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(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
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MAN: It's simply impossible
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to understand Kim Jong-Un
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, the Kims.
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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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Between them, they have run North Korea
for over 70 years,
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creating their own mythical legend,
a Communist dynasty.
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An entire nation
lives under their control
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while they hold the rest of the world
to ransom.
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(BEEPING)
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(MISSILE BLASTS)
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(LAUGHS)
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Rocket man is on a suicide mission
for himself.
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NARRATOR: As Kim Jong-Un
plays his game of nuclear poker,
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he borrows from a script
written by his grandfather,
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Kim Il-Sung, and father, Kim Jong-Il.
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CHARLES KARTMAN:
Kim Jong-Il was a playboy.
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He was sort of erratic.
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(GUNSHOTS FIRE)
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Our problem was, can you trust this man?
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NARRATOR: Surrounded by enemies,
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a cunning dictator who will stop
at nothing to stay in power.
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ADAM JOHNSON:
There's always some paranoia.
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There's always some plot going on.
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(MISSILE BLASTS)
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NARRATOR: While his people starve,
he reaches for the nuclear button,
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creating a narco-state
to fund his missile program
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and lavish lifestyle.
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ADAM JOHNSON: You cannot survive
and live there unless you're Kim Jong-Il.
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NARRATOR: Seen through the eyes of
the regime's friends and many enemies...
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the Kims, one of the most notorious
dynasties of modern times.
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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,
to keep the regime in power.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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MIKE CHINOY: In 1988, South Korea
had staged the Olympic Games
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and it was a huge triumph.
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In 1989, North Korea staged its response.
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(CHEERING)
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This youth festival
was a classic North Korean production,
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and it involved,
not only their own people,
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they had the supporting cast from
all their comrades in the Socialist bloc.
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It was a way for them to try
to boost the image of North Korea,
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and to show that
they had friends all over the world.
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(CHEERING)
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So, you have this really weird dynamic
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of this moment
of great Communist triumphalism
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presided over by Kim Il-Sung
and Kim Jong-Il...
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when the edifice underneath was so weak,
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and in a matter of months,
it was all going to come crashing down.
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REPORTER: Tonight, East Germany
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simply threw open the gates
of that country,
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the gates which have been closed now
for almost 30 years.
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MIKE CHINOY: If you put yourself in the
shoes of Kim Jong-Il in the early '90s,
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you've got Erich Honecker
from East Germany...
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REPORTER: It happened so suddenly,
the wall finally opened.
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MIKE CHINOY: ...Nicolae Ceausescu
from Romania...
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(SPEAKS ROMANIAN)
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(GUNSHOTS FIRE)
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MIKE CHINOY: (IN ENGLISH)
...and the Soviet Union.
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(PEOPLE CHANT IN RUSSIAN)
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MIKE CHINOY: (IN ENGLISH)
These are all North Korea's friends,
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and they've all ended up
in the dustbin of history,
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and this has to have generated
considerable anxiety and unease
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about the ability of North Korea
to stay afloat.
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I first went to North Korea in 1989,
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and that was the first of what eventually
became 17 trips over almost 25 years.
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The way to look at North Korea
is like a 15th-century Korean kingdom,
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in which you have the emperor,
who is the son of Heaven,
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and the dynasty that springs from that.
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NARRATOR: The grandfather of the dynasty,
Kim Il-Sung,
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has been North Korea's unchallenged ruler
for the last four decades.
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Now, the end of the Cold War
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triggers the start of the handover
of power to his chosen successor,
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his son, Kim Jong-Il.
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(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
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MIKE CHINOY: The decision to put
Kim Jong-Il at the head of the army
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immediately after the fall
of the Soviet Union,
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to give him operational control
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over the most important institution
in North Korea,
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at a time when his father was almost 80...
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was a way to let everybody know
that Kim Jong-Il is the guy.
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KO YOUNG-HWAN: (IN KOREAN)
His personality
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is different from his father's.
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He was a spoilt rich kid.
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Raised like a prince.
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He was rude and arrogant.
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Any internal challenge against his power
was what he feared the most.
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He was also extremely paranoid
and scared of his enemies abroad.
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NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il
had spent years as crown prince,
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waiting to inherit the kingdom.
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Now, as power beckons,
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he introduces himself to his people
in an address lasting just five seconds.
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(IN KOREAN)
Glory to the people's heroic military!
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(INDISTINCT CHEERING)
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NARRATOR: It is his
only speech ever to be broadcast.
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Now, with the fall of the Soviet Union,
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and North Korea still officially
at war with the United States,
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it would be down to this reclusive
and untried leader
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to find a way to secure the future
of his dynasty.
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When you're inside North Korea, it is
like going through the looking glass.
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They're the ones who feel scared,
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beleaguered and threatened,
and under siege.
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NARRATOR: And so, Kim Jong-Il
makes a fateful choice:
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the one thing that he knows will
give his enemies pause for thought...
