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	Kim Sun-il - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kim Sun-il (September 13, 1970 – June 22, 2004) was a South Korean translator working in Iraq for Gana General Trading Company, a South Korean company under contract to the United States military.
		Kim was fluent in Arabic, holding a graduate degree in that language from Seoul's Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in February 2003.
		On May 30, 2004, Kim was abducted in Fallujah — about 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad — by the Islamist group Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'l Jihad (in English, "Monotheism and Holy Struggle"), and held as a hostage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Sun-il (491 words)

	Kim Il Sung killer file
		Kim is described as the "iron-willed, ever-victorious commander", the "great sun and great man", the "great leader", the "great father", the "sun of the nation", the "clairvoyant", "the supreme brain of the nation", a "matchless patriot" and "national hero", and "one of the genius leaders of the international communist movement and workers' movement".
		Kim Il Sung dismisses Chun's statement as "a preposterous slander" and suggests that the bombing was "masterminded" by Chun for a "hideous purpose".
		Kim Jong Il is also reported to have concealed the depth of the country's economic crisis and the extent of its famine from his father, and to have opposed reunification with the South.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/kim-il-sung.html (7462 words)

	Kim Il Sung Article, KimSung Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim was sent to a school in Jilin, but his formal education ended when he was arrested and jailed for subversive activities.He joined various anti-Japanese guerilla groups in northern China, eventually becoming a member of the Northeast Anti-JapaneseUnited Army, a guerrilla group led by the CommunistParty of China.
		When Kim returned to Korea in September 1945 with the Soviet occupation forces, he was installed by the Soviets as head of the Provisional People's Committee,but he was not at this time the head of the Communist Party, whose headquarters were in Seoul in the American -occupied south.
		Kim married his second wife, Kim Song-ae, in 1962, and it is believed he had four children with her.
	www.anoca.org /dprk/he/kim_il_sung.html (1308 words)

	Kim Sun-Il - Kidnapped, Beheaded By Al-Qaeda (Al-Qaida)
		U.S. soldiers found the body of Kim Sun-il, 33, late Tuesday afternoon on a roadside between Baghdad and Fallujah, the city west of Iraq's capital in the Sunni Triangle where he was abducted last Thursday.
		Kim's shoulders were heaving, his mouth open and moving as if he were gulping air and sobbing.
		Kim, an evangelical Christian who spoke Arabic, was working as a translator for a South Korean contractor that provides supplies to the U.S. military in Iraq.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews5/kimsunil.htm (906 words)

	USATODAY.com - 3,000 mourn at funeral for slain South Korean hostage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old translator at a company supplying the U.S. military, was killed by Islamic militants on June 22, after South Korea refused to bow to his captors' demand to cancel plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq beginning in August.
		Kim was later buried in a Christian cemetery, as friends and relatives released 200 white balloons, according to local news reports.
		Kim's body was returned to his hometown of Busan on South Korea's southeast coast Saturday, his coffin draped in the national flag.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-06-30-skorea-hostage_x.htm (597 words)

	Kim-Il-Sung
		April 15, 1912 - Kim Il Sung (photo: Kim was born Kim Sun Ju) was born in N Korea, the eldest of three sons by a village couple named Kim Hyonh Jik and Kang Pan Sok.
		Kim Il Sung was commander of the 6th Division, 2nd Army, 1st Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army.
		Kim Il Sung and his partisans were pressed into the 88th Special Independent Guerrilla Brigade of the Soviet Army.
	www.kimsoft.com /korea/kimilsun.htm (2210 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		Kim Sun-il, 33, a student of Arabic, was working for a South Korean military contractor engaged in the US-led reconstruction of Iraq.
		While there was a substantial swing, about 20%, away from supporting the dispatch when news broke that Kim was being held and a guarantee by the government not to dispatch more troops would lead to his release, most swung back to their original opinion on the issue after he was killed.
		Kim's age and circumstance - stories of how he was struggling to secure the money for further university theological study - resonate with many South Koreans, especially those 20 to 30-something swing voters who hold the key to the Roh government's survival.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FF30Dg03.html (1433 words)

	South Korean hostage executed - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Kim Sun-il knelt in front of three captors in a videotape sent Sunday to Arab media.
		The South Korean Embassy in Baghdad confirmed that the body was Kim’s by studying a picture of the remains it received by e-mail, Shin said.
		Kim, described as a devout Christian, studied Arabic as well as English in South Korea.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5256382 (1037 words)

	S. Korean Is Beheaded in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
		Kim's captors, a group that identified itself as Jamaat al-Tawhid and Jihad, had threatened in a videotape released late Sunday to kill him unless South Korea agreed to withdraw the 660 troops it has in Iraq and cancel a planned deployment of 3,000 additional forces to northern Iraq.
		Kim, an evangelical Christian who had studied Arabic, English and theology, was working as a translator for a South Korean contractor that provided supplies to the U.S. military in Iraq.
		The parents of Kim Sun Il, a South Korean contractor kidnapped Thursday in Fallujah, Iraq, react to news of their son's fate.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A62068-2004Jun22.html (773 words)

