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Sep 2021
1h 18m

#95: Kidnapped By North Korea Part 1 (Ca...

STEPHANIE SOO
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She couldn’t believe it. They wanted her to write a letter to her kidnappers thanking them for all that they have done for her.  Are these people out of their minds? She missed her old life in South Korea - she had been a famous movie actress, her children, freedom, she missed it all.  Now she was kidnapped in a foreign country forced to write lett ... Show More
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