Weapons Taikwondo cue after wide at 10.00.24 10.00.29 10.00.40 10.00.44 North Korea feels deeply hurt. It’s the innocent victim of a terrible slander . “Axis of evil” reverb It needs its nuclear weapons for self-defence Against an enemy attack. Car 10.00. 49 So They’ve asked us in to tell their side – in the propaganda war between Washington and Pyongyang. Fuel rods 10.00.57 But how do you measure evil? Is it in the plutonium? Or somewhere else – so secret – no visitor can ever go? Kh sync The experiment goes on until the last person dies. The scientists watch the entire process from above through the glass. 10.01.23 Chemical experiments on humans. Is this the true evil at the heart of this regime? . Title Access to Evil (The Last Fortress) Band and music Music FXs Band workers 10.01.48 singers workers 10.01.54 Welcome to North Korea. Leave everything you ever though you knew behind. Pyongyang its capital, is a paradise set to music. Camera on little girls 02.07 Girls Cue at 02.21 This Hermit Kingdom’s been isolated too long. It needs new friends. A small window is opening on this last Stalinist Utopia Women It reveals a vibrant city with crowds constantly celebrating – something. The sheer joy, perhaps of living in this cocoon. Sunset in river Monument Human traffic light 02.45 Boy in military hat It’s an obedient city, a city of the young and healthy, a city on show for visitors. Kim statue Kim close upcue at 02.59 The Eternal President of this country Kim Il Sung - is dead. Wide pan cue at 03.07 His body lies here at the Jusuk Palace – first stop for every foreigner. And compulsory in every sense. North Koreans too are bussed here from all over the country. Men coming down corridor cue 03.21 Every week 40,000 of them file through this building (in their Sunday best) - to see their President’s body lie in state. Going through halls to statue BOWING before Statue Bowing before statue 03.35 In North Korea’s version of history – Kim Il Sung saved the Communist North from US occupation – a humiliation their poor Korean cousins in the South are still forced to endure. Close up statue 10.03.45 Few here know they’re all shorter than their capitalist counterparts. Minders cue at 10.03.57 These are our minders - Every visitor gets one of these. And we’ve got two. – Hwang, the veteran Party man and his ambitious junior, Yong Man. Their job is to watch us – and ensure we show the country their way, with due respect to their demigod Kim Il Sung. Men walk past statue Men file out – on feet Cue at 10.04.15 Kim The Father –the Great Leader - died ten years ago leaving the Kingdom to his anointed son, Kim Jong Il addressing troops Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader. Theirs is the only dynasty in the history of Communism. Today Kim the Son, likes to be known as the Great General – a military genius protecting his country Hate the USA poster - from the next US invasion – imminent any day. 10.04.46 cue at 04.57 We’ve been brought to his old school – today reserved for the elite. Workers party families only. NATSOF Just 8 and 9 year olds – and they’re all already well on-message. School set up PICTURES OF KIMS Children clapping plus actuality Q: Do you know the name of the President of the United States? A: It’s Bush Q: Would you like to send a message to President Bush? Boy sync A: I want to tell him to get out of South Korea and stop slaughtering South Korean children. PAUSE (while he remembers his lines) It fills me with rising hatred. Re-Voice in DUB Q: What do you think the United States thinks of the DPRK (of your country) A: The United States is looking for the opportunity to occupy the whole Korean peninsula. The United States is our sworn enemy. JUAN smiling ....... which in North Korea is the right answer. Kids in class Children wave. Juche tower They’ve arranged our tour to show North Korea’s version of the truth. Pyongyang was built with Soviet money. When the Cold War ended everyone thought the regime would collapse – but they were wrong. Our minders aim is to help us set the record straight and correct the myth – so popular with the foreign media – that North Korea’s a basket case. Poss insert 37.03.40.02 Western media always show the opposite of the truth. Minder sync Speak with your own voice, objectively. Don’t just repeat what others say. If you report what you see here how happy we would be. That’s why we invited you. Off to the country on the road Cue at 07.18 The question is how much of the real country will I be allowed to see and film uncensored. There’s no time for example in our busy schedule to stop for shots of this more feudal North Korea. The road is great completely empty . We’re obviously