02/07/03 ONLINE / DUBBING SCRIPT: The Real Dr Evil ARCHIVE KIM JONG IL 0.19 This man is in charge of a nuclear state. 0.29 George Bush says he loathes him. He believes he’s running a terrorist regime. ARCHIVE SYNC BUSH States like these constitute an Axis of Evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. ARC The press have dubbed him Dr Evil. 0.45 No-one can predict what he’ll do next. So what can the strange story of Kim Jong Il tell us about America’s new Public Enemy Number One? TITLE: ‘The Real Dr Evil’ ARC KIS & KJI AT MILITARY PARADE 1.11 North Korea. April 1992. 1.18 Something remarkable was about to happen in the secretive Stalinist state. 1.24 It was the 80th birthday of the dictator, Kim Il Sung. But for once, he was not the centre of attention. 1.34 Instead, all eyes were on his little-known son and heir, Kim Jong Il. Today, North Koreans would hear the voice of their future leader for the first time. UPSYNC KIM JONG IL Subtitle “Glory to the People’s heroic military!” V/O KIM DUK HONG When Kim Jong ll came to power he became a God like his father. UPSYNC SHOUTS SYNC KIM DUK HONG former Central Committee worker Father and son were the life-givers, the true parents of all Koreans. We were required to believe this and to show complete obedience. ARC 2.13 The younger Kim always struggled to live up to the image of his father - the guerrilla fighter, who founded the nation. 2.23 Kim Jong Il could make no such boasts. His only claim to the throne was hereditary. SYNC SELIG HARRISON Author: Korean Endgame Kim Jong Il just doesn’t have the aura that his father Kim Il Sung did. People were prepared to believe almost everything about Kim Il Sung because of the circumstance of the way he came to power …. ARC b/w Kim Il Sung … Kim Il Sung was the George Washington of his country, who fought the Japanese and who saved North Korea from the Americans in the Korean War, and so …. SYNC HARRISON … The problem with Kim Jong Il is that he’s never really liked politics the way his father did, so they have to build up images and myths around him that are a substitute for the fact that he just isn’t as commanding a politician. ARCHIVE FILM TITLE 3.05 Myths such as ‘The Great General From Heaven’ 3.12 This propaganda film tells the story of Kim’s birth on the most sacred mountain in Korea. 3.24 It was a fitting birth for a man worshipped as divine. UPSYNC VOICE over text Subtitle In Korea was born on Mount Paektu the brightest star. SYNC LEE YOUNG GUK North Korean defector We all believed that Kim Jong Il was a genius from heaven. We had to recite this hundreds and thousand of times. VYATSKOE 3.50 In fact, Kim Jong Il’s beginnings were more humble. 3.53 He was born a thousand miles to the north in the Russian Far East. It was 1942. 4.02 His father’s independence army was on the run from the Japanese who occupied Korea. 4.08 Kim Il Sung and his followers took refuge in this remote Siberian village. 4.13 His son, Kim Jong Il, grew up amongst the partisans plotting their return to Korea. STILL SYNC AUGUSTA SERGEYEVNA VARDUGINA He was a young kid then and he was always playing over there in the river. It was like a beautiful beach in those times. The kids all used to dig holes in the sand. STILL KIDS ON STAIRS 4.37 The villagers also remember Kim’s younger brother who died in childhood. ACT SYNC ANATOLY GRIGORIEVICH KOROGLYAKOV subtitle This is where they buried Kim Jong Il’s brother GRAVES 4.55 According to memoirs by North Korean defectors, the two brothers were playing in water. The younger one got out of his depth and drowned. SYNC JERROLD POST - Former Director CIA Profiling centre The … stories ,,, were that young Kim was amused at his brother going ‘glub, glub, glub’ trying to get back from the deep part of the pool… In one of these stories, it’s actually related that he kept pushing his brother’s head under. STILL KJI KID SALUTING SYNC JERROLD POST – This had to have had a profound impact upon his psychology….. especially if he was guilty of carrying this out. And for most people where there’s been… something like this … in boyhood …. It leads to major conflict in the area of aggression. STILL KJI IN SAILOR SUIT .. that of course is one of the very worrisome aspects of the man. FADE TO BLACK ARC KIS 1948 5.51 When his father took power in the Russian-controlled north of Korea, Kim was just six years old. ARC KOREAN WAR UP SYNC fx bombs 6.00 Two years later Kim Il Sung invaded the South and started the Korean War. The conflict drew in the world’s superpowers - Russia & China with the North; the United States supporting the South. 