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the one thing that could guarantee
his regime's survival.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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CHARLES KARTMAN: We discovered
through overhead photography,
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that they were developing
a complex at Yongbyon
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that seemed to have no purpose
other than the production of plutonium.
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(BEEPS)
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And the majority
of the purpose of Yongbyon
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was to produce plutonium
for nuclear weapons.
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North Korea suddenly
backed out of an agreement
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designed to limit the spread
of nuclear weapons,
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and put its country off limits
to international inspectors.
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A lot of alarms, as you can imagine,
went off.
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NARRATOR: To America, it looks like
the actions of a war-hungry dictator,
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but for Kim Jong-Il,
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there is a ruthless logic
to his masterplan.
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No-one was going to threaten a North
Korea in possession of nuclear weapons.
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CHARLES KARTMAN:
They had gotten our attention
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with their nuclear program.
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It was troubling
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because the more people studied
the implications,
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the more they became concerned.
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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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NARRATOR: For America's newly elected
President Bill Clinton,
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it is now a priority to find out
more about the man,
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who might one day have his finger
on the nuclear trigger.
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CHARLES KARTMAN: Kim Jong-Il
was still the great unknown,
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and what we did know of him
was not entirely savory.
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It was taken as, as kind of a given
that they were going to find ways
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to push us into places
we didn't want to go.
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WILLIAM PERRY: Kim Jong-Il understood
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that their military
could not stand up to the U.S. military.
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And therefore, they believed
they had to have nuclear weapons.
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It was clear to me that
that would be catastrophic.
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We wanted to stop that from happening.
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The question was how to do that.
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I was prepared, given the authorization
from President Clinton...
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to use conventional cruise missiles
to destroy their nuclear facility,
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and that would have stopped
the nuclear program cold.
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BILL CLINTON: We would quickly
and overwhelmingly retaliate
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if they were to ever develop
and use a nuclear weapon.
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It would mean the end
of their country as they know it.
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They know that that is
what we are bound to do.
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(MISSILE BLASTS, WHISTLES)
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REPORTER: Along the coast of South Korea,
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this war game, Team Spirit,
has become an annual irritant
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across the DMZ in North Korea.
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WILLIAM PERRY: I believed,
and President Clinton believed,
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that the North Koreans
would probably respond
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with a military attack on South Korea.
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We were considering the possibility
of hundreds of thousands of casualties.
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NARRATOR: North Korea duly reacts
to the American threat
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by massing its vast army
on the border with the South.
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CHARLES KARTMAN: Kim Jong-Il had moved
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tens of thousands
of long-range artillery pieces
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up to cover the whole area,
including Seoul,
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30 miles from the DMZ.
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And so, there was a never-ending tension.
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NARRATOR: The prospect of a new
Korean War edges ever closer.
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(SIRENS WAIL)
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In the South Korean capital, Seoul,
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the city braces itself
for an imminent attack by the North,
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as the United States moves closer
to a surgical strike
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on Kim Jong-Il's nuclear complex.
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(SIRENS WAIL)
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Kim Jong-Il had played the nuclear card
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and taken North Korea to the brink
of a new war with America.
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But now his father, Kim Il-Sung,
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still officially North Korea's
supreme leader,
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takes control of the crisis.
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WILLIAM PERRY: Kim Il-Sung believed
he had overplayed his hand.
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He did not want a war
with the United States.
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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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So, he invited former President Carter
to the North.
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NARRATOR: The Communist guerrilla
who had started the Korean War,
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and called for the American imperialists
to be crushed,
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had turned elder statesman
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and was about to talk peace
with the old enemy.
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-PRESIDENT CARTER: Good morning.
-(IN KOREAN) Welcome.
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INTERPRETER: (IN ENGLISH)
Welcome to our country.
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I'm delighted to be here, sir.
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(IN KOREAN)
Thank you for coming here.
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(IN ENGLISH) This is my wife, Rosalynn.
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There was a kind of,
"Wow, this is a major historical moment."
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(SPEAKING KOREAN)
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INTERPRETER: (IN ENGLISH)
What is important between us is trust,
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confidence, uh, in each other.
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-That is the most important point.
-PRESIDENT CARTER: Sure.
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NARRATOR: Carter brokers a deal.
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In return for American aid,
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North Korea promises to suspend
its nuclear program.
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INTERPRETER: If we meet again,
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then next time,
we'll become old friends already.
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NARRATOR: But for North Korea,
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the real prize is the promise
of a political and economic relationship
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with the world's
only remaining superpower.
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The Kims' aggressive strategy
had paid off.
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MIKE CHINOY: Kim was very affable.
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His interpersonal dynamic with Carter
was quite warm and friendly.
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And so, Carter was able
to shift the climate away
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from confrontation
and towards negotiation.
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The tension that had hung
over the Korean Peninsula
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slowly seemed to be lifting.
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And then, suddenly, out of the blue,
you had this terrible shock.
