South Korea plan their largest protest against Die Another Day yet

Reuters are reporting that South Korean activist groups will protest outside 140 movie theatres on Saturday, pushing their boycott of "Die Another Day" which has inflamed passions on both sides of the Korean border.

North Korea, mired in a nuclear stand-off with Washington, urged the United States to stop showing "Die Another Day".

"The film portrays the Korean peninsula differently from the way it really is," South Korean activist Kang Hyung-koo told Reuters.

"Most importantly, the timing of the release of the film is rather dangerous and not appropriate."

South Korea`s Yonhap news agency said some cinemas had already stopped showing the movie because of poor ticket sales.

The North Korean news agency has slammed the film as proof of the hostile U.S. intentions towards a country Washington believes is building nuclear weapons.

"The film represents the real intention of the U.S. keen on war as it considers the North as part of an `axis of evil`, fans up division and confrontation between the South and the North and insults and makes mockery of the Korean nation," it said this week.

"Die Another Day" was written by British duo Neal Purvis and Robert Wade shortly after "The World Is Not Enough" was in cinemas.

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