6.15 Civilian deaths from American carpet bombing numbered over two million. ARC FLATTENED PYONGYANG 6.22 After 3 years, the war ended in stalemate, leaving North and South Korea sworn enemies. ARC KIS 50s 6.28 Bankrolled by both Russia and China, Kim Il Sung inspired the North Koreans in a remarkable feat of reconstruction. 6.37 He became The Great Leader, deified by his people. A Father to his Nation – but not, it seems, to his son. SYNC POST Despite the stories in the official biography of this being the most magnificent of families and raising the most magnificent of sons, in fact his father was really apparently quite distant, STILL KJI at high school …. and he spent very little time with his father during much of his boyhood, as … Kim Il Sung was preoccupied with building a nation. STILLS KJI STUDENT 7.11 While ordinary Koreans toiled, Kim Jong Il lived in one of his father’s many palaces and studied at the university named after him. SYNC KIM DUK HONG – Administrator Kim Il Sung University He always sat at the back of the class ….his attendance record was bad … and when he did come to lectures he was usually late and left before the lesson was over … as for his graduation thesis … there was a professor of Politics and Economics, he was the department’s party secretary and everyone knew that it was this Professor who wrote the first draft of Kim’s thesis STILL KJI 7.54 Kim graduated in 1964 and got a job in his father’s Workers’ Party, with special responsibility for his first passion - film, theatre and the arts. ARC 70s 8.12 By the 1970s, North Korea was a totalitarian state. Dissent was ruthlessly suppressed. Thousands were imprisoned. ARC KIS 8.22 Although a communist, Kim Il Sung ruled more like a medieval Korean monarch. And like a monarch he needed an heir. SUNSET KOREAN ROOF 8.39 Within the ruling family, there was an almighty battle for the succession. 8.46 Favourites included Kim Jong Il’s uncle and his half-brother. STILL 2 shot KIS & KJI 8.51 But in 1974 the Great Leader shocked his family by picking his son, Kim Jong Il, as his chosen heir. From now on he would be known as the Dear Leader. It was not a popular choice. SYNC KIM DUK HONG He wasn’t taken seriously - he was regarded as the black sheep of the family. No-one thought that Kim Jong Il would become leader V/O & SYNC HARRISON There were tensions within the ruling family itself … and there were tensions within the ruling Workers Party because the idea of a dynastic succession was repugnant to good Communists. 9.41 Thrown overnight into the cloak and dagger world of North Korean power politics, Kim had to learn fast. V/O & SYNC HARRISON (Parallel forces) because he had opposition from the old guard of the Workers’ Party, KJI tried from the beginning to build up parallel forces that were almost rivals to the regular Workers’ Party organisation: socialist youth league, the so-called three-revolutionary teams which were kind of like the Red Guard in China. …so he built up a parallel structure that he hoped would give him a base. STILL 10.15 Paranoid about threats from jealous relatives and disaffected members of the party, Kim formed his own elite corps of bodyguards. SYNC LEE YOUNG GUK Former Bodyguard Kim Jong Il insisted we must be ready to die for him. We were not to take orders from anyone else. SECURITY LIGHTS / CHANDELIERS 10.38 Lee’s job was to guard Kim at one of his many luxury villas. SYNC LEE YOUNG GUK People say Saddam’s palaces are grand, but they’re nothing… C/A SEA ON ROCKS If he wants to swim in seawater, they pump it in. At his villa there are many ladies - they call them his doctor, his nurse, his secretary, but basically they’re just his playthings. ARC TAEKWONDO 11.12 Training for the bodyguards was intense, as this previously unseen footage shows. UPSYNC fx SYNC LEE YOUNG GUK From the minute you wake up, he makes you hit stuff continuously. UPSYNC fx once I remember doing eleven bricks at a time …. [laughs] ARC KIM WITH PISTOL 11.54 Above all, Kim was obsessive about shooting practice. 12.00 The guards were expected to hit 8 targets a minute…. 