the only ones here with a car. This is clearly how most North Koreans travel. I can see my little camera’s going to be useful. Farm cue at 07.55 First stop the model collective farm; This is on every standard tour - Note the record harvest – that’s to scotch that other myth - so popular with the foreign press – famine – said to have killed three million people in the last ten years. LAUGHS Not here. Up on the hillside far away Up on the hillside –– and more dancing. The whole village has turned out. Close up The party’s to celebrate Kim Jong Il’s 6th re-election as head of the Workers Party. Not a surprise result. Pan down Surreal? yes but harmless and rather charming. Until you get that other message – screaming from the giant posters facing the road. Posters WE WILL TAKE REVENGE AGAINST THE USA WITH NUCLEAR BOMBS. OH - OUTSIDE WORLD LOOK AT US. WE WILL WIN WITH OUR GREAT GENERAL. Dual message beautifully simple: What they always seem to be saying is: . Pigs and chickens We’re very happy in our little world. Leave us alone or we’ll kill you. Woman watches telly On this planet housewives watch TV in the afternoons. They can always be sure to catch their favourite programme. Woman sync We have special military parades which our Great General attends. And they show it repeatedly so everyone in the country can enjoy it. Tv The footage runs all day every day on a loop – with same shots repeated every few minutes. Sync farm woman In the evening we watch the same parade with all the family Portraits Watching over them – as in every home, the 2 Kims Question: Is this village a happy village? Answer: Yes this village is happy. It’s richer than other villages because we enjoy the blessing of our great General and Great leader. Because the General thinks so highly of this province Chung San Ri, we always have a good harvest and never need to worry about food. Minders watching It’s all going terribly well and our minders are delighted. Time for another song. Singing Minder Juan Actuality singing Pan Mun Jom OPEN ROAD LEAVING PYONGYANG Pan Mun Jom cue 11.27 Pan Mun Jom, for that Cold War Frisson, the border with South Korea is always popular with visitors. This too is a stage set of a kind but for North Koreans it’s a deadly reality. Buildings cue 11.39 Millions died in the Korean war between North and south half a century ago and both sides are still on constant alert. Buildings 10.11.56 Propaganda blaring cue 12.03. 06. Cue at 12.14 Cue at 10. 12 21 Cue at 12.34 The North Korean army is said to be a million strong and armed to the teeth. No man’s land. Beneath this rural idyll is a vast arsenal of mines guns and missiles. The music (by the way) is not a nearby tea-dance but weird propaganda blaring at us from the south. Outside North Korea – it’s known the North started the Korean war –.and invaded the south. There are documents to prove it. But no-one thinks that here. This is North Korea’s version. General sync Aston GENERAL KANG HO SOP 29:08:00:24 The USA started the Korean war in order to occupy this country. Their aim is to conquer the whole of Asia and use the Korean peninsula as a first step. 29:15:25:01 [Olenka: Q] Do you think it’s possible that you may have been misled about this piece of history. Big lie Don’t try to give me pro-American prpaganda.. I don’t like it and it’s against our military rules. Because in the west that people in this country have been told a big lie about this war. 29:14:41:10 General sync Even if you had proof we would never accept it because it’s all fake. Aand it wouldn’t change our hatred towards the usa. …. general sync 30:00:00:00 I hate Americans to death. I’ll fight them to the end. I’ll kill Americans, survive and save our revolution. Don’t tell me any more about what the USA says about us. If you keep asking about them I’ll stop this interview. Off-camera, behind me my minder is getting anxious. 30:02:37:02 minder sync intervention – subtitle I advise you to stop this kind of talks because it makes you both angry. Minders milling about Driving through tunnels mountains You have to leave North Korea before you can hear a different story – from those who lived here once and risked their lives to leave. America From Korea, to Korea- town in California - the land of the sworn enemy the United States. Laundry pix comm. And a small laundry where a former North Korean army officer now has a new life. Kim Yong was once so loyal, he’d have willingly given his life for (his great and dear leaders.) Today he’s one of the few who’ve fled and lived to tell the tale. 41.03.45.24 There are so many innocents being brutally treated and living like beasts under the North Korean regime. I want to testify to