	Iraqi insurgents behead South Korean translator - The Washington Times: World - June 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim's body alongside the road between Baghdad and Fallujah yesterday evening, dashing hopes raised earlier when kidnappers extended the 24-hour deadline, which was issued on a Web site on Sunday.
		Kim, an Arabic translator working for a Korean company selling goods to the U.S. military, was abducted in Fallujah by a group that U.S. intelligence considers to be closely linked to the Jordanian terrorist Zarqawi.
		Kim was shown wearing an orange jumpsuit like those worn by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison and a matching blindfold, clearly terrified and gasping for breath.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040623-120618-6545r.htm (989 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kim Sun-il (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
		June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining.
		June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kim-Sun_il (1758 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| S Korea resolute on Iraq troops
		Kim's militant Islamic captors had demanded that South Korea pull its several hundred troops out of Iraq, and cancel plans to deploy 3,000 more.
		Mr Kim had been working for a security company supplying the US military, when he was abducted last week.
		In the footage aired on al-Jazeera, Mr Kim was shown kneeling on the ground and blindfolded in front of five masked men.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3831553.stm (663 words)

	Ramblings' Journal: South Korean Hostage Kim Sun-il Beheaded
		Kim Sun-il had been held hostage by suspected Al Qaeda-linked abductors, who originally said they'd kill him Tuesday but then extended that deadline during negotiations, according to Ahmed al-Ghreiri, an employee with the NKTS security firm that is acting as an intermediary.
		Kim's body has been found by US forces west of Baghdad.
		Kim Sun-il was a Christian murdered by Islamic extremists.Do we not have Christian extremists to take revenge.
	mhking.mu.nu /archives/033059.php (501 words)

	CNN.com - Pentagon: South Korean hostage beheaded - Jun 22, 2004
		Kim, 33, was seized Thursday in Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
		Kim, Berg and Paul Johnson -- killed last week by his captors in Saudi Arabia -- were all shown in videos wearing orange jumpsuits similar to those worn by detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
		Han Sung-joo, the South Korean ambassador to the United States, said Kim's death was "a very deplorable event," and he took issue with the militants' claims that the Koreans were not helping the Iraqis.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/06/22/iraq.hostage (1069 words)

	KoreaTimes : Hostage Dreamed of Missionary Work in Arab Nations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim Sun-il, the 33-year-old Korean being held captive by Iraqi insurgents, first went to Iraq in June of last year as a translator for a Korean trading company.
		Kim's family said that he dreamed of conducting missionary work in Arab countries and was soon to be ordained as a minister.
		Kim told his family in April of last year of his plans to go to Iraq and said not to worry as he would be well protected while working as a translator.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/200406/kt2004062114364010160.htm (239 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| S Korean hostage beheaded in Iraq
		The beheaded body of translator Kim Sun-il, 33, was found on the road between Baghdad and Falluja.
		Mr Kim was working for a security company supplying the US military when he was abducted last week.
		Korea's Baghdad embassy confirmed the body was Mr Kim by checking a picture of the remains that it received by e-mail from the US military.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3830843.stm (667 words)

	CNN.com - Seoul blocks beheading video - Jun 24, 2004
		Kim, a 33-year-old Arabic-speaking interpreter, was an evangelical Christian who had worked in Iraq for a year for a South Korean firm supplying the U.S. army.
		The news of Kim's slaying Wednesday was met with sorrow and outrage around the world, with South Koreans rallying close to the U.S. embassy in Seoul, late on Wednesday.
		Kim's body was found by U.S. military police west of Baghdad and appeared to have been thrown from a vehicle.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/06/24/iraq.hostage.reax/index.html (514 words)

	Beheading of Kim Sun-il fuels South Korean protests over troop deployment
		The president condemned the savagery of Kim’s murder but declared that there would be “no change” to plans to send troops to Iraq.
		Prior to Kim’s murder, hundreds of emails—both in English and Korean—were sent to the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera, to make clear that not all South Koreans supported the war.
		Kim’s murder has encouraged right-wing groups to urge the dispatch of troops and to whip up racialist sentiment.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/kore-j26.shtml (1265 words)

	The Command Post - Iraq - Al-Jazeera Airs Video of S. Korea Hostage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim, was in Iraq with his toolbox and not with an assualt rifle.
		Kim Chun-ho, head of South Korea's Gana General Trading, Co., told a Yonhap reporter in Baghdad by phone from Mosul that some of the abductees were seen by an Iraqi go-between who had visited the kidnappers to try negotiating the South Korean's release.
		Kim was abducted on June 17, and his employer tried to negotiate his freedom before notifying the South Korean government, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said earlier Monday.
	www.command-post.org /2_archives/012960.html (4540 words)

	tBLOG - # go away User-agent: * Disallow: / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Interestingly enough, on June 18, immediately after Kim Seon Il was kidnapped, the Korean government announced it was going ahead with deploying troops to Iraq, and the armed group holding him is demanding the decision be withdrawn.
		However, Kim's death revealed that having the "right" opinions is no guarantee of survival in a war zone and it will not prevent actual terrorists from killing anyone to achieve their ends.
		Kim' s death also revealed that being a Korean abroad will not necessarily result in warm embraces and expressions of gratitude from "oppressed" peoples, regardless of how nice or good a person is or what truths he or she holds to be evident.
	www.tblog.com /templates/index.php?bid=rathbonepress&static=212421 (7047 words)