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(THUNDER AND LIGHTNING CRASHES)
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(IN KOREAN) Announcement to all
party members and the people...
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all our working people,
co-operative farmers, soldiers,
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and people's military soldiers,
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all the intellectuals and young students.
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We announce with grieving heart
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to all the country and the people
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Comrade Kim Il-Sung, General Secretary
of the Korea Workers' Party
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and Supreme Leader of the DPRK...
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passed away at 2 a.m...
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on the 8th of July 1994.
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MICHAEL BUERK: Kim Il-Sung
of North Korea has died of a heart attack.
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He was 82.
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His extravagant personality cult
referred to him as "the Great Leader."
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There's reported to be
a frenzy of mourning tonight
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in the capital, Pyongyang.
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(PEOPLE WAILING, SOBBING)
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REPORTER: With the death
of Kim Il-Sung of North Korea,
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the world's shrinking circle
of Socialist leaders
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lost its longest reigning member.
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He was in control of North Korea
from before the Korean War,
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which he started in 1950,
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up through his meeting
with former President Jimmy Carter
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that occurred just a couple of weeks ago.
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The death of Kim Il-Sung was a shock...
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and certainly, there was some concern.
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The known quantity is about to be
replaced by the unknown quantity.
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MIKE CHINOY: The outside world
had seen Kim Jong-Il
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as the kind of spoiled brat son
of the all-powerful dictator,
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surrounded by all of these rumors
of how strange he was.
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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
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While he had been groomed to succeed him,
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Kim Jong-Il was deeply, deeply distressed
by his father's death.
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North Korea's allies had all disappeared.
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Partly because of that, their
economic system was kind of seizing up.
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And so, from the outside,
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the big question was,
how long would he last?
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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REPORTER 1: An erratic regime
with an untested leader
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is on the brink of mass starvation.
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Only a handful of outsiders
have gotten close enough
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to even guess about the scope
of the disaster.
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Two years of floods have been followed
by a summer of drought.
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According to one estimate, fully five
million people face possible starvation.
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NARRATOR: Without North Korea's
Communist allies to bail him out,
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this is a crisis Kim Jong-Il
will have to face alone.
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REPORTER 2: People are surviving
on only about 12 spoons of food a day,
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and that is being supplemented,
in some cases, by handpicked grass.
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It's clearly a very desperate situation.
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MIKE CHINOY: Those were three
exceptionally challenging years
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in North Korea.
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The public distribution system,
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which is how most North Koreans
got their food,
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basically collapsed.
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The damage was cataclysmic.
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(IN KOREAN) At that time in the mid-'90s
you could see dead bodies
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in front of railway stations,
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the entrance to markets,
basically everywhere.
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In the end, nobody cared,
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they died without even being noticed.
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I can still picture them in the streets.
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Many children and elderly people
died at that time.
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There were rumors of people being seized
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in order to be eaten.
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NARRATOR: More than half
a million people are believed to have died
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during the famine.
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MIKE CHINOY: What was interesting was,
in spite of the intense human suffering,
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the political system remained intact.
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SUE LLOYD ROBERTS:
Children have skin diseases,
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a kind of scurvy brought about
by malnutrition and vitamin deficiency.
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But all of them,
including this little girl with jaundice,
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have had their cheeks rouged
to make them look healthier to outsiders.
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MIKE CHINOY: Putting resources
into ensuring regime survival
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takes priority over putting resources
in to feed the people.
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Simple as that.
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MIKE CHINOY: By the late '90s,
Kim Jong-Il had this daunting challenge
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of keeping the dynasty intact
and keeping the system afloat
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at an exceptionally challenging time.
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So, you had an all-pervasive
security apparatus
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that would quash any political dissent.
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(SPARKS CRACKLE)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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Testing, testing...
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Testing.
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My job was to interrogate
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the North Korean defectors
and espionage agents.
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The Hwanghae iron works
on the west coast,
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they employed tens of thousands
of employees.
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Every day sixty or 100 people died.
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Starved.
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So the general managers,
they sold steel to China
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to buy food to feed the employees.
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And Kim Jong-Il found out.
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"Why did you do this
without my permission?"
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So, they killed eight people
in front of all employees.
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(GUNSHOTS FIRE)
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So for the first time
in North Korean history,
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the factory employees staged a sitting
demonstration against Kim Jong-Il.
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Please give us food.
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The following morning what happened?
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Kim Jong-Il brought in military tanks
and ran over them.
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After that North Korea was shaking.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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(IN KOREAN) Over a number of years,
I worked closely with Kim Jong-Il.
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Kim Jong-Il was very clever.
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He had animal instincts
for picking out any party members
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who have bad sentiments towards him.
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He was extremely paranoid.
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Maybe because he's so short,
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he always wore a bouffant hairstyle
to look taller.
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He had shoes with a 7cm heel
specially made in Switzerland.
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He had a big belly,
so he always wore a jacket to hide it.
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Just saying something like
''the leader is fat" or "he's short"
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can send three generations of your family
to a concentration camp.
