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You want us to do what? - the couple had been kidnapped and forced to live in North Korea for years before they found out the truth.

The wife was a former beloved movie actress. The husband was an award-winning film director. And now North Korea had kidnapped them to make movies for Kim Jong Il.

It sounds like a fictional story - but it was very much real. And the couple’s lives depended on how good of a movie they could make.

(Please listen to Part 1 before this episode!)

Book Rec: “A Kim Jong Il Production” - by Paul Fischer (Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10)

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3e:T493,

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 letters of love to the men who ordered it.

She started the letter - Dear Kim Jong Il The Supreme Leader of North Korea…

Book Rec: “A Kim Jong Il Production” - by Paul Fischer (Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10)

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Kim Jong-il Part 2: Time to Make a Movie...