Ghost
17/10/2004, 10h51
Pitch de l'histoire :
January 1968, 31 members of North Korean Special Unit 124 infiltrated South Korea with the ultimate mission of attacking the Blue House (Presidential Palace in Korea) and assassinating President PARK Chung-hee. When KIM Shin-jo, the only member who was captured alive, was asked “What was the purpose of infiltration?” on a live TV program, he shouted “I came to slit the throat of President PARK Chung-hee!” and made the whole country’s blood run cold.
At the same time, In-chan escapes the death penalty for being an accessory to a crime when he accepts an unexpected proposal from Jae-hyun , a general at Silmido H.I.D. Project and is transported to Silmido Special Unit. Silmido Special Unit is a unit composed of dysfunctional social outcasts and criminals under the death or life sentences. Sang-pil and Won-hee are also among the members of this unit. When they arrive at the island, Jae-hyun gives them the classified national duty, which is to explode the North Korean presidential palace and behead KIM Il-sung, the North Korean president. It is a retaliatory project.
To its all 31 members, it is the ultimate patriotic mission with pride and loyalty; and it is the only chance they have to start a new life that is promised once the mission is successfully accomplished. With their hopes and promising vision, they survive through the most hellish inhumane ‘killing’ training and are reborn as human armories. They are the human killing machines, with strong comradeship and respect for each other.
Finally, the day arrives and they receive an order from the head office to carry out the mission. With their supreme confidence, they depart for the North. However, the project is suddenly revoked and they return to Silmido with much discouragement and stress. After then, the hellish training continues but, there is no more mission. The psychological frustration and physical tolerance start to reach their limits. And soon, the members start to lose their focus and unity. In order to regain complete control of the unit, the head office performs public executions of its own members. Meanwhile in 1970, with growing nationwide peacemaking movement between the North and the South, the government quickly decides to demolish Silmido Special Unit and executes all its members...
Histoire passionnante, surtout quand on apprend qu'elle est basée sur des faits réels et que le gouvernement Sud Coréen a avoué récemment l'existence de cette Unité Spéciale :
Military Admits `Silmido Unit' for First Time
By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter
With hundreds of thousands of South Koreans enthused by the recently released domestic film ``Silmido,’’ military authorities on Friday confirmed for the first time the existence of ``Unit 684,’’ a secret unit of agents who were trained for the assassination of then-North Korean leader Kim Il-sung in late 1960s.
The Defense Ministry said the unit in question is a detachment of the ROK Air Force’s Squadron 2325, which recruited 31 civilians for special missions on April 1, 1968.
``Seven of them died in training, 20 were killed in a rebellion and the four survivors were put to death after military trial,’’ ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Nam Dae-youn said in a press briefing.
Nam added the ministry found five out of the seven men from a village of Okchon, North Chungchong Province, who altogether went missing around the time, had identical names with five of the 31 unit members. ``We cannot confirm if the five are the same people that were members of the unit, because most of records were destroyed. We will have to check further,’’ he said.
Keen public attention was drawn to Unit 684 and the Silmido incident as a movie, portraying the fate of 31 unit members in rebellion, was released late last year.
The unit was launched in retaliation against a North Korean attempt to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-hee in 1968. On Jan. 21, 1968, 31 North Korean agents sneaked into Seoul on a mission to assassinate then-president Park Chung-hee. They almost reached Chong Wa Dae, but most of them were killed in the mountains surrounding the presidential residence.
The number of the unit, 684, stands for the April, 1968 when the unit was founded. The members were trained harshly on a remote, deserted island in the West Sea called Silmido.
The identities of those 31 figures and how they joined the unit are not known, though the movie described them as condemned criminals.
The unit was ready by 1969 for its infiltration mission into Pyongyang, but by that time relations between the two rival Koreas had thawed somewhat, and Seoul reconsidered its assassination plans. The unit members were left isolated on the island, unable to leave, for about three years in conditions described in the film as inhumane.
In August of 1971, unit members rose to kill their overseers and made their way to Chong Wa Dae in rebellion. Most of them, however, committed suicide with their grenades when confronted with troops in Seoul.
jinryu@koreatimes.co.kr
02-06-2004 17:46
Le DVD Z3 est disponible sur YesAsia
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Ce film se base sur des faits réels mais je me demande si la scène finale (bus) s'est réellement déroulée de cette manière.
Allez, un ptit apperçu du scénario pour les ceux et les ceusses qui ne comprennent pas l'ingliche :
1968 : Silmido est une ile coréenne où est etabli un centre d'entrainement de l'unité de force spéciales 684. Cette unité est preparée pour l'assassinat du président nord coréen Kim Il Sung. Cependant, suites à des négociations avec le nord, le KCIA ordonne secrètement de tuer tous les membres de l'unité 684, ne voulant pas risquer d'incident diplomatique à la veille d'une réconciliation...
A voir donc ...