that. KIM YONG in California set up driving Glasses Reels Pan to himsewing machine Car Him driving Kim Yong was an orphan. He joined the army and rose through the ranks until one day it emerged that years before his father had been hanged as an American spy – he fell victim to the Heredity Rule. In North Korea it isn’t just offenders who’re punished - but their children down to three generations - in order to root out the criminal seed. So without being charged with any crime, Kim Yong was sent to a concentration camp. Driving, 10 -15 seconds 41.02.09.13 I never saw my father’s face but I was punished for what he did decades ago. (phonetic out YUSSSAYOOH) From what I saw in the prison camp, most first generations died there and their descendants spend their lives in the camp being treated worse than animals. (phonetic out JOOKOR) There were a lot of people in the camp like me - descendants of the sinners - people who spent 20 – 30 even 40 years in the camp. (phonetic IN - Umm Mah sooner) Some came with their parents when they were toddlers and lived there like animals ever since. Driving 12 seconds Koreatown him with pastor Close up Pan up 2shot In the prison camp he says inmates are worked and starved to death. He was tortured in many different ways. He still has no idea why. Kim Yong sync 41.00.26.23 - 41.02.09.13 The most unendurable torture was they put me in a very small room with water up to my waist( phonetic out KAW). (phonetic in SERJIDAW) I could not sit nor lay down and I had to stay like that for 48 hours. When I collapsed they lifted me and forced me to stay like that it was unbearable. (Phonetic out KUDALPAKOO.) (PH IN KADAMEE) You see this scar on my wrist - they handcuffed me and left me hanging from the ceiling (phonetic nawkaw) – with only the tips of my toes touching the ground and they left me like that. It was unbearable (Phonetic out KUDALPAKOO.) (Phonetic in Kadamee) They made me kneel down with a pole jammed against the back of my knees and trampled on my legs with their boots on. (Phonetic out KODENYO) Phonetic in (KADAME) My nails have healed now but they were all broken because they stuch a sharp bamboo under my finger nails. It was an awful experence. I couldn’t even kill myself there even though I tried. MAP Animate North Korea Animate Border Animate prison camps. Visitors to North Korea are shown the capital Pyongyang and the De miliitarised zone, the border with the South. Where they never go is here. To North Korea’s Gulag. Its network of secret concentration camps where according to an UN report hundreds of thousands of people are held. Oin inhuman conditions, starved. Tortured and killed having committed no crime. Sun ok lee. Sweeping leaves I’ve learnt this from testimonies of North Korean escapees– whose accounts corroborate each other. Like Sun Ok Lee. In a previous life this former Workers Party official was accused of falsifying accounts and jailed. She too describes endless torture – with no purpose. . Sun Ok Lee sync 64.03.35ish They had a kettle specially made for torturing . It contains about ten litres of water. Its spout was especially designed so when they put it to my mouth the gullet fully opens.(ends JOOJONJANTE) I had to drink water until I lost consciousness, (endsKEEJALLHAGO) then they splashed me with cold water (ends MANDIELMEN). When I woke up they put a wooden plank across my stomach and trampled on each side of the plate. (ends PALBOONIKAN) I thought all my intestines were bursting into pieces by that pressure and water came out of my mouth nose and every hole in my body. I begged them to kill me, I couldn’t bear the pain. Sweeping leaves. Sky bird sweeping Sun Ok Lee is one of many former prisoners who say the Heredity rule is applied ruthlessly to women prisoners who arrive pregant. Sun ok lee sweeping . sky Underlay sync As the women are political prisoners their babies also inherit their mother’s guilt and must be killed Sun Ok Lee sync When the baby is born the officer suffocates the infant by stepping on its neck in front of the mother. The mother screams and begs to save her baby it is indescribable. I saw all this. People in Pyongyang Tai kwon do outside Back in Pyongyang – The official story is that North Korean prisoners are treated well – but it’s impossible to tell how much these people really know. TAEKWONDO And anyway we’re back on the tour. This is Taekwondo North Korea’s national sport. But just spot the subtext. And it’s the same song – just a different dance. Taekwondo demonstration. Woman minding her own business North Korea’s the victims of bullyboys. Unprovoked attack by bullyboys Woman fights back spectacularly North Korea will defend itself Woman jumps on attackers back and shrieks triumphantly North Korea will destroy its enemies. Cue 22.32 Even on our visit it all goes a bit wrong. Natsof “Power-cut” Power cut Power shortages plague Pyongyang City illuminations At night, only the shrines to the Kims are always lit. The citizens are left to find their way in the gloom. Journey in the dark Outside the city you can drive for hours in darkness through entire towns and villages where there’s no power, no petrol, no light at all. We weren’t supposed to film this. Perhaps because it’s from these regions outside Pyongyang in this total blackout that there are again reports of serious food shortages. 