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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(muffled cheering)
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(siren wailing)
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(Indistinct chatter)
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Spokesman: Ladies and gentlemen of the press...
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Man: Out of the way! Come on, down.
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Give somebody else a break.
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Spokesman: I have been provided
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with the following background information.
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Mr. Shin and Miss Choi are both nationals of South Korea
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and are married.
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Mr. Shin was a well-known director
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and Miss Choi a famous actress
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in the South Korean film industry.
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Some eight years ago, Miss Choi appeared in North Korea
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after having been in Hong Kong.
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Subsequently, Mr. Shin travelled to Hong Kong
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and later appeared in North Korea.
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Today's conference is held at the request
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of Mr. Shin and Miss Choi.
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The Shin couple will have an opening statement
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after I have finished my...
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(chuckles)
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(indistinct chatter)
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(applause)
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(camera shutter clicks)
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(applause)
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Narrator: Kim Jong-il's leadership of Korea.
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Mount Paektu, the mountain that chimes
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with the history of the Korean revolution,
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carries the great history of the leadership of Korea
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By Kim Jong-il.
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Inheriting the qualities of president Kim Il-sung,
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a peerless hero of Korea,
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and Kim Jong-suk,
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a woman hero of the anti-Japanese revolution,
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Kim Jong-il has led the Korean revolution
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for several decades.
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In the mid-1960s,
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when the situation in Korea and the world was complicated,
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Kim Jong-il started working
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at the central committee of the workers' party of Korea,
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the general staff of the Korean revolution.
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Whenever the us imperialists resorted to high-handedness
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with regard to Korea,
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he'd put them to shame, displaying the wisdom
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and mettle of an iron-willed commander.
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(applause)
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(cheering)
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In the 1960s, I was working
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in a military-intelligence organization in South Korea.
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But I didn't have any connection with the film business.
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I was just in the audience.
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My job was to interrogate North Korean defectors
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and arrest North Korean espionage agents.
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(cheering)
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In the 1970s, the North Korean Workers' Party
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recognized Kim Jong-il as his father's heir apparent.
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So he started to build up his own power base.
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During that period, there was a very severe power struggle,
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to protect Kim Jong-il's power
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and his succession to power after his father.
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Many, many people were killed and purged.
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(cheering)
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All of them are brainwashed.
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All of them are brainwashed.
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But the interrogator's job is to crack him.
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To make him understand the true story, the true facts,
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of what's going on.
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♪ (man sings in Korean) ♪
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(chuckles)
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(shouting)
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Interviewer: Can you describe what you heard on the tapes?
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Because you told us before that you have heard
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Kim Jong-il's voice, and not many people have.
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I cannot do that.
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Interviewer: I know you can't explain how you heard it,
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but can you explain that you knew they were real?
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And that this was really Kim Jong-il?
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I cannot tell you the circumstances.
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Interviewer: Yes, of course.
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Okay, let's... Let's start. Okay.
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I mentioned five tapes
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that were released to the South Korean authorities
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and I recognized Kim Jong-il's voice.
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(scratchy interference on tape)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(Kim's Jong-il's indistinct speech on tape recorder)
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Choi: Okay.
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Mm.
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(train whistle blows)
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(groaning)
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(indistinct chatter)
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Iain T.A. Hall: We received a phone call,
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from the Furama Hotel,
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that one of their guests had left the hotel without paying,
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in circumstances which they were unfamiliar with.
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I think it was a Sunday.
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Just about to come off my particular shift.
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And because Hong Kong is such a massive place
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with so many people,
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missing people, missing persons cases, were, as you can imagine,
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happening quite frequently.
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But because this case involved a foreign national,
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i.e. not a local Hong Kong person,
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we had to pay particular attention.
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When we got to the hotel, everything was in its place.
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All her suitcases, her personal belongings.
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The bathroom had all the cosmetics that you'd expect
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from someone who's staying there
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and had no intention of leaving in a hurry.