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NARRATOR: The regime
keeps an iron grip over its people.
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There are numerous prison camps
within North Korea.
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The prisoners are kept
in brutal conditions.
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And in addition,
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some executions are carried out
in full public view.
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MAN: (IN KOREAN) Fire.
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Fire.
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Fire.
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HYEONSEO LEE: I witnessed
the first public execution in my life
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when I was seven.
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The criminal's
or victim's immediate family
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and relatives had to stand
at the very front line.
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When I see the people
dying in front of me,
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it reminds me, I shouldn't do anything
against the government and leadership,
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otherwise, I will be killed exactly
like the person in front of me.
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That's exactly what the regime wanted.
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MAN: (IN KOREAN) You have witnessed
how miserable fools end up.
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Traitors who betray the nation
and its people end up like this.
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NARRATOR: The famine
had pushed North Korea to the edge.
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But Kim Jong-Il is determined
to survive, come what may,
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and wants the world to know it.
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(CHEERING)
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MIKE CHINOY: In Kim Il-Sung Square,
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a signal to the United States
and the rest of the world
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that North Korea, for all its troubles,
is still a power to be reckoned with.
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(CHEERING)
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ADAM JOHNSON:
You know, the Arduous March,
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as the famine was known in North Korea,
was really devastating.
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But Kim Jong-Il only knew one lifestyle.
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He didn't know a night
without his cognac,
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without his caviar, without his sushi.
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We never saw him get thin.
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(CHEERING)
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NARRATOR: Very few outsiders ever came
close to the Kims' secret inner circle.
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But one man did gain the trust
of Kim Jong-Il.
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ADAM JOHNSON:
Kenji Fujimoto is a man from Japan
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who, uh, became the chef of Kim Jong-Il,
"the Dear Leader."
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NARRATOR: He spoke at length to
an American writer about his experiences,
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before returning to North Korea,
where he now lives.
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(TAPE WHIRRS)
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ADAM JOHNSON: Sakudaira, uh,
December 9, with, uh, Fujimoto-san.
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KENJI FUJIMOTO: (IN KOREAN)
Everybody called him the General.
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ADAM JOHNSON:
You know, he told me that
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he would oversee the perfect serving
of the evenings' meals.
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And then, once that was all finished,
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he would then come join in the drinking,
often late,
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and Kim Jong-Il loved to make him
drink extra to catch up.
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So, he basically just rolled
with Kim Jong-Il's posse.
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KENJI FUJIMOTO: (IN KOREAN) By drinking
100ml in one go he gave me a US $100 bill.
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TRANSLATOR: By drinking what?
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-KENJI FUJIMOTO: Cognac.
-TRANSLATOR: Cognac.
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ADAM JOHNSON: Uh, Fujimoto
would talk about the endless parties,
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but these parties were life and death.
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At these parties, Kim Jong-Il
would spontaneously marry people.
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He would divorce people.
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He would make women box one another.
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There were stories of sexual acts.
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There's a story that's confirmed
about one person
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having to shoot another person
at a party.
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Quickly, Fujimoto-san became the person
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to procure the elite goods
that Kim Jong-Il favored.
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He would get his shopping list
and he would take the jet.
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(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO)
X-Ray, One radio check, check one two.
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ADAM JOHNSON:
He would go to Iran for caviar.
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He would go to Prague for beer.
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He would go to Denmark for pork.
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Kim Jong-Il would get burger urges,
and there was a McDonald's in Beijing,
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and the jet would be fired up
for midnight runs to get Big Macs.
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Long trips to France to get cognac.
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year,
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so they obviously knew this was
their single greatest customer on Earth.
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And, of course, Japan,
to the Tsukiji fish market for his sushi.
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KO YOUNG-HWAN: (IN KOREAN)
In North Korea,
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any information about the Kim family
is top secret.
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When Kim Jong-Il came to power,
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nobody really knew about his wives
including their names.
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Song Hye-rim, Kim Young-sook,
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Ko Young-hui and Kim Ok.
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NARRATOR:
Kim Jong-Il's wives and mistresses
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give him at least five known children,
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one of whom is destined to become
the dynasty's next leader,
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Kim Jong-Un.
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ADAM JOHNSON: Kim Jong-Il's children
were precious commodities.
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They had nannies.
Uh, they were in protected places.
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From an early age,
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Fujimoto-san said Kim Jong-Un
was aggressive,
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there was fire in his eyes,
he was competitive,
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and that everyone called him
"the little tiger".
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There was a time in which
Fujimoto-san notices
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that Kim Jong-Un and his older brother are
attempting to make a kite work.
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And the kite won't fly.
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And there are lots of executives
standing around, men in suits.
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None of them will help the boys
with the kite.
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They go to assist the boys,
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they might be insinuating
incompetence in the boys.
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An action like that could put you
under great scrutiny.
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(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
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Fujimoto-san told me,
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he comes out and he knows
what's wrong with the kite,
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there's no tail on it.
