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James Bond insults Korea, says Pyongyang
[2002-12-14 15:38]

SEOUL (Reuters) - Pyongyang has accused James Bond to "insult the
Korean Nation" in his last film, "Die An Other Day", where the agent
007 is tortured by north Korean agents.

In a press release distributed by the official news agency KCNA, the
"Secretary of the committee for the peaceful reunification of the
homeland" asks to the United States to suspend the projection of the
film, qualified as "sordid and comical work aiming to defame and to
insult the Korean Nation".

The film realized by the MGM "obviously shows" that United States,
"real devil's Empire, (...) are behind all catastrophes and
misadventures endured by the Korean Nation".

For the communist regime of Pyongyang, Americans are the heart of a
society that spreads the abnormality, the degeneration, the violence
as well as a corrupted sexual culture".

The last James Bond has also displeased South-Koreans, but for a
different reason, and notably a scene where the agent of Her Very
Graceful Majesty has sexual relationships in a Buddhist temple.

Seoul objects because of an other scene showing a farmer ploughing his
field with a bullock plough, what would tend to show that southern
Korea is an low-developped country.

"Die An Other Day" would have in principle to be projected in the
south of the peninsula from now until the end the year.

[NDT : Shocking ... making sex in a Buddhist temple ... Brits have really
lost their last ounce of education. So Chris, you were so right some
weeks ago when you said that Brits are no more what they used to be as
for sex ... ;op ]

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Ian, if you read this one, maybe you can pass the info to Sylvie,
"for the fun" !

Gendarme and poor thief
[14/12/2002 17:16]

DUNKIRK (AP) - A gendarme has been condemnee Friday evening to two
years of prison for having tried to holp up a shop with a fist weapon
in Armbouts-Cappel, near Dunkirk (North), declared judicial sources.

Cowled and armed, the 39 years old soldier had entered Thursday at
06h30orning a "Press & tobacco" shop to request the case. The
shopkeeper (YL) had recognized him and put him to flight.

The gendarme, Eric Delvall�, was "off duty" for ten months. The
criminal court of Dunkirk has not retained the psychological fragility of the soldier.

AP