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So we soon realized that we were on to something here
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which wasn't just a missing person.
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Why has she come to Hong Kong?
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Who asked her? Why was she there?
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And why had she mysteriously just disappeared,
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as it would seem, off the face of the Earth with no trace?
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Yi: Choi was divorced...
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with a big bank debt.
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One Korean lady approached Choi Eun-hee,
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and she said, "Well, we have a very rich person in Hong Kong.
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She's also in the film business."
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Her name was Lee Sang-hee.
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At the time, the South Korean government didn't know,
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Choi didn't know, I didn't...
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Nobody knew she was a North Korean agent.
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(ship horn blows)
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(camera shutter clicks)
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Hall: On the 30th February, 1978,
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we searched Lee Sang-hee's apartment at Queen's Road East.
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It was quite revealing what we found.
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A used North Korean airline ticket.
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And also, a film script called Woman Slave Ship,
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which was one of Shin's film scripts.
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I remember the first time I met Shin.
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There was something quite distinctive about him.
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He had a bit of a swagger, good-looking and very confident.
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It's difficult to articulate instinct,
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but we felt there was something about Shin
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that didn't sit comfortably with us.
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His answers were somewhat inconsistent,
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and he appeared to be very evasive.
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He was quite clear that he had nothing to do with it,
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but wanted to have police protection.
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He felt that Choi had been abducted by the North Koreans.
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He was obviously quite concerned
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about what was going to happen to him.
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Yi: Many different stories spread.
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Speculations.
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Shin contacted Kim Kyu-hwa.
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He was Shin's old friend and business partner.
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But Shin did not know...
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he was also a North Korean agent.
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(projector whirs)
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♪ (film soundtrack plays) ♪
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(shouting)
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(gunshot)
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Pierre Rissient: I was in Hong Kong for the film festival.
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And because I had heard about Shin Sang-ok,
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I wanted to meet him and to see some of his films.
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I do not remember exactly how it came about.
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I remember that I found out that he was at this hotel,
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that I was surprised that it was such a cheap hotel.
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Clearly, he was not doing well.
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From 1974,
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the South Korean government decided to stop his activities.
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He was not authorized to make films.
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He was an outcast in Korea.
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He had to try to find work somewhere else.
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Rissient: The suspicion was that he was dead.
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The suspicion that he could have been killed by the Korean CIA.
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(boat engine whirs)
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(tape recorder clicks)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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♪ (singing Korean opera) ♪
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♪ (opera continues) ♪
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(applause)
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(tape recorder clicks)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(hammering)
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(whistle blows)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(inaudible)
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(sighs)
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♪ (film soundtrack plays) ♪
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(chuckles)
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(Indistinct chatter)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(inaudible)
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David Straub: Kim Jong-il had a most bizarre childhood.
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He was clearly an awful leader and an awful person,
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as an adult.
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But one has to feel a little sympathy for this boy,
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unable to live anything like a normal childhood.
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Apparently, the decision was made
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that Kim Jong-il couldn't play with other children.
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So he had only a tiny number of playmates.
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He was put in an enormous house to live,
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given a huge room stuffed with toys.
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(applause)
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Undoubtedly, being raised that way must have contributed
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to the very odd personality that Kim Jong-il developed.
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As early as the early seventies,
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Kim Il-sung was having his son, Kim Jong-il, groomed
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to succeed him.
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(muffled applause)
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And yet, the people's respect for Kim Jong-il
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was much less than it was for his father, Kim Il-sung.
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Kim Jong-il was not the founder, he was the son.
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He inherited his position.
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He was much shorter than his father.
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(inaudible)
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And his father was quite outgoing.
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He looked like a politician.
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He laughed, he slapped people on the shoulder.
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And Kim Jong-il was clearly, in ways, self-aware
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and knew that he was not charismatic.
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He was introverted, shy.
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He never really spoke publically to his people.
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Kim Jong-il thought of himself as an artiste.