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So, he puts the tail on the kite,
and then the kite flies.
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When Kim Jong-Il comes back
and sees the kite flying,
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sees his boys happy,
it has a great impression upon him.
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And one day,
Kim Jong-Il came to Fujimoto-san,
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and he said, "I've fired the nannies,
and you're going to be their playmate."
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NARRATOR: North Korea's
human and economic ruin
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leaves Kim Jong-Il desperate
for hard currency
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to prop up his ailing dynasty,
and he will stop at nothing to get it.
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BOB HAMER: The FBI was aware that
somebody was counterfeiting our $100 bill.
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So, I put the word out that I was looking
for good quality counterfeit money.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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I spent 26 years in the FBI.
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I've successfully posed
as a contract killer,
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as a white-collar criminal,
as a pedophile,
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as an international arms dealer.
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It was a pretty exciting
rollercoaster career.
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This money is easy money, right?
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-MAN: Okay.
-Easy money.
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BOB HAMER: This was my first meeting
with Wilson Liu.
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It was in a hotel room.
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He was telling me that he was responsible
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for bringing in near-perfect $100 bills
to the United States.
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And I explained I could get
their container through the port.
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When you've got like this kind
of business, if you do one time,
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you don't want to do
the other business anymore.
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-MAN: Okay.
-It was 35 cents on a dollar,
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so it was $350,000
for a $1 million purchase.
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I know, political...
Politics is very, very dark.
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And dirty, I hate it.
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BOB HAMER: You just don't buy
a printing press off of Craigslist.
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We're talking about the same presses
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that are used by
our Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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We're talking about specialized paper.
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So, all of this has to be acquired
with the approval
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of the highest levels of government.
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And Wilson Liu, in conversation, said
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that these were
the North Korean-manufactured supernotes,
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our counterfeit $100 bills.
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(PRINTING PRESS CLICKS, WHIRRS)
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We were told that it would be
coming in a 20-foot container.
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The money would be stored
in rolls of fabric.
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We keep rolling and rolling,
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and all of a sudden,
I feel lumps in the fabric.
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And this money, the counterfeit currency,
the supernote, is all there.
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NARRATOR: North Korea also launders
the supernote
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via sealed diplomatic bags,
using Asian-organized crime syndicates,
472
00:33:46,636 --> 00:33:50,373
as well as the banks
and casinos of Macau.
473
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,376
But that's just one part
of a vast criminal operation
474
00:33:53,443 --> 00:33:56,947
centered on Pyongyang,
and spanning the entire globe.
475
00:33:59,583 --> 00:34:01,518
MIKE CHINOY:
The North Koreans got involved
476
00:34:01,585 --> 00:34:05,222
in all kinds of dodgy
international dealings.
477
00:34:05,288 --> 00:34:08,358
They were selling all kinds of stuff
478
00:34:08,425 --> 00:34:11,361
because they desperately needed
foreign currency.
479
00:34:12,662 --> 00:34:15,699
NARRATOR: North Korea
also traffics narcotics.
480
00:34:16,733 --> 00:34:20,637
Methamphetamine and heroin
have been seized as far as Germany,
481
00:34:20,704 --> 00:34:22,339
Russia, and Australia.
482
00:34:22,405 --> 00:34:24,040
(SIREN WAILING)
483
00:34:24,908 --> 00:34:28,044
All the money is channeled back
into a secret fund
484
00:34:28,111 --> 00:34:30,413
controlled by Kim Jong-Il,
485
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,252
to help pay for the one thing he hopes
will guarantee his regime's survival.
486
00:34:42,659 --> 00:34:46,930
(ALARM BUZZES)
487
00:34:51,301 --> 00:34:53,937
(MISSILE BLASTS)
488
00:34:54,004 --> 00:34:57,007
REPORTER: The Pentagon calls
the firing of a ballistic missile
489
00:34:57,073 --> 00:35:00,911
by North Korea a, quote,
"serious development."
490
00:35:02,012 --> 00:35:04,481
MIKE CHINOY:
The missile test was, I think in part,
491
00:35:04,548 --> 00:35:07,317
a signal to the United States
492
00:35:07,384 --> 00:35:10,987
that, "If you're going
to not come through on your side,
493
00:35:11,054 --> 00:35:16,092
then we can continue to do things
that you don't like.
494
00:35:17,894 --> 00:35:22,132
Just because North Korea has problems,
don't anybody rush to conclude
495
00:35:22,198 --> 00:35:24,668
it's a weak state
that you can push around."
496
00:35:25,669 --> 00:35:28,672
You have this sort of duality
in North Korean behavior,
497
00:35:28,738 --> 00:35:33,410
which alternates between
very provocative military measures,
498
00:35:33,476 --> 00:35:35,879
and then steps
that the North Koreans take
499
00:35:35,946 --> 00:35:40,116
to indicate they're not so scary
and that you can deal with them.