12.04 …. each through the heart. SYNC LEE GUK Kim Jong Il joined in sometimes. He shoots like this - (action) - not like this. He’s good, very good. He used to say shooting is not about theory. Practice makes perfect. BOAT RECON 12.34 At one of his seaside villas, Kim’s theories were put into practice. SYNC LEE GUK there was a 10-mile cordon round the villa … some fishermen drifted in by mistake …we told them to leave, but they couldn’t hear us over the crashing waves …We shot them both dead …. It was the first time our unit killed someone and we were all in shock. STILL KJI V/O LEE YOUNG GUK But Kim Jong Il said ‘Well done. I shall reward your loyalty’. We were all given medals. As for the fishermen’s families, they were told they died at sea and each given a refrigerator and a colour TV. STILL KJI 13.31 It was not long before Kim’s killer instincts grew more ambitious. SPY SHOTS 13.45 For years his father, Kim Il Sung had harboured hopes of re- uniting Korea - on his terms. 13.53 In the early 1980s he changed his tactics. The undermining and eventual overthrow of South Korea would be implemented by a series of secret operations. 14.05 In charge - Kim Jong Il. Nothing was ruled out. SYNC KIM DUK HONG When it comes to the orchestration of terror, Kim Jong Il is a natural born genius. SPY RECONS & Fast jump cut to ROOM 35 14.26 The activities were co-ordinated by the Party’s most secret intelligence organ, known mysteriously as Room 35. 14.35 Through Room 35 Kim Jong Il created a network of agents who could operate all over the world. SYNC KIM DUK HONG Room 35 spies had permanent residency in foreign countries….. they would provide cover and funds when agents travelled abroad on terrorist missions. V/O AN MYUNG JIN A spy should be able to do anything inside enemy territory SYNC AN MYUNG JIN Former North Korean spy - encouraging South Koreans to defect to the North, kidnapping generals, members of parliament or students, blowing up targets - we were a tool for making all Korea communist. STILL KJI 15.21 In 1983 Kim and his agents from Room 35 saw their chance. PAGODA 15.28 On October the ninth, the Burmese capital, Rangoon, became a target for international terrorism. QUICK FADES TO/FROM BLACK 15.36 Seven members of the South Korean cabinet were there to pay respects to a local hero. 15.43 As they waited for their President to arrive – they were unaware that they were being watched by 3 North Korean agents. UPSYNC EXPLOSION FX 16.00 The bomb had been placed on the roof two days earlier. 16.05 Twenty-one people were killed including 4 of the South Korean cabinet. 16.14 North Korea denied they were involved, but one of the agents was captured by Burmese police and confessed. SYNC KIM DUK HONG It is an open secret that Kim Jong Il directly ordered the bombing in Rangoon. SYNC AN MYUNG JIN North Korea does not regard terrorism as a crime - it’s an essential tool for completing the revolution. RECON PLANE TRACK 16.46 Four years later Kim was at it again - determined to bring down his father’s enemy. ARC WEEPING RELATIVES 16.59 115 people were killed when a South Korean passenger jet exploded in mid-air. 17.08 It emerged that two North Korean agents had earlier travelled on the plane on false passports and planted a bomb. ARC AGENT COMING DOWN STEPS 17.14 One of them was Kim Hyong Hee. She was arrested after trying to swallow a suicide capsule. 17.22 Later she claimed her orders came in a note hand-written by Kim Jong Il. ARC KIM JONG IL’S DESK 17.30 Kim’s act earned North Korea an instant place on the US list of states sponsoring terror. FADE TO BLACK ARC OPERA/THEATRE 17.55 While Kim plotted murder, he still found time for his first love - the arts. He produced operas and films and wrote books on the theory of art. He invented North Korea’s trademark mass displays. ARC V/O TO SYNC LEE YOUNG GUK We were taught to believe that Kim Jong Il is a genius - in architecture, philosophy and art. ARC KIM 18.22 But Kim was a frustrated ‘genius’. He believed North Korean art had much to learn from the West. ABSTRACT SPY SHOT 18.33 In 1978 the two sides of Kim Jong Il - artist and terrorist - combined in a kidnapping that has never been fully understood. STILL CHOE & MONROE 18.44 Choe Eun Hee was one of South Korea’s most famous film stars. SPY SHOT 18.53 On a business trip to Hong Kong, she was lured to a rendezvous by North Korean agents posing as film financiers. 