37:08:51:11 Minder sync Mostly people say the same thing that in North Korea we are dying from starvation, we have no city, no electricity – that it’s a world of darkness. Olenka question sync 37:09:22:15 But they were starving and there are food problems. and there are problems with power and there are problems with transport. that’s true, isn’t it? Minder sync 37:09:38:19 INSERT THIS yes, that’s true. But as you have seen we have cities and lights. Is it a world of darkness - have you seen people starving? No. olenka sync 37:12:18:05 INSERT THIS we drove for hours in the darkness and there is no power there. Minder sync 37:11:50:00 We do supply electricity to the villages, but we can’t supply them all at the same time, We have a rota. They take it in turns. Minder sync 37:12:28:22 When we were there, it was their turn to wait. That’s our system. Satellite map But the view from space tells a different story. At night - the Korean peninsula looks like this. The capitalist south is ablaze with light. The north is dark. Apart from that, very little is known about this closed country. For most of the outside world it’s an intelligence black hole. seoul Seoul cue 25.08 Gv Pan People Wall pix People reading Crowded Neon Traffic KH from car Photo Very few North Koreans make it here to Seoul the capital of the South. About a hundred thousand try to escape every year but they have to go through China – which is hard. Many are caught, sent back, jailed and even killed. We know this from North Koreans who’ve made it to safety – not just the innocent victims of the regime – but now from one of those who says he was in charge. Cue 25.35 We’ve found someone who’s decided to talk for the first time about his experience as a prison chief and who corroborates what we’ve heard from others. Uniform In 1999 Kwon Hyuk was a North Korean agent – a senior army intelligence officer stationed in China. Because of his rank he was persuaded to defect and came to Seoul. Kwon Hyuk is a former security Chief at North Korea’s Prison Camp number 22. KH 84.17.48.21 30” ish REINSTATE LAST LINE> 84.19.20.58 A 3.300 volt electric fence surrounds the prison camp which is around two and a half metres high.(ends IMEDAOSHIPEEYEYOU) 3,300 volts – an electric surround the camp. Even an animal would die if it touched the fence. Inside the electric fence is a moat surrounding the camp about 10 metres deep and wide. On the bottom of the moat are spikes designed to kill any prisoner who falls while trying to jump the moat. No prisoner can escape. KH sync 87.27.45.03 Not a single day goes without there being torture. Even if there was no excuse. If I was in a bad mood I l would find an excuse to do it.. It’s just like pigs or dogs. You could beat them every day without caring if they would live or die. Every day. KH sync 88.08.57.23 For around 3 years torturing people is enjoyable. After three years the pleasure wears off. And someone replaces you. But the pleasure wears off year by year and after 3 years a replacement takes place eventually . Mostly you do it for pleasure Comm. About once a month he says he ordered public executions in the camp. All the prisoners are made to watch as punishment goes beyond the Heredity principle. If a political prisoner breaks a camp rule then not only his family but also the five neighbouring families get killed out of collective responsibility. I once killed 31 people, all the members of five families. KwonnHyuk comm He learnt it all in the army Back in our North Korean musical we’re being treated to another show of strength. The army - is what North Korea’s neighbours really fear. Its legendary ruthlessness , efficiency and discipline plus its arms aimed and ready towards the outside world. This is where what little money north Korea has is spent. Nuclear talks American visit 53 And now they’re going nuclear. American inspectors visiting the country last month confirmed the worst. North Korea probably isn’t bluffing. This unique footage shows the actual plutonium rods they mothballed a decade ago – which now they’re putting back to work. North Korea Director of Foreign Affairs sync Come in later on OMEGA (In on (OMEGA) As announced Omega 2Zero has been re-started in Yongbyong and it has been in full operation since December. We have reprocessed 8000 rods of nuclear fuel successfully. Olenka: Is the processed plutonium is it weapons grade plutonium? (IN ON: YONG DAW) SYNC DIRECTOR: We changed the purpose of the plutonium and decided to use it to strengthen our nuclear deterrent power. Script North Korea is now thought to have enough reprocessed plutonium for 6 maybe 8 nuclear bombs Apocalyptic sync Robert Gallucci US North Korea negotiator 1994 sync 44. 