500
00:35:40,183 --> 00:35:42,586
(CHEERING)
501
00:35:46,122 --> 00:35:49,092
REPORTER: A historic turning point
on the Korean Peninsula.
502
00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:52,362
The leaders of North and South Korea
in Pyongyang,
503
00:35:52,429 --> 00:35:57,534
pledging to bring the Cold War
in this volatile corner of Asia to an end.
504
00:35:59,703 --> 00:36:03,640
The North Korean leader
sought to project a new image.
505
00:36:03,707 --> 00:36:07,844
He even joked about
his eccentric reputation overseas.
506
00:36:07,911 --> 00:36:13,316
(IN KOREAN) Europeans often ask me
why I live as a recluse.
507
00:36:13,383 --> 00:36:15,852
This is my first time to show
that I'm not.
508
00:36:15,919 --> 00:36:19,823
President Kim Dae-Jung came
and liberated me from my reclusive life.
509
00:36:19,890 --> 00:36:21,391
(LAUGHTER)
510
00:36:21,458 --> 00:36:23,226
MIKE CHINOY:
This was a guy who, before this time,
511
00:36:23,293 --> 00:36:26,129
had almost never been heard
to speak in public.
512
00:36:26,196 --> 00:36:30,400
And now he was both speaking,
and even making self-deprecating jokes.
513
00:36:32,602 --> 00:36:35,772
So, it suggests that this
is an act, in a sense.
514
00:36:35,839 --> 00:36:39,776
They can turn it on, they can turn it off
as and when they see fit.
515
00:36:41,077 --> 00:36:43,246
CHOI HAK RAE: (IN KOREAN)
When President Kim Dae-Jung
516
00:36:43,313 --> 00:36:45,615
visited North Korea for the summit...
517
00:36:46,750 --> 00:36:49,452
I was a member of the press entourage.
518
00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:53,723
That's when I first met
Chairman Kim Jong-Il.
519
00:36:59,296 --> 00:37:04,901
They offer the best of the best when
foreign visitors come to their country
520
00:37:04,968 --> 00:37:09,673
even if they are on the verge
of being starved to death.
521
00:37:11,374 --> 00:37:15,478
They even served food made of bear paws.
522
00:37:15,545 --> 00:37:19,416
They served world class wine.
523
00:37:20,383 --> 00:37:22,085
It was way too luxurious.
524
00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:28,792
He tapped me on the shoulder when talking
and I did the same back.
525
00:37:28,858 --> 00:37:33,530
I told Chairman Kim Jong-Il.
526
00:37:33,597 --> 00:37:37,767
If you want to improve relations
with the U.S.,
527
00:37:37,834 --> 00:37:42,973
you should not be interested
in developing missiles or nukes.
528
00:37:45,208 --> 00:37:49,112
Chairman Kim Jong-Il answered me...
529
00:37:50,180 --> 00:37:56,853
"I know that as soon as we even try
to shoot missiles at the U.S.,
530
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,490
their missiles and nuclear weapons
will turn our republic into ashes.
531
00:38:00,557 --> 00:38:03,226
and wipe us off the Earth.
532
00:38:03,293 --> 00:38:09,332
However, the only way to get the U.S.
to engage with us
533
00:38:09,399 --> 00:38:14,437
is to develop missiles
and nuclear weapons."
534
00:38:16,139 --> 00:38:20,810
NARRATOR: Kim Jong-Il's
strategy of engaging America works.
535
00:38:21,311 --> 00:38:26,016
In October 2000,
Madeleine Albright arrives in Pyongyang
536
00:38:26,082 --> 00:38:29,319
to prepare the ground
for a possible historic summit
537
00:38:29,386 --> 00:38:32,455
between Kim Jong-Il
and President Clinton.
538
00:38:34,457 --> 00:38:37,694
The U.S. hopes it will lead
to North Korea finally abandoning
539
00:38:37,761 --> 00:38:39,663
its missile program.
540
00:38:41,565 --> 00:38:44,935
REPORTER: Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright is making history today,
541
00:38:45,001 --> 00:38:48,438
closing a diplomatic gap
created by the Cold War.
542
00:38:48,505 --> 00:38:52,108
She's in North Korea
for unprecedented talks with its leader.
543
00:38:53,076 --> 00:38:56,813
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
544
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,015
CHARLES KARTMAN:
Madeleine Albright had gone there
545
00:38:59,082 --> 00:39:00,850
to take the measure of the man.
546
00:39:01,351 --> 00:39:03,119
Who is Kim Jong-Il,
547
00:39:03,186 --> 00:39:08,658
and is he somebody that we can reliably
have our president sit down with?
548
00:39:09,759 --> 00:39:13,129
Her very visit itself
was an important step
549
00:39:13,196 --> 00:39:17,367
towards the kind of normalization
that the North Koreans seemed to want.
550
00:39:17,434 --> 00:39:18,835
(IN KOREAN)
Ask her if she's having a pleasant time.