19.02 She was drugged …. and woke up on a boat. V/O TO SYNC CHOE EUN HEE - Film Actress Inside the boat was a portrait of Kim Jong Il and whenever I saw it I felt like fainting … As I was helped off the boat I heard a voice say ‘Welcome, my name is Kim Jong Il’. My heart sank - I realised I really was in North Korea. STILLS KJI & CHOE on pier b/w 19.30 With a characteristic sense of drama, Kim had brought a photographer to record the moment. NIGHT TRACK ALONG WALL STILLS KNITTING 19.39 Choe was taken to live in one of Kim’s villas. It would be 8 years before she would see her home again. SYNC CHOE I was kept in total seclusion. It was a prison without bars STILL 19.57 In the early years, Choe’s isolation was only ever broken by occasional invitations from Kim….. ARC KJI on boat 20.05 …. a trip on his speedboat at one of his private lakes. SYNC CHOE Speedboat As we got on the boat he had some drinks and he took the controls himself. He was speeding and driving in a zig-zag motion. I thought the boat was about to flip over - that’s how wild he was. STILL KJI & CHOE V/O TO SYNC CHOE The first time I went to his house he came to the door to greet me. I was in a foul mood and he tried to lighten my spirits. He said ‘Madame Choe look at me’, he turned around and said ‘don’t I like look a midget’s turd? (laughs) ARC PYONG YANG NIGHT LIGHTS 20.53 Over the next few years Kim introduced Choe to the high-life North Korean-style…. STILL SNAKEWINE 21.02 …. A special liqueur bottled with a live snake…. ROULETTE 21.08 …. cognac-filled gambling parties at his Palaces…. RECON BLACKJACK 21.12 … and winner-take-all black jack. SYNC CHOE He thought he could do anything he wanted. He wasn’t humble or shy, but rather always boasting and showing off. 21.33 But there was one thing Kim wasn’t telling Choe. He’d also kidnapped her film director husband, who had come looking for her after she disappeared. BARBED WIRE TRACK BROWN / BLUE 21.45 Shin Sang Ok repeatedly tried to escape from North Korea. After 4 years in Kim’s brutal prisons, he gave up and reluctantly agreed to work for Kim Jong Il. SYNC SHIN SANG OK - South Korean film director I had to lie all the time. If I hadn’t, people would not have trusted me. I felt guilty, but it was the only way out for me. TAPE RECORDER 22.15 In a conversation - secretly taped by Shin and Choe - Kim confessed to the kidnap. subtitle I said ‘Let’s pick up Mr Shin.’ But bringing a man is difficult … … so I said let’s bring his wife first. 22.35 And then he gave his motives. subtitle Our movies are rubbish. But if I tell our filmmakers this… … they wonder why am I so cross with them. SYNC SHIN Kim Jong Il was like any ordinary young man. He liked action movies, sex movies, horror movies. He liked all the women that most men like, he liked James Bond… STILL KIM & COUPLE 23.13 After keeping them apart for five years, Kim brought the couple together again. 23.18 With his backing, Shin and Choe built Asia’s biggest film studio. 23.25 It cost over $40 million to build. CLIP RUNAWAY 23.33 The high-point of their collaboration was this story of Socialist redemption set in Japanese-occupied Korea. 23.43 The title was Runaway. Executive Producer: Kim Jong Il. STILL SHIN & CHOE & KJI 23.51 After 9 years in captivity Shin and Choe became runaways themselves. 23.57 On a trip to Europe, they defected into the open arms of the CIA, which was grateful for any information about their former film boss - the Dear Leader. SYNC SHIN money & freedom If North Korea was like Eastern Europe, we might not have escaped. But because of the personality cult we couldn’t stay there. How could we bow down before his image? STILL KJI & KIS ICONS ARC MARCHING PARADE 24.27 While Kim Jong Il fiddled with his artistic passions, his father watched his country falling apart. The Cold War was over and Russia was no longer able to bankroll the North Koreans. 24.44 Running a million man army that was still technically at war with South Korea and America had become exorbitant. So the elder Kim decided to go for a less expensive option. ARC YONGBYON 25.00 In 1982, the Russians had installed this nuclear plant at Yongbyon - for civilian purposes - or so they thought. 