Kim Sun-il Executed by Captors in Iraq Hostage Executed as Soon as Gov't Rejected Iraq Deployment Demands An Unpardonable Act of Barbarism Korean Internet Users Divided on Response to Hostage Slaying Int'l Governments Condemn Beheading of Korean Hostage Foreign Media React to Killing of S. Korean Hostage Booby Traps Installed Around Kim’s Body Kim Sun-il Possibly Abducted on May 31

However, a foreign ministry spokesman said Seoul has ordered the evacuation of all its nationals in Iraq, except for essential personnel.

The spokesman said South Korea strongly condemns the killing of Mr. Kim as "an act of anti-humanitarian terror.

In Washington, President Bush also condemned the execution of Mr. Kim as a "barbaric" act and said the free world would not be intimidated by it.

Speaking at the White House with Hungary's visiting prime minister (Peter Medgyessy) beside him, Mr. Bush said the terrorists are, in his words, "trying to shake our confidence and get us to withdraw and let their dark vision take over."

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