551
00:39:18,902 --> 00:39:20,937
(IN ENGLISH)
Uh, do you spend a pleasant time, yes?
552
00:39:21,004 --> 00:39:23,139
I did. I danced today.
553
00:39:23,206 --> 00:39:27,077
-(CHEERING)
-(FIREWORKS BOOM)
554
00:39:27,143 --> 00:39:29,079
REPORTER: Kim Jong-Il brought Albright
555
00:39:29,145 --> 00:39:32,215
to an elaborate performance
in a stadium in Pyongyang
556
00:39:32,282 --> 00:39:34,651
to honor him and his Workers' Party.
557
00:39:35,886 --> 00:39:37,787
CHARLES KARTMAN: And then,
there's the cards and all of that,
558
00:39:37,854 --> 00:39:41,758
and one of the cards had a missile
being shot up,
559
00:39:41,825 --> 00:39:45,395
and Kim Jong-Il turns
to Madeleine Albright and said,
560
00:39:45,462 --> 00:39:49,766
"Well, this is... can be the last one."
561
00:39:49,833 --> 00:39:52,469
And, uh, "Yeah, I hope so."
562
00:39:52,969 --> 00:39:55,972
NARRATOR: But as time runs out
on the Clinton presidency,
563
00:39:56,039 --> 00:40:00,010
the hoped-for peace summit
between the two countries never happens.
564
00:40:01,611 --> 00:40:02,946
(SIREN WAILS)
565
00:40:03,013 --> 00:40:06,049
Neither side will ever know
what could have been.
566
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,188
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
567
00:40:12,255 --> 00:40:14,558
WOMAN: Oh, my God! Oh, my God.
568
00:40:14,624 --> 00:40:17,027
NARRATOR: With President Bush
in the White House,
569
00:40:17,093 --> 00:40:21,831
9/11 triggers a cascade of events
with consequences for the entire globe.
570
00:40:23,066 --> 00:40:27,304
GEORGE W. BUSH: As we gather tonight,
our nation is at war
571
00:40:27,370 --> 00:40:31,474
and the civilized world faces
unprecedented dangers.
572
00:40:31,541 --> 00:40:34,211
North Korea is a regime arming
with missiles
573
00:40:34,277 --> 00:40:39,149
and weapons of mass destruction
while starving its citizens.
574
00:40:39,216 --> 00:40:42,953
States like these,
and their terrorist allies,
575
00:40:43,019 --> 00:40:45,622
constitute an axis of evil.
576
00:40:45,689 --> 00:40:48,692
Bush put North Korea
into the axis of evil,
577
00:40:48,758 --> 00:40:52,195
along with Iran and Iraq,
in his famous State of the Union address.
578
00:40:52,262 --> 00:40:56,733
So, I think the North Koreans
were not at all confident
579
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,437
about the prospects
for dealing with the United States.
580
00:41:05,141 --> 00:41:09,179
REPORTER: Tonight, the world's attention
is absolutely fixed on Iraq.
581
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:16,319
The U.S. gave the regime its first taste
of a strategy called "shock and awe".
582
00:41:16,386 --> 00:41:18,154
(MISSILE BLASTS)
583
00:41:19,856 --> 00:41:22,058
MIKE CHINOY: The invasion of Iraq
would have been
584
00:41:22,125 --> 00:41:26,129
a very unsettling development
for North Korea.
585
00:41:26,630 --> 00:41:29,766
Saddam Hussein didn't have
nuclear weapons.
586
00:41:29,833 --> 00:41:31,635
Look what happened to him.
587
00:41:31,701 --> 00:41:34,504
We are not going to let that happen
to Kim Jong-Il.
588
00:41:34,571 --> 00:41:37,507
(MAN SPEAKING KOREAN)
589
00:41:58,161 --> 00:41:59,963
(EXPLOSION)
590
00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:04,668
REPORTER:
Until this morning, around the world,
591
00:42:04,734 --> 00:42:07,938
eight countries were known
to have nuclear weapons.
592
00:42:08,004 --> 00:42:10,941
Now, we must add North Korea
to that list.
593
00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:15,679
MIKE CHINOY: Once that test
had taken place, everything changed.
594
00:42:16,179 --> 00:42:19,449
You can't ever go back, you've done it.
595
00:42:20,417 --> 00:42:23,286
They'd shown the U.S.,
"You can't intimidate us."
596
00:42:24,321 --> 00:42:29,125
The stakes became much higher,
the situation became much more dangerous.
597
00:42:29,192 --> 00:42:31,094
North Korea had a bomb.
598
00:42:32,128 --> 00:42:36,499
I'm very much proud of our scientists
and the researchers
599
00:42:36,566 --> 00:42:40,103
who have conducted
such a very, very successful
600
00:42:40,170 --> 00:42:43,206
nuclear underground test.
601
00:42:43,273 --> 00:42:44,441
REPORTER: Will there be any more?
