(CNN) -- The Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape Sunday night of a man identified as a South Korean hostage whose captors threatened to behead him unless his government quits the U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq.
On the videotape the man cried in English, "Please get out of here. I don't want to die. ... Your life is important, but my life is important."
The South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed that the man shown in the videotape is Kim Sun-il, 33, who works for a trading company. It was not known when or how he was taken hostage.
The Foreign Ministry planned an emergency meeting Monday morning to discuss Seoul's reaction to the development and steps to take toward Kim's release.
An official with the South Korean Embassy in Washington said South Korea has about 600 troops in the country and plans to send another 3,000.
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Looks like beheadings will become common now.