25.10 But later, Kim Il Sung secretly converted the plant to reprocessing plutonium - for something else. SYNC CHARLES KARTMAN - US State Department I think they actually wanted nuclear weapons partly because it was a prestige project and they seem to be very fascinated by prestige projects, partly because it’s a way you make other countries take you seriously…. ARC ARMAGEDDON GUNFIRE / YONGBYON SATELLITE/ SEOUL CITYSCAPES 25.33 By 1994 the rest of the world was taking North Korea’s nuclear programme very seriously indeed. Bill Clinton considered a military strike on Yongbyon. But with 11,000 pieces of North Korean artillery trained on the South’s capital Seoul, it seemed a high risk strategy. SYNC KARTMAN military analysts thought that a full-scale war on the Korean peninsula could end up certainly with the total defeat of NK but as many as 1 million casualties in South Korea and as many as 100,000 American military casualties … and of course, the economic costs would be catastrophic. SLO-MO SEOUL PEOPLE GVs 26.24 For the first time since the Korean War a full-scale conflict on the peninsula looked a possibility. SYNC KARTMAN We were …organising for the possibility that we’d have to suddenly do a large-scale evacuation of civilians … something that was of a magnitude that we had no experience with. In fact, the more we looked at it the more it started to look like something that would be of the order of Dunkirk. ARC 26.57 As Clinton weighed up his options, Kim Il Sung was meeting with a previous US President. 27.04 Jimmy Carter had come to North Korea to persuade the elder Kim to freeze his plutonium programme. 27.12 After 3 days of talks, a breakthrough. Kim agreed to a freeze in return for economic assistance. 27.23 War had been averted. There was an air of cautious optimism … 27.30 …but not for long. FADE TO BLACK ARC FUNERAL KJI WALKS IN 27.43 In 1994 the Father of the Nation died. Its Dear Leader was now in charge. He’d been expected to make the funeral speech. 27.57 But as usual he remained silent. 27.59 The nation, however, was not so restrained. CROWDS GO BESERK UPSYNC NK REPORTER subtitles among the wailing of the heartbroken people comes the hearse bearing our father, the Great Leader. ARC KIM OUTSIDE 28.26 After 20 years in the shadow of his father, Kim Jong Il now assumed total control. 28.36 It was the Communist world’s first dynastic handover. SYNC WENDY SHERMAN US State Department 1994 People were very concerned and I think it added to the sense that NK was going to collapse because they believed that KJI didn’t have the presence or the stature of his father, didn’t have actually the security of the regime to do the kind of things his father appeared to have been ready to do. ARC KJI AT FUNERAL SYNC DON GREGG Former US Ambassador to South Korea the collective feeling was, oh my gosh, what are we going to be dealing with now? Is the son going to be worse than the father? Is he some kind of North Korean Caligula? ARC KJI PINS MEDALS 29.21 With little backing from the Workers’ Party, Kim looked to the army for support. He reshuffled the top brass, putting in nearly a thousand of his own appointees, who would enjoy the fruits of power - and still do. SYNC SELIG HARRISON - Center for International Policy, Washington DC He does play the game with them … he gives them a lot of economic gravy, some of the generals in the army are the heads of some of the big conglomerates in North Korea, so they’re sharing the economic spoils of power, control over the exports of their raw materials: gold, manganese, iron. ARC ARMY EXERCISES 29.59 But Kim kept his generals busy - his army were constantly on exercise - flexing their muscles for all the world to see. 30.10 And whilst he signed the nuclear freeze his father had agreed with Jimmy Carter, he secretly put in place another, more disturbing plan. SAT HAGAP 30.20 This satellite image shows an underground facility that has never been fully explained by the North Koreans. The CIA believe it may be a site where Kim secretly resumed his nuclear weapons programme - this time using highly enriched uranium. SYNC KIM DUK HONG We chose it for two reasons. Firstly, a uranium 235 bomb can be easily made. Secondly, the negotiations with the Americans had only been about reprocessing plutonium. That’s why we went with uranium 235. KJI & ARMY 31.03 It was Kim’s reliance on the military that prompted him to resume the nuclear programme. SYNC KIM DUK HONG 5: nuke survival If Kim Jong Il gives up nuclear weapons, then he will lose the support of the people in his inner circle of power. Then it’s only a matter of time before his leadership collapses. ARC WFP 31.33 Meanwhile his citizens suffered in silence. The economy all but collapsed. A series of natural disasters made matters even worse. 