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North Korea a Top International Story
Aired January 02, 2003 - 05:33 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well, North Korea is certainly one of the top stories our international desk is following.
Our senior international editor David Clinch is here to tell us all about it.
I like that, shaken not stirred.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Good morning.
Yes, I'm really annoyed. Jie-Ae has given away the end of the film and I haven't seen it yet.
WHITFIELD: Me either.
CLINCH: James Bond wins, imagine that.
WHITFIELD: I know.
CLINCH: Well, we don't have James Bond, but we do have MacKinnon, Rebecca MacKinnon at the DMZ. We've been talking about this for the last few days. We brought her up today. She spent the day at a U.S. military camp very near the DMZ, not inside, but very near. Now, we're not trying to over dramatize the story here, but we felt it was worthwhile illustrating the fact that there's no military buildup, but there are a lot of American troops in South Korea very close, so close at this camp, particular camp is so close you can smell North Korea across the border.
Again, no military buildup, no sense of tension there amongst the Americans, but they're prepared for whatever might happen. And we're going to actually go inside the DMZ later on today, hopefully later on tonight Eastern time, which will be Friday in Korea, be live from inside the DMZ itself.
Again, not over dramatizing, just illustrating how close the two militaries are.
WHITFIELD: Just getting a look at it. Sure.
CLINCH: So, we'll stay on that story.
Now, in Pakistan, as we've been reporting, this fellow in Pakistan who's seen his picture on the FBI list and has now come to local media, and then we were able to track him down today. We actually got a sit down interview with this fellow and we'll feed it later on today. We know what his new year's resolution is -- never buy a fake passport again...
WHITFIELD: No kidding. (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
CLINCH: Because he did that, apparently, a couple of months ago, a forged British passport, trying to move to Britain, he says, which, you know, he certainly would not be the first Pakistani to try to do that. That seems like a reasonable explanation, although we don't really know much more than what he's telling us. He bought this fake passport, wasn't able to get to Britain.
He, his theory, his personal theory is that the forgers who sold him that then used his photograph to produce documents for somebody else, perhaps. And that's why his photograph, but not his name, has turned up on this FBI list.
WHITFIELD: Right.
CLINCH: So, again, we tracked him down today. It seems to be a case of mistaken identity, but points out that the problem that you have, that there is a difference between a photograph of a person, a real person and then their name. All of those three things do not necessarily gel together when you put up something on an FBI list of people you're looking for, because there's a difference, especially in the Muslim world, particularly, where you have names that are very similar and things like that.
WHITFIELD: Right.
CLINCH: So, we'll interview this guy today. It seems to be more a question of mistaken identity than anything else so.
WHITFIELD: OK.
CLINCH: And then one other thing, Solomon Islands story, a very fascinating story of this massive, massive storm that crossed nearly a week ago now over these very small islands out in the Pacific, winds of up to 225 miles an hour. Now, we got some pictures yesterday. These islands had not been heard from in a week. Nobody of the three or four thousand people who lived there was able to communicate with the outside world.
We got some pictures yesterday from a freelance photographer. We got some more pictures today which showed similar devastation, but a little bit more encouraging news, a little bit more authoritative information about, perhaps, illustrating that more people have survived than we originally thought.
But, still, an absolute scene of devastation out there.
WHITFIELD: So only about three or four thousand people?
CLINCH: There are only three or four thousand people who live there...
WHITFIELD: Who live there? CLINCH: At one stage it was thought they might all be dead. There are clearly some people alive, according to the Australians that flew over today. But they weren't able to land.
WHITFIELD: Wow.
CLINCH: We may not know for another week exactly how many people are alive or died, you know?
WHITFIELD: Yes. That's a...
CLINCH: Hopefully nobody died but...
WHITFIELD: That's a tough story to tell in a situation like that.
CLINCH: It is. They flew over. They could see it but they can't land.
WHITFIELD: Yes.
CLINCH: So some aid will hopefully arrive within a week or so.
WHITFIELD: All right, a full plate for you all today.
CLINCH: OK.
WHITFIELD: All right, thanks, David.