05.2725 I would be very concerned about te consequences. It is from an American perspective and I think for many other people around the world one of our worst nightmares. Pix Gallucci 1994 Robert Gallucci’s was here a decade ago he signed a deal where North Korea would freeze its nuclear programme in return for American technology. But by 2002 the deal was dead. Titles and actuality 10.30,53 This is how North korean television reported the news. The new Bush Whitehouse, it announced with its war on terror had proclaimed a new policy. Pre-emption. NK TV PIX BUSH WITH AXIS of EVIL GANGSTER NATION TARGET OF PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKE PUBBLE It had called North korea - the axis of evil, – a rogue state – and warned it would be the target of a nuclear strike. NKTV Voice over Orator [Orator] [00:03:23:15] Who do the Americans think they are? Why do they bring black clouds of nuclear war to this beautiful country with its scenic mountains and serene rivers ( Out on “IMNIKKAH”) Sync 24.02.49.09 Director Foreign MInister sync Yong Tae Yang Since the Bush administration called us the axis of evil and declared they would do a pre-emptive nuclear strike, our hatred towards them reached its peak. Comm. Ba;llistic missiles bellicose war-mongering America hatred has proved lucrative for North Korea. Its ballistic missiles, its biggest export sell very well to other America haters around the world. And those same buyers might now be interested in North Korea’s new nuclear line. For the rest of the world, this is the nightmare scenario. Sync Gallucci The concern would be that North Korea would transfer, sell, uranium, even more likely than plutonium, once they produced it, to Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda could directly, by itself, produce a simple nuclear weapon using simple design(..), a device that would normally yield about 12 kilotonnes, that would be delivered by some simple means- a truck a ship – container to some port in the world and it would detonate and it would kill hundreds of thousand of people instantaneously and another couple of thousands people in the next four to six weeks. That would be the nightmare FADE TO BLACK Minders montage - But it can’t be great, if you’re a North Korean to be called part of the axis of evil. These people are totally cut off from the outside world. They’ve been through a famine - this boy is 15 – And now – America, their sworn enemy wants to bomb them. No wonder there’s only ever one answer when you as them who’s to blame. Boy sync TRANSLATE Bush……….. Warmonger Olenka question in English Does anybody have another opinion? Laughing Yong Man Translate She asked about the USA and do you share the same opinion? Yes same opinion Everybody agrees with his voice and words. Would anyobody else like to add anything say something They’re all running away People walk away cue at 4339 Prompting Yong Man looks in canera Poor guy on kerb Workers Men My efforts to generate a lively debate aren’t going down very well. And my minders are getting nervous. It’s all a bit too unscripted - For them ….. They can’t help offering interviewees a little help. There’s no such thing as impromptu filming here…..they like to be in control. Unchoreographed shots make hem nervous. MAN CARRYING DOOR 35.19 This shot – from some reason was the last straw. Culminating in YONG MAN ON BRIDGE angry interchange WHY YOU TRYING TO TAKE THESE KIND OF PICTURES ONLY? I CAN’T UNDERSTAND YOU. Men walk by It’s all getting a bit tense Yong Man looks at me. – and I can see that in a culture where there is no debate, no criticism ever – our way of working must seem quite blasphemous. 30.11.48.04 General at DMZ We will never forgive anyone who tries to undermine our country or our great leader or who interferes with our sovereignty. Beware. Whether we strike first, or second - depending on what the others do, that’s up to us. – Visual sequence to transit to chemical weapons sequence If you believe from birth that the world is out to get you – as it may well be – any violent response becomes legitimate. 