	The murder of Kim Sun-il - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - June 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim's televised heart-rending pleading for his life, the butchers proceeded with the monstrous crime.
		Kim's slaying, and he remains committed to the fight.
		Sun proves for the second time in recent days that negotiation with such savages is pointless.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040623-090347-6383r.htm (419 words)

	More on Kim Sun-il Beheading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the video, Kim's kidnappers ask him questions about who he is, when he was born, where he was from, and what his job was.
		Kim appears fairly composed in the video clip, unlike in later videos which show him frightened and under great duress.
		AP was not sure if Kim Sun-il was in danger at that time, but informed the Korean Foreign Ministry about the tape.
	www.tblog.com /templates/index.php?bid=rathbonepress&static=212421 (986 words)

	AsiaMedia :: KOREA: AP didn't mention Kim Sun-il's name
		It is the first time for the AP to publicly react to the Kim Sun-il case after Jack Stokes, AP’s media relations director in New York, released a short statement on June 24.
		Meanwhile, Kim Chun-ho, who hired Kim Sun-il as a translator in his foodstuff firm supplying the U.S. Army in Iraq, told lawmakers that the Seoul government’s announcement of its firm commitment to the dispatch of additional troops to Iraq had irritated the captors, ruining his negotiation efforts.
		Kim Chun-ho also explained that he did not report Kim’s disappearance to the Korean Embassy or the U.S. Army in Baghdad because he wanted to rescue Kim through private negotiations as he thought diplomatic channels would be useless in Iraq’s state of anarchy.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=13215 (898 words)

	The Marmot's (Final) Hole: Kim Sun-il case news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim Cheon-ho, the president of Gana Trading (for which the late Kim Sun-il worked) returned to Korea on Wednesday and was literally mugged by reporters at the airport.
		Kim Tae-gyeong over at OhMyNews thinks that, official denials to the contrary, just about every one knew about Kim's kidnapping before the news broke.
		Kim's funeral was held in Busan -- "peace" and "love for Iraq" seemed to be the themes of the day.
	marmot.blogs.com /korea/2004/07/kim_sunil_case_.html (271 words)

	Talk:Kim Sun-il - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Kim is executed, Korean TVs and Radios talk about the event all day, and people gather in the streets of major cities to pray for Kim.
		It is such a tragic event for us who speak the same language and share the same background to some extend, and who see the parents of Kim crying over the death of their only son.
		I believe the that hiding/censoring the links would do a greater injustice to Kim Sun-il than if the links were shown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Kim_Sun-il (2326 words)

	The beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-il
		Nor could they be oblivious to the immense crisis of the Bush administration, which is reeling from revelations of US torture, the exposure of all the lies it employed to generate support for the war, and the mounting toll of both American and Iraqi casualties.
		The murder of Kim Sun-il occurred on the very day a new Washington Post poll was released showing a clear majority of Americans opposed to the war and a further erosion in Bush’s approval rating.
		That the actions of those responsible for the beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-il play into the hands of imperialism and cut across the development of a politically conscious and international movement against war, as well as the liberation of the Saudi and Iraqi people, is neither accidental nor peculiar to these specific groups.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/behe-j23.shtml (1580 words)

	S Korea blocks Kim Sun-Il video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The South Korean Ministry of Information and Communication said on Thursday the ban followed reports that a video showing the beheading of Kim Sun-Il, 33, by suspected al-Qaida operatives was circulating on the internet.
		Kim, a translator for a South Korean company supplying US troops with food and equipment, was killed by masked men who identified themselves as members of the Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unification and Holy War) group.
		A video showing Kim before the killing was aired by Aljazeera.
	prisonplanet.com /articles/june2004/062404blocksvideo.htm (253 words)

	KoreaTimes : `Please Save Our Son at All Costs,' Family Cries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim's family members said that they did not worry too much of his safety as he had reassured them he was doing translation work in the rear and out of harm's way.
		Saying that Kim's life cannot be saved if the government decides to go ahead with sending additional troops to Iraq, Kim's family urged the government to reconsider their decision.
		The parents of Kim Sun-il, the South Korean worker being held by Iraqi insurgents, weep as they hold a picture of their son at their home in Pusan, Monday.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/200406/kt2004062115570310160.htm (345 words)

	South Korean hostage is alive - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kim Sun-il, the kidnapped South Korean hostage is still alive and the Iraqi group holding him have agreed to give more time for talks on his fate, an Iraqi mediator says.
		Choi Seung-gap, president of NKTS, which provides bodyguards to Jordan's royal family, told YTN television Kim was safe but did not make clear whether his Iraqi co-worker had seen the hostage, giving space for more talks to decide on Kim’s fate.
		Kim had been planning to return to South Korea next month to celebrate his father's 70th birthday.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=2293 (769 words)

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