31.47 Up to 2 million are thought to have died from hunger in the 1990s. 31.52 Children bore the brunt of famine. Kim called it a ‘food shortage’. SYNC SHERMAN KJI believes that the poverty of his country is because they’ve had drought, …. that they have been oppressed by the outside world, …. that the US has threatened the security of their country and so therefore they have had to put resources into the military. So he does not take responsibility for what has occurred. ARC WFP 32.25 Kim Jong Il had no option but to open up his isolated country to the West. If not, the economy would collapse and with it, his hold on power. PYONGYANG TRACKS music STILLS BAELI 32.49 An Italian businessman became the first Westerner to meet Kim face to face. 32.55 Carlo Baeli was invited to his private yacht to finalise a multi- million dollar investment in the country’s untapped goldmines. SYNC CARLO BAELI Businessman The collapse of the communist world meant that North Korea had to find other outlets … Because previously most of their business had been with the Soviet Union. But we found them very enthusiastic indeed about opening up to the West. STILLS 33.29 Kim was in a conciliatory mood, revealing a surprising attitude to his old enemy, the United States. SYNC CARLO BAELI I didn’t have the impression that he felt any great hatred against the Americans … He said that Americans after all were men, just like Koreans. He thought that if an administration could enter into dialogue with North Korea, then many problems would be solved. His feelings were good, I’d say. ARC ALBRIGHT 34.03 Finally in 2000 Kim Jong Il did the unthinkable. The American Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright came to Pyongyang for direct negotiations. With her, a team of special envoys. SYNC SHERMAN the purpose of the meetings was to try to see whether in fact we could get the outlines of a verifiable agreement for them to eliminate their whole classes of missiles and…. if we could make enough progress, then President Bill Clinton was going to consider a trip to Pyongyang to seal an agreement. SYNC KARTMAN Up until that point no American had ever met Kim Jong Il. The reports that we had about him had left open some questions about whether he was a serious person who was operating in the same universe as other world leaders were. SYNC SHERMAN we were taken to the guest house where he meets people and he came in with lights flashing because we had a brought a press corps …. He walked in actually with his own small press corps including people with old-fashioned movie cameras out of the 50s, so it was a little bit surreal. SYNC KARTMAN Those of us who were with her were all constantly watching and waiting to see which Kim Jong Il is it going to be? The bad Kim Jong Il or the good Kim Jong Il? SYNC SHERMAN (we) found him to be a rational man…. he had a sense of humour; he was informed by the outside world - he watches CNN, he goes on the Internet …. Above all, he is a supremely confident man, I think, which one would be in a country where you have such complete and utter control. ARC STADIUM 35.55 Once more, it was the turn of Kim - the great director. SYNC & V/O SHERMAN for a solid 5 or 10 minutes the crowd is cheering Kim Jong Il’s name, now it has to do something to your head …. To have this display of acrobatics, of dance, of flip-cards, of revolutionary slogans and pictures, to really feel you’re on top of the world and that you’re showing the Secretary of State of the USA the strength and power and resolve …. of your country. So it was quite a moment for him ….. ARC ON KJI IN STADIUM it was a difficult moment for us because here were all these people, well- dressed, performing in a country whose economy has collapsed, where people have no food, where they don’t have the basic necessities of life …. And clearly Kim Jong Il had used the resources, precious resources of the country to put on this grand exhibition. ARC DINNER 37.00 But the Americans left Pyongyang thinking that Kim Jong Il was a man they could do business with. 37.07 A visit by the US President looked a near certain prospect. FREEZE clink fx ARC BUSH 20 FEB 2002 at DMZ 37.18 But not this President. George Bush has said he loathes Kim Jong Il, he’s called him a pygmy. It’s even been said he wants Kim’s head on a platter. ARC BUSH @ DMZ “…. we should not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most dangerous weapons” 37.39 His Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, calls North Korea ‘a terrorist regime - teetering on the verge of collapse’ and recommends toppling Kim Jong Il. 37.51 An agreement between the two countries has never seemed less likely. SYNC RICHARD PERLE former Bush advisor (worthless assurance) There are governments with whom we can exchange assurances with some confidence that that they will be met on both sides. The government of Kim Jong Il is not one of those and an assurance from Kim Jong Il would not be worth the paper it’s written on. ARC KJI RECENT + HUGGING 38.18 Last year, as American hostility mounted, Kim Jong Il desperately searched for other escape routes for his crumbling economy. 