CLINCH: All right.
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Aired January 2, 2003 - 05:33 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well, North Korea is certainly one of the top stories our international desk is following.
Our senior international editor David Clinch is here to tell us all about it.
I like that, shaken not stirred.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Good morning.
Yes, I'm really annoyed. Jie-Ae has given away the end of the film and I haven't seen it yet.
WHITFIELD: Me either.
CLINCH: James Bond wins, imagine that.
WHITFIELD: I know.
CLINCH: Well, we don't have James Bond, but we do have MacKinnon, Rebecca MacKinnon at the DMZ. We've been talking about this for the last few days. We brought her up today. She spent the day at a U.S. military camp very near the DMZ, not inside, but very near. Now, we're not trying to over dramatize the story here, but we felt it was worthwhile illustrating the fact that there's no military buildup, but there are a lot of American troops in South Korea very close, so close at this camp, particular camp is so close you can smell North Korea across the border.
Again, no military buildup, no sense of tension there amongst the Americans, but they're prepared for whatever might happen. And we're going to actually go inside the DMZ later on today, hopefully later on tonight Eastern time, which will be Friday in Korea, be live from inside the DMZ itself.
Again, not over dramatizing, just illustrating how close the two militaries are.
WHITFIELD: Just getting a look at it. Sure.
CLINCH: So, we'll stay on that story.
Now, in Pakistan, as we've been reporting, this fellow in Pakistan who's seen his picture on the FBI list and has now come to local media, and then we were able to track him down today. We actually got a sit down interview with this fellow and we'll feed it later on today. We know what his new year's resolution is -- never buy a fake passport again...
WHITFIELD: No kidding. (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
CLINCH: Because he did that, apparently, a couple of months ago, a forged British passport, trying to move to Britain, he says, which, you know, he certainly would not be the first Pakistani to try to do that. That seems like a reasonable explanation, although we don't really know much more than what he's telling us. He bought this fake passport, wasn't able to get to Britain.
He, his theory, his personal theory is that the forgers who sold him that then used his photograph to produce documents for somebody else, perhaps. And that's why his photograph, but not his name, has turned up on this FBI list.
WHITFIELD: Right.
CLINCH: So, again, we tracked him down today. It seems to be a case of mistaken identity, but points out that the problem that you have, that there is a difference between a photograph of a person, a real person and then their name. All of those three things do not necessarily gel together when you put up something on an FBI list of people you're looking for, because there's a difference, especially in the Muslim world, particularly, where you have names that are very similar and things like that.
WHITFIELD: Right.
CLINCH: So, we'll interview this guy today. It seems to be more a question of mistaken identity than anything else so.
WHITFIELD: OK.
CLINCH: And then one other thing, Solomon Islands story, a very fascinating story of this massive, massive storm that crossed nearly a week ago now over these very small islands out in the Pacific, winds of up to 225 miles an hour. Now, we got some pictures yesterday. These islands had not been heard from in a week. Nobody of the three or four thousand people who lived there was able to communicate with the outside world.
We got some pictures yesterday from a freelance photographer. We got some more pictures today which showed similar devastation, but a little bit more encouraging news, a little bit more authoritative information about, perhaps, illustrating that more people have survived than we originally thought.
But, still, an absolute scene of devastation out there.
WHITFIELD: So only about three or four thousand people?
CLINCH: There are only three or four thousand people who live there...
WHITFIELD: Who live there? CLINCH: At one stage it was thought they might all be dead. There are clearly some people alive, according to the Australians that flew over today. But they weren't able to land.
WHITFIELD: Wow.
CLINCH: We may not know for another week exactly how many people are alive or died, you know?
WHITFIELD: Yes. That's a...
CLINCH: Hopefully nobody died but...
WHITFIELD: That's a tough story to tell in a situation like that.
CLINCH: It is. They flew over. They could see it but they can't land.
WHITFIELD: Yes.
CLINCH: So some aid will hopefully arrive within a week or so.
WHITFIELD: All right, a full plate for you all today.
CLINCH: OK.
WHITFIELD: All right, thanks, David.
CLINCH: All right.
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