QWhat exotic places does Bond visit in this movie?
AIn the precredits scenario, Bond is undercover on a military base on the Pukch'ong Coast of North Korea negotiating a deal with Colonel Moon (Will Yun Lee) -- diamonds in exchange for weaponry. Bond is taken prisoner when his identity is betrayed in a cellphone transmission to Moon's assistant Zao (Rick Yune). He is subsequently tortured until he is released in a prisoner exchange 14 months later. He is confined for recuperation on a ship near Hong Kong and stripped of his 00 status because M (Judi Dench) believes that he was revealing sensitive information to North Korea during his torture. When Bond learns that M is going to have him moved to an evaluation center in the Falklands, he jumps ship in order to track down his betrayer. From a Chinese Intelligence man posing as a hotel manager, he learns that Zao has been sighted in Havana, Cuba. Once in Cuba, Bond learns that Zao is staying at a gene therapy clinic on an island in the Los Organos. There he meets U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) agent Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson (Halle Berry). Jinx kills the clinic director and Bond blows up the clinic, but Zao escapes. From a necklace that Bond grabbed from Zao's neck, he uncovers several diamonds, all chemically alike to conflict diamonds from Africa and all bearing the mark of Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a diamond miner from Iceland. After making the acquaintance of Graves in a rousing sword fight at the local fencing club, Bond is invited to Iceland to view the unveiling of the Icarus project. In an attempt to stop Graves from using Icarus to cut a path through the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, Bond sneaks aboard an airplane that takes him to the Pyongang Airbase in North Korea.
QIs it ever revealed who betrayed Bond in North Korea?
AEarlier in the movie, when Bond was still in Iceland, he confronts Graves, but Miranda Frost enters the room and points her gun at Bond. Miranda reveals that she has been working as a double agent, both for MI6 and for Graves, and that it was she herself who betrayed Bond to Zao and then leaked military secrets that Bond was accused of revealing during his 14 months of torture.
QWhat is the Icarus project?
AIcarus is an orbital mirror satellite that captures the sun's rays and focuses them at the Earth. It is hailed as a way of providing sunlight and warmth, like a second sun, to the darker parts of the Earth so that crops can be grown to end world hunger. Unfortunately, Icarus can also be used to focus the sun's energy for destructive purposes.
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