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Kim Jong-il had a South Korean actress kidnapped to make him movies

Choi Eun-hee was one of South Korea's biggest film stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978 she traveled to Hong Kong to meet a supposed businessman about a new film company. "In Hong Kong, Choi was abducted and taken to North Korea by the order of Kim Jong Il." — Read the rest The post Kim Jong-il had a South Korean actress kidnapped to make him movies appeared first on Boing Boing.

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