A video image released June 22, 2004 by Al Jazeera TV shows armed gunmen, standing over a kneeling, blindfolded figure dressed in orange, saying they were about to carry out their threat. Militants beheaded a South Korean hostage in Iraq on Tuesday after Seoul refused their demand to withdraw its troops.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

A video image released June 22, 2004 by Al Jazeera TV shows armed gunmen, standing over a kneeling, blindfolded figure dressed in orange, saying they were about to carry out their threat. Militants beheaded a South Korean hostage in Iraq on Tuesday after Seoul refused their demand to withdraw its troops.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Parents of Kim Soong Il were in deep grief after hearing the news that their son had been beheaded, June 23, 2004, Seoul.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

South Korean civic groups, ordinary citizens and college students are escalating calls for the cancellation of the government's planned deployment of additional troops to Iraq, June 21, 2004.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

South Korean civic groups, ordinary citizens and college students are escalating calls for the cancellation of the government's planned deployment of additional troops to Iraq, June 21, 2004.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

South Korean civic groups, ordinary citizens and college students are escalating calls for the cancellation of the government's planned deployment of additional troops to Iraq, June 21, 2004.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

South Korean civic groups, ordinary citizens and college students are escalating calls for the cancellation of the government's planned deployment of additional troops to Iraq, June 21, 2004.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

South Korean civic groups, ordinary citizens and college students are escalating calls for the cancellation of the government's planned deployment of additional troops to Iraq, June 21, 2004.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Parents of Kim Sun-il, a South Korean man held hostage in Iraq, -- Kim Jong-gyu(L) and Shin Young-ja(R) -- pleaded for their son's release, June 21, 2004.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)