38.29 He went to China. He tried the Russians. But the best bet, he thought, would be reparations from Korea’s former colonial master - Japan. SYNC SHERMAN quite frankly the real pot of gold economically for North Korea is Japan - should they ever get to an agreement much like Japan did with South Korea there would probably be as much as ten billion dollars that would be accessible for North Korea ARC SEA BATTLE 38.57 But relations between the countries have hardly been cordial in recent times. 39.03 North Korean spy ships have often infiltrated Japanese waters. 39.10 To extract money from Japan, Kim believed he would have to make an apology of his own. ARC KOIZUMI 39.18 It would mean confronting his own dark past - as terrorist and kidnapper. 39.24 At a summit with the Japanese Prime Minister, Kim made an extraordinary admission. RECON SPY STUFF 39.34 He said that during the 1970s and eighties, his agents had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens. 39.42 The operations had been run by his shadowy unit Room 35. 39.49 The Japanese had been used to teach Kim’s spies how to pass undetected in the West. GFX MEGUMI 39.56 One of them was Megumi Yokota, kidnapped 25 years ago from a beach in northern Japan. She was just 13 years old. BEACH V/O & SYNC SAKIE YOKOTA She left school with three friends and they each went their own way. She was on her own. The police dog traced her to the corner very close to our house right next to the sea. But after that, all trace of her disappeared like a puff of smoke. BEACH 40.38 What happened to Megumi only became clear twenty years later. A North Korean spy defected - bringing with him her story from the agent who had abducted her. SYNC AN MYUNG JIN He knocked her out and tied her up in the ship’s storage room. There was vomit everywhere. He said she scratched the sides with her nails screaming for her mother and she was seasick. Her nails were pulled out, there was blood from her fingers all over the walls and urine on the floor. KIM/NEON SEQUENCE 41.16 Kim stopped short of admitting personal responsibility. And he claimed the abductions were the result of over-zealous intelligence agents, who had since been punished. But was Kim being economical with the truth? SYNC AN MYUNG JIN It was actually done on the orders of Kim Jong Il. He didn’t use the word ‘kidnap’. He simply asked us to bring back foreigners and educate them. He even wrote it in our textbook. MEGUMI 41.45 Megumi taught for 15 years at the Pyongyang spy academy until 1993 when she committed suicide. V/O & SYNC MRS YOKOTA For the sake of this one twisted personality, not only the people of his country but innocent foreigners like us have been suffered. ARC KIM I really think he is abnormal. KJI SURROUNDED BY PICTURES 42.14 Kim’s admission was a spectacular miscalculation. Instead of getting billions in aid, he is now being called to account for yet more missing Japanese. ARC PODIUM 42.26 It’s forcing him to look for other ways to get the world’s attention. He’s back to the old game of nuclear brinksmanship. Kim now says that not only has he got nuclear weapons, he’s prepared to sell them to anyone who will pay - unless George Bush gives him a guarantee he won’t be attacked. The question is: is he bluffing? SYNC SHIN SANG OK Because he has absolute power, it’s hard to say whether he’s smart or not … but he is impulsive, he decides everything very quickly. And because he is a dictator nobody can say no. SYNC KIM DUK HONG The nuclear programme is his survival strategy. He’ll never give it up, if he says he will and invites the inspectors to watch him destroy his facilities, he will be lying. SYNC SHERMAN There is no doubt that if he believes that he must have… nuclear weapons, that it is the worst outcome for the rest of the world. And I think we are at a point where NK is really playing all bets COMM 43.35 Is Kim’s nuclear programme a genuine deterrent or is it his way of bringing America to the negotiating table? 43.44 Either way - the time for talk is fast running out. 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