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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