29.24.17.10 General at DMZ We have a deterrent – as you know. It can hit anywhere in the world. Anyone who attacks us whether it’s America, the Uk or Germany we will get them before they attack us. Don’t ask me how. I won’t say Looking through binoculars Mountains Is this what he’s hinting at? Not nuclear but chemical attack. That’s what they’re scared of here just 30 miles away across the border on the South. – scare enough to run these civil defence drills every few months. Chemical attack drill John Wolftstahl Carnegie endowment for Peace in Washington 52.13.26.50 sync North Korea has both the means and the capability to produce basic chemical and biological weapons…… Wolfstahl 52.13.11.54 They have the capability to lay waste to the entire Korean peninsula and to spread either chemical or biological weapons and potentially even nuclear weapons over a much broader area. 52. 13.26.50 And how do we know that ?? Wolfstahl; 13.27.35 …there is lots of evidence that North Korea has these capabilities, both from defectors, from intercepts of chemicals they have imported from satellite intercepts from communication interceptors and also from spies on the ground. Sun Ok Lee former prisoner set up sweeping leaves We’re hearing something else more sinister from those who’ve seen the North Korea that we are not being shown. That the prison camps are a giant laboratory for testing chemical poisons. With prisoners as guinea pigs. Sun ok lee sync An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners – One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the fifty women. (Ends ..NOONAJOSOYOU) I started to hand them out and heard a scream – “Oh my stomach my tummy, please save me” from those who had started eating them. (.ends…PARAMEE) …(Begins NANNIN) After giving them all out I turned around and saw a scene like hell. I can never forget that nightmare. (gesticulates)They were all screaming and vomiting blood. Black blood was coming out from both ends. (ends NAAKAYOU) I never knew that a human being could vomit and bleed that much in such a short time. It was like a scene from hell. All fifty people were vomiting and screaming with pain. But after twenty minutes they had all collapsed. Night time seoul Close up cars For a North korean, adapting to life in Seoul isn’t easy. Choir Kwon Hyuk has new clothes, a new name and a new wife. Second from the right FX She and her friends – all escapees from the north miss all the singing. They’re hoping to hit the red retro market with their Defector’s choir . Today Kwon’s inside knowledge has made him useful to the South Korean government . But he carried a burden. Photo and shot through glass. He says he’s brought with him a horrific secret from his days as security chief at prison camp number 22 which he now says the world must know. His testimony doesn’t just corroborate what we’ve heard – it goes way beyond. 84.29.27.05 I will now disclose about the laboratories for experiments on humans in recent years. These laboratories are all made of glass. (ends YOURIROU) (starts YOURIROU) The glass chamber has three main sub- divisions. One is for blood experiments – another is for poison gas – and the third is for suffocation gas. (Ends NAANOYOU) The size of the lab is almost the same as this room., 3 or 4 people, normally a family are experimented on. (ends TAN WEEROO) Once inside the lab they are all stripped naked and checked medically to ensure they’re healthy before putting them in the chambers. When they’re sure they are free of disease they put them inside. 89.03.18.04 This is the room and these walls are all made of glass. (ends TEYOTEYSOYOU) KH sync (begins MILLPE) This is all sealed – You have to walk up this ladder togo in and up here to watch from above. This is 3.5 meter wide, 3m long and 2.2m high. INSERT KH 84.31.20 ish (Over drawing) The scientists sit round the edge and observe the experiment from above, through the glass. KH sync The injection tube comes down like through the unit and it is attached like this. This is the main door to the chamber and this is another, authomatic door.. Normally, a family sticks together like this individual prisoners stand here and here separately in the corners. PAUSE I watched the whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber. Parents, one son and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save their kids by doing mouth to mouth breathing. For the first time it hit me that even prisoners are capable of powerful human affection. 