January 1968, 31 members of North Korean Special Unit 124 infiltrated South Korea with the ultimate mission of attacking the Blue House (Presidential Palace in Korea) and assassinating President PARK Chung-hee. When KIM Shin-jo, the only member who was captured alive, was asked “What was the purpose of infiltration?” on a live TV program, he shouted “I came to slit the throat of President PARK Chung-hee!” and made the whole country’s blood run cold.
At the same time, In-chan escapes the death penalty for being an accessory to a crime when he accepts an unexpected proposal from Jae-hyun , a general at Silmido H.I.D. Project and is transported to Silmido Special Unit. Silmido Special Unit is a unit composed of dysfunctional social outcasts and criminals under the death or life sentences. Sang-pil and Won-hee are also among the members of this unit. When they arrive at the island, Jae-hyun gives them the classified national duty, which is to explode the North Korean presidential palace and behead KIM Il-sung, the North Korean president. It is a retaliatory project.
To its all 31 members, it is the ultimate patriotic mission with pride and loyalty; and it is the only chance they have to start a new life that is promised once the mission is successfully accomplished. With their hopes and promising vision, they survive through the most hellish inhumane ‘killing’ training and are reborn as human armories. They are the human killing machines, with strong comradeship and respect for each other.
Finally, the day arrives and they receive an order from the head office to carry out the mission. With their supreme confidence, they depart for the North. However, the project is suddenly revoked and they return to Silmido with much discouragement and stress. After then, the hellish training continues but, there is no more mission. The psychological frustration and physical tolerance start to reach their limits. And soon, the members start to lose their focus and unity. In order to regain complete control of the unit, the head office performs public executions of its own members. Meanwhile in 1970, with growing nationwide peacemaking movement between the North and the South, the government quickly decides to demolish Silmido Special Unit and executes all its members...
Histoire passionnante, surtout quand on apprend qu'elle est basée sur des faits réels et que le gouvernement Sud Coréen a avoué récemment l'existence de cette Unité Spéciale :
Military Admits `Silmido Unit' for First Time
By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter
With hundreds of thousands of South Koreans enthused by the recently released domestic film ``Silmido,’’ military authorities on Friday confirmed for the first time the existence of ``Unit 684,’’ a secret unit of agents who were trained for the assassination of then-North Korean leader Kim Il-sung in late 1960s.
The Defense Ministry said the unit in question is a detachment of the ROK Air Force’s Squadron 2325, which recruited 31 civilians for special missions on April 1, 1968.
``Seven of them died in training, 20 were killed in a rebellion and the four survivors were put to death after military trial,’’ ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Nam Dae-youn said in a press briefing.
Nam added the ministry found five out of the seven men from a village of Okchon, North Chungchong Province, who altogether went missing around the time, had identical names with five of the 31 unit members. ``We cannot confirm if the five are the same people that were members of the unit, because most of records were destroyed. We will have to check further,’’ he said.
Keen public attention was drawn to Unit 684 and the Silmido incident as a movie, portraying the fate of 31 unit members in rebellion, was released late last year.
The unit was launched in retaliation against a North Korean attempt to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-hee in 1968. On Jan. 21, 1968, 31 North Korean agents sneaked into Seoul on a mission to assassinate then-president Park Chung-hee. They almost reached Chong Wa Dae, but most of them were killed in the mountains surrounding the presidential residence.
The number of the unit, 684, stands for the April, 1968 when the unit was founded. The members were trained harshly on a remote, deserted island in the West Sea called Silmido.
The identities of those 31 figures and how they joined the unit are not known, though the movie described them as condemned criminals.
The unit was ready by 1969 for its infiltration mission into Pyongyang, but by that time relations between the two rival Koreas had thawed somewhat, and Seoul reconsidered its assassination plans. The unit members were left isolated on the island, unable to leave, for about three years in conditions described in the film as inhumane.
In August of 1971, unit members rose to kill their overseers and made their way to Chong Wa Dae in rebellion. Most of them, however, committed suicide with their grenades when confronted with troops in Seoul.
jinryu@koreatimes.co.kr
02-06-2004 17:46
Le DVD Z3 est disponible sur YesAsia
http://i3.yesasia.com/assets/imgs/videos/78/l_p1003567178.jpg
http://i3.yesasia.com/assets/imgs/videos/78/l_p1003567178.jpg
http://img11.exs.cx/img11/158/silmido1.jpg
http://img65.exs.cx/img65/9169/silmido14.jpg
http://img65.exs.cx/img65/2720/silmido15.jpg
http://img65.exs.cx/img65/7179/silmido3.jpg
Ce film se base sur des faits réels mais je me demande si la scène finale (bus) s'est réellement déroulée de cette manière.
Allez, un ptit apperçu du scénario pour les ceux et les ceusses qui ne comprennent pas l'ingliche :
1968 : Silmido est une ile coréenne où est etabli un centre d'entrainement de l'unité de force spéciales 684. Cette unité est preparée pour l'assassinat du président nord coréen Kim Il Sung. Cependant, suites à des négociations avec le nord, le KCIA ordonne secrètement de tuer tous les membres de l'unité 684, ne voulant pas risquer d'incident diplomatique à la veille d'une réconciliation...
A voir donc ...