE: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
After it happened I was arrested.
498
00:43:25,849 --> 00:43:28,051
In case of failure...
499
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:33,223
we were given a poison capsule
500
00:43:33,290 --> 00:43:36,626
to commit suicide with
501
00:43:36,693 --> 00:43:42,999
but they hit me as I was biting into it.
502
00:43:46,369 --> 00:43:51,174
BRIAN: The mouth of twenty-six-year-old
Kim Huyn-Hee was taped up
503
00:43:51,241 --> 00:43:53,843
to prevent her poisoning herself.
504
00:43:53,910 --> 00:43:58,515
Miss Kim, and another North Korean agent
who did commit suicide,
505
00:43:58,582 --> 00:44:02,852
blew up a South Korean airliner
killing over a hundred people.
506
00:44:03,987 --> 00:44:06,690
(PEOPLE CRYING, TALKING)
507
00:44:14,931 --> 00:44:16,433
NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il's agent
508
00:44:16,499 --> 00:44:19,603
was sentenced to death
for her act of mass murder,
509
00:44:19,669 --> 00:44:22,906
but she was later pardoned
by the South Korean President,
510
00:44:22,973 --> 00:44:26,977
who stated that she was
a brainwashed victim of the real culprit,
511
00:44:27,043 --> 00:44:28,511
the Kim regime.
512
00:44:31,781 --> 00:44:35,185
(IN KOREAN) As a person
who has committed a terrible crime...
513
00:44:39,122 --> 00:44:42,025
I just begged them...
514
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,430
to kill me quietly.
515
00:44:56,139 --> 00:44:59,442
When I was being interrogated
by the police
516
00:44:59,509 --> 00:45:03,680
I spotted the Olympics on a TV screen.
517
00:45:04,915 --> 00:45:06,316
NEWSREADER: For the next two weeks
518
00:45:06,383 --> 00:45:09,853
a worldwide audience will be treated
to the 24th Olympic Games.
519
00:45:11,421 --> 00:45:13,757
South Korea, whose capital is the site,
520
00:45:13,823 --> 00:45:16,860
and whose country is in the world's eye
as never before.
521
00:45:19,329 --> 00:45:21,331
MARK LIFTKE: A moment of national pride,
522
00:45:21,398 --> 00:45:24,734
especially when more than 9000 athletes
finally marched in,
523
00:45:24,801 --> 00:45:27,003
the largest number in Olympic history.
524
00:45:27,070 --> 00:45:28,939
The first Games in three decades
525
00:45:29,005 --> 00:45:32,542
with the US, China
and the Soviet Union all competing.
526
00:45:33,910 --> 00:45:38,048
-(CHEERING)
-(SINGING)
527
00:45:38,114 --> 00:45:41,451
KIM HYUN HEE: (SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
Seeing this made me ask...
528
00:45:42,686 --> 00:45:48,992
"Why had North Korea had tried to stop
such a wonderful thing happening?"
529
00:45:55,932 --> 00:46:00,604
MICHAEL: The Olympics in a way
were the end of a disastrous decade
530
00:46:00,670 --> 00:46:05,141
but were just the eve of a far more
disastrous one for the North Koreans.
531
00:46:08,612 --> 00:46:11,581
Welcome, athletes of the world.
532
00:46:11,648 --> 00:46:14,417
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS)
533
00:46:16,019 --> 00:46:18,455
NARRATOR: The success
of the South Korean Olympics
534
00:46:18,521 --> 00:46:20,523
was kept from the North Korean people.
535
00:46:22,492 --> 00:46:26,529
Instead they watched TV shows like this.
536
00:46:26,596 --> 00:46:28,365
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
537
00:46:35,071 --> 00:46:38,541
(SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
538
00:46:41,311 --> 00:46:45,348
NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il was making himself
like his father,
539
00:46:45,415 --> 00:46:47,984
a God in the eyes of his people.
540
00:46:50,086 --> 00:46:55,525
And he was about to use his power
more wildly and extravagantly
541
00:46:55,592 --> 00:46:58,061
than anyone would have imagined.
542
00:46:58,128 --> 00:47:00,931
(MUSIC ENDS)