87.03.10.36 OIlenka question when you saw the experiment on the human beings what did you think what did you feel? 87.04.26.08 KH sync At the time I felt that they thoroughly deserved such a death. Because we were all led to believe that all the bad things that were happening to North Korea was their fault, that we were poor, divided and not making progress as a country……. 87.05.53.02 Olenka question What about the children Did you feel they deserved to die too? 87.06.12.17 KH sync It would be a total lie for me to say I felt sympathetic about the children dying such a painful death. Under the society and the regime I was in that the time I only felt that they were the enemies. So I felt no sympathy or pity for them at all. Night time Seoul 45.09 CHILD’s FACE Rumours of human experimentation in North Korea’s prisons have been reported by a number of defectors who’ve made it to Seoul. - but never with any way to verify them and with no documentary proof. Until now. Photograph of Kim Kim Sang Hun has for years been a distinguished human rights activist . He was honoured last April by Time magazine as one of their men of the year. He’s obtained some remarkable evidence. KIM SYNC This is a North Korean document smuggled out of North Korea recently, clearly explaining that political prisoners are used for the purpose of human biological experimentation and for production of biological weapons. Kim holding four documents Kim Sang Hun, obtained the documents from another official someone else who worked at Prison Camp 22 who hid them in his trousers before escaping North Korea. Each document has a different prisoner’s name. If they’re genuine they are the first real proof of a terrible crime by North Korea against its people. The question is how credible are they? SYNC KIM SANG HUN why is this evidence? It carries a North Korean format, the quality of paper is North Korean and it has an official stamp of agencies involved with this human experimentation. A stamp they cannot deny. And it carries names of the victims and where and why and how theses people were experimented. Kim Sync How do you know it is not a forgery? Because of the stamp and I have shown this to a number of North Korean defectors. I heard similar stories from more then 20 or 30 refugees their testimonies converged to one fact; that human biological experimentation is taking place for many years and systematically, And the number of victims are very many. It is wide spread practice Rostrum document go to Letter of Transfer Top Secret February 2002 Lin Hun Hwa Date of Birth The document is headed Letter of Transfer It’s stamped Top Secret and dated February 2002. The name of the victim was Lin Hun Hwa. He was 39. The text reads: Actor’s voice The above person is transferred. From… Camp Number 22….. for the purpose of human experimentation of liquid gas for chemical weapons We’ve checked the document with an independent Korean expert who says it looks authentic. But I wanted to run one more check (KH) with the former official of Prison Camp 22 who didn’t know I’d seen the Letter of Transfer Question to KH Olenka Question 85.11.28.14 Ok so can I ask you a very specific question. How were people selected to go into this gas chamber? Was there any paperwork. Was it written down somewhere? Sync KH Cut out after about 8 ish seconds. When he puts pen down. When we escort them to the lab, we bring with them a Letter of Transfer. (ends TAYSSA -) cut out before CHA Rostrum Letter of Transfer Letter of Transfer Comm set up Seoul Night seoul In Seoul they know all this. But they like to pretend they don’t. Instead, recent South Korean Governments have done everything to strengthen the Northern regime with millions in aid and illegal payments – straight to Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Because what the world’s 12th largest economy really wants is stability. And what it dreads - above all - is a tide of 22 million destitute country-cousins coming to stay. 93. 42.5 IF POSSIBLE. DON’T OVERLAY THIS BIT. IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND OUT OF VISION., Unification Minister SYNC We do not encourage any North Koreans to defect. Why not? We want to improve the situation in North Korea so that North Koreans do not have to defect. That’s our primary concern 95.20.58 Regime change is not our objective . We want to negotiate with North Korean Government to improve situation in North Korea. Question Regime change is not your objective? No Question: You don’t want Kim Jong Il gone? Well it’s I’m not I’m saying that you know, we are not pursuing any regime change in North Korea. 93. 