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SOUNDING BOARD
Monday, December 16, 2002
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North Korea upset over Bond film
North Korea has called on US to stop showing the latest James Bond film "Die Another Day" saying that it is "insulting the Korean Nation" (BBC News 14 December 2002). North Korea cries foul because of the following: (a) the movie features an evil North Korean officer feared to be planning an invasion of South Korea and then Japan; (b) it shows a farmer tilling a field with a cow, which critics say makes the country appear backward; and (c) the film describes North Korea as part of an 'axis of evil'.
Let's get things straight. It's a freakin' movie. And if the North Korean government is offended, maybe it should ask James Bond himself to issue an apology just like what the "apologetic kidnapper" did to Japan recently. The movie seems a relaxing way to spend time while we wait for the diplomatic solution to the Pyongyang problem.
posted by Allan at 2:27 PM (GMT+8)
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