SEOUL: Deadly space laser aside, some South Koreans are finding another aspect of the latest James Bond flick hard to swallow – its depiction of neighbouring North Korea as a diabolically evil regime and the whole Korean peninsula as a backward underling to Western saviours.
Die Another Day attracted crowds at its Seoul premiere on New Year's Eve. But since then many South Koreans are siding with the communist North in panning the film, despite the nuclear standoff that has recently boosted tensions between the countries.