602
00:42:45,442 --> 00:42:47,744
That will be enough. You don't think so?
603
00:42:49,546 --> 00:42:51,615
MIKE CHINOY:
A lot of these key turning points,
604
00:42:51,681 --> 00:42:52,983
there's a give and take.
605
00:42:53,049 --> 00:42:56,019
It's not Kim Jong-Il rolling out of bed
606
00:42:56,086 --> 00:42:58,488
after a night swilling cognac
with his pals, saying,
607
00:42:58,555 --> 00:43:00,557
"Oh, let's just stage
a nuclear test today."
608
00:43:00,624 --> 00:43:04,661
Even though that's the comic strip
caricature that a lot of people have.
609
00:43:05,962 --> 00:43:08,565
WILLIAM PERRY: They've been smart,
and they've been ruthless...
610
00:43:09,065 --> 00:43:13,803
and they've been single-minded
on their overarching goal,
611
00:43:13,870 --> 00:43:19,175
which is to preserve the Kim dynasty,
to keep the regime in power.
612
00:43:23,413 --> 00:43:27,717
REPORTER: The health news is not good
for North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
613
00:43:28,652 --> 00:43:31,388
The ailing Communist leader
suffered a serious setback
614
00:43:31,454 --> 00:43:33,089
and has been hospitalized.
615
00:43:46,770 --> 00:43:51,775
JEAN LEE: He appeared looking very gaunt.
He had suffered a stroke.
616
00:43:51,841 --> 00:43:54,611
He had a pronounced limp.
617
00:43:54,678 --> 00:43:57,113
It was clear that he wasn't well.
618
00:43:57,948 --> 00:44:00,417
And so, that's when we started
to see the signs
619
00:44:00,483 --> 00:44:03,053
that a succession campaign was underway.
620
00:44:05,322 --> 00:44:09,859
NARRATOR: The dynasty that had ruled
North Korea for over 60 years
621
00:44:09,926 --> 00:44:13,663
was about to introduce
the third generation to the people.
622
00:44:15,198 --> 00:44:16,499
(CHEERING)
623
00:44:16,566 --> 00:44:20,403
On the balcony overlooking
Kim Il-Sung Square,
624
00:44:20,470 --> 00:44:23,707
the chosen son, Kim Jong-Un.
625
00:44:26,176 --> 00:44:28,211
JEAN LEE: It's been clear,
watching Kim Jong-Un,
626
00:44:28,278 --> 00:44:31,848
that he is a young man
who has known for a long time
627
00:44:31,915 --> 00:44:33,850
that he had a very specific role to play.
628
00:44:41,458 --> 00:44:45,662
ADAM JOHNSON: Fujimoto-san told me,
DVD nights were a big thing.
629
00:44:45,729 --> 00:44:48,765
This particular night, um,
Kim Jong-Un is there, and he's 11,
630
00:44:48,832 --> 00:44:51,501
and they watch a, a movie called
In the Line of Fire,
631
00:44:51,568 --> 00:44:52,936
starring Clint Eastwood.
632
00:44:55,171 --> 00:44:59,276
There's a scene where there
are four Secret Service members
633
00:44:59,342 --> 00:45:03,747
and they're all walking with their
hands on the body of the limousine.
634
00:45:04,247 --> 00:45:05,949
Kim Jong-Il says, "Stop.
635
00:45:06,016 --> 00:45:08,552
This is how you must protect me.
You must have my hands here.
636
00:45:08,618 --> 00:45:10,387
This is how I want to be protected."
637
00:45:11,521 --> 00:45:13,757
(GUNSHOTS BLAST)
638
00:45:20,797 --> 00:45:23,567
REPORTER: North Korean leader
Kim Jong-Il is dead.
639
00:45:23,633 --> 00:45:25,936
Kim suffered a heart attack
due to the, quote,
640
00:45:26,002 --> 00:45:28,238
"Great mental and physical strain
641
00:45:28,305 --> 00:45:32,042
caused by his uninterrupted building
of a thriving nation."
642
00:45:41,484 --> 00:45:45,121
(MAN SPEAKING IN KOREAN)
643
00:45:57,934 --> 00:46:00,303
(WAILING, SOBBING)
644
00:46:01,238 --> 00:46:05,308
ADAM JOHNSON: When we saw the footage
of Kim Jong-Il's funeral procession
645
00:46:05,375 --> 00:46:08,545
down those cold snowy streets
of Pyongyang,
646
00:46:08,612 --> 00:46:12,148
well, there was the coffin
on the top of the limousine
647
00:46:12,215 --> 00:46:15,819
exactly as portrayed
in In the Line of Fire.
648
00:46:15,886 --> 00:46:18,521
with Kim Jong-Un with his hand
in the position
649
00:46:18,588 --> 00:46:19,990
that Clint Eastwood was walking in.
650
00:46:23,193 --> 00:46:28,598
You're talking about three generations
of omnipotent, powerful people.
651
00:46:31,968 --> 00:46:34,771
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