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Colonel Tan-Sun Moon runs a weapons trade in African conflict diamonds from a North Korean base, and James Bond enters under another man's identity. Zao receives word of Bond's real identity, and a hovercraft chase follows. North Korean soldiers capture Bond, and General Moon holds him for fourteen months. He is then traded across the Bridge of No Return for Zao and taken to M, who suspends his Double-0 status, suspecting he leaked information under duress. Bond is sure a double agent in the British government set him up. He escapes MI6 custody and reaches Hong Kong, where Chang tells him Zao is in Cuba. In Havana he meets the NSA agent Jinx Johnson and trails her to a clinic where appearances are altered. Zao gets away, leaving a pendant behind.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Die Another Day (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Lee Tamahori pitched a scene where Pierce Brosnan's 007 meets an older, former 007 in Scotland played by Sean Connery, but was advised that putting two 007s in one movie was too dangerous.
- South Koreans boycotted 145 theaters showing Die Another Day, offended by a scene in which an American officer orders the South Korean army to defend their homeland and by a sex scene near a statue of the Buddha; North Korea disliked its portrayal as brutal and war-hungry.
- Twenty companies paying $70 million had their products featured in Die Another Day, a record at the time, though USA Today reported the figure could be as high as $100 million.
- Halle Berry was injured while filming Die Another Day when debris from a smoke grenade flew into her eye, and the debris was removed in a 30-minute operation.
- The satellite attack at the end of Die Another Day was first written to take place in Manhattan, but after the September 11 attacks it was moved to the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
- For the car chase on Iceland's Jökulsárlón lagoon, four Aston Martins and four Jaguars were converted to four-wheel drive and wrecked, and a temporary dam was built at the inlet's mouth to keep the salty ocean water out so the lagoon could freeze.
- In the planned Jinx spin-off, Halle Berry and Michael Madsen were to reprise their roles as Jinx and Falco, while Jinx's lover was to be played by Javier Bardem, who later played the villain Raoul Silva in Skyfall.