12.20 POSSIBLE CUT …… . North Korea is stable and is under control of the leadership, so it is best for us to negotiate with North Korean leadership to resolve things. Washington aeroplanes flying past Capitol Hill cue at 50.56 In Washington too, regime change is so-o last year. What matters now is homeland security. What they want from North Korea is a deal. . Scrap the nukes and then we can talk While we get on with Fortress America. Capitol Hill Hwang set up pix 51.22 FX go back There’ s only one group today pushing for regime change. The defectors. This reception is for the most senior defector of all. 83 year old Hwang Jang Yop changed sides after a lifetime with the Kims. He’s come to Washington – South Korean minders in tow – with the zeal of the convert. His message to the Americans is stand firm. And don’t do any deal with Kim Jong Il. Hwang sync Olenka RECORD QUESTION? Match echo 62.24.08.22 At the moment – the peace makers are afraid of that evil regime so they keep yielding, giving them aid and ingratiating themselves with them. But tat’s completely wrong and a very bad attitude… I’m saying they’re evil. They repress and starve their people and make the whole nation a huge prison Question: So what should be done? ..My position is that KJI regime must be eliminated. 63.00.57.12 CAN WE FIND MORE RELEVANT SHOTS THAN THESE???? More Hwang in Washington ? But Washington’s suffering battle fatigue. Hwang’s an old man and no-one’s listening. Not to him nor to any of those others who’ve suffered the true evil of North korea. And risked their lives to escape and tell the world. Kim Jong Il may well be a dictator but North Korea has no oil and it’s far away. The voices of defectors won’t be heard at the talks to solve the current stand-off between Pyongyang and Washington. The 6 nation talks due to start up again soon will only address the nuclear question - human rights won’t be on anyone’s agenda. Gallucci sync 05.19.53 I want to deal with that separately. If as a result of successfully dealing with that we can develop a diplomatic relationship with North Korea then we could put the human rights abuses on the agenda as we have elsewhere. If you prevent yourself from dealing with the threat in order to demonstrate you absolute moral judgement over what they’re doing to their own people I think you put the world at risk and I don’t think we can afford to do that. 95. 13.46 Unification Minister sync Question: Have you said anything to the north koreans about the human rights abuses there,? Have you discussed it with them? Answer: Errm we are concerned about the human right situation in North Korea and the North Korean authorities will be aware of that fact. But in er inter Korean dialogues we basically deal with more imminent issues. Kim Yong wiping tears from his eyes. One thing unites the Korean peninsula – South and North – a wish to see the status quo preserved. And for now, they’ll probably get their way. The people of Pyongyang are not about to rise up. Kim Yong Olenka question: What would have happened if the terrible twist of fate hadn’t happened. And you hadn’t been arrested because of the discovery of your father. Where would you be now. Would you be happy? I don’t know if I would be happy there. But I know I would still be loyal to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and I would serve them for life. Jusuk Palace again At the great Mausoleum in Pyongyang, I search people’s faces but still can’t read behind the mask. No winks, no jokes, no ironic asides, this is unlike any communist country I’ve known. I still can’t tell if they know what’s really going on. Olenka question Do you understand why people outside think you’re either brainwashed or frightened. Minder Hwang sync Everything we do is right Minder yong man sync 517 a 45.41.22 INSERT We conduct everything in a righteous way, politically economically militarily, 517A 47.39.13 Olenka sync You say that. Others don’t agree. They say you are not righteous. They say you are evil. They say you are bad. 517A.47.55.17 Minder Hwan That’s why we need you to represent our view Olenka question Do you ever wonder whether maybe you have been deceived? Yong Man no, Olenka question never? Yong Man sync never Olenka question what about juan? Minder Hwang hold shots of them never Minders shots 57.03 I feel a little bad for them - but we all have jobs to do. know Palace room of tears woman weeping cue at 5712. Another crocodile in the stream of pilgrims to Kim the Father’s enormous tomb. 57.17 This actress/woman/guide has two minutes to make them cry. 57.31. It’s called the Crying Room. It’s where they get the story of his death. 57.59 She’s got her tear, it’s over - on to the next group. Final shot The North Korean Government says all the charges in this film are lies. Let them open Prison Camp 22 to inspectors and prove it. 1 1