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(inaudible)
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But in the late 1970s,
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Kim Jong-il was actually running the country, for the most part.
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Kim Il-sung probably had the last word,
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but he was very much, in many respects,
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the retired grandfather,
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and I don't think he was watching very closely
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what Kim Jong-il was doing.
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♪ (big band music plays) ♪
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(inaudible)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(canon fire)
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- (shouting) - (explosions)
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(roars)
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(explosion)
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(explosion)
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♪ (film soundtrack plays) ♪
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♪ (sings in Korean) ♪
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(laughing)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(laughing)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(Kim Jong-il laughs)
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Narrator: Korea, a land of morning calm.
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Jong-il peak soars high in Mount Paektu.
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The dear leader, comrade Kim Jong-il, was born
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In this historic house in the secret camp, below the peak.
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The mountain is a mysterious one,
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where wonders are made.
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(birds singing)
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(muffled cheering)
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(inaudible)
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(chuckles)
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(cheering and applause)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(laughing)
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(Kim Jong-il laughs)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(muffled cheering)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(speaking Korean)
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(speaking Korean)
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Choi:
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(Choi chuckles)
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(chuckles)
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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Rissient: He was shooting a picture in Prague.
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It was a kind of sensation.
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Shin Sang-ok had surfaced in Prague,
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shooting a film for North Korea.
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He was full of ambition...
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speaking of the studio which he was building,
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bringing new equipment with him, to make films,
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and producing films.
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And I guess he was close to...
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the man he was in the sixties, when he was so successful.
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He was certainly very happy.
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I suppose you're from Korea, aren't you?
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I came here on some business.
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Welcome.
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(inaudible)
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Derek Malcolm: They were accompanied by about
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at least 20 heavies,
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whom, I gathered, were...
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I thought were North Korean security people.
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They were definitely guarding these people.
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All in the same suit. It was very strange.
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They were all in exactly the same dark suit.
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I don't know... They seemed sort of friendly.
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It did seem as if there was something slightly odd going on.
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Yi: They went to the Berlin International Film Festival.
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And there, they met South Korean friends
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attending this festival.
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Shin and Choi showed very cold shoulder to them.
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"Okay, we're doing very good in North Korea.
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You cannot even imagine how much the party is supporting us.
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We are freely making films as we want.
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We are perfectly okay in North Korea.
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There is no country in the world
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better than North Korea to be in the film business."
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North Korean watchdog security guards
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reported to Kim Jong-il when they got back to Pyongyang.
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"Oh, now, don't say anything.
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Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee
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are absolutely loyal to North Korea.
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They are loyal to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il."
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And they started to obtain more confidence
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from these two leaders.
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And they gave them better treatment.
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That was the beginning of Shin and Choi
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starting to think about escaping from North Korea.
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(chuckles)
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Choi: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(indistinct chatter)
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(chanting)
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Shin Sang-ok: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(tape clicks)
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Straub: Out of the blue,
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I received a telephone call from a lady,
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saying that she was associated
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with Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee,
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and she needed to talk to me.
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Her father had met Shin Sang-ok when travelling in Europe.
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She said that Shin had asked him
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to pass a message to the US government,
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that Shin was being held under duress,
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that he not defected to North Korea,
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that he wished to escape and come to the United States.
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And we have a bag, full of rattling microcassette tapes
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like we used to use in those days.
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Well, at that point, I nearly jumped off my chair
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and said, "Tapes? Of Shin talking with Kim Jong-il?"
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Now, at that time,
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no one had ever heard Kim Jong-il say anything.
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We didn't know what his voice sounded like.
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My wife is originally from Korea.
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I thought it would be useful if she could help me
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listen to a few of these tapes,
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to see if they sounded authentic.
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So, for some silly reason, we were sitting in bed,
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and we actually covered our heads with the sheets
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while we were listening covertly to these tapes.
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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(tires screech)
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(tram bell rings)
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On March 13th, Shin Sang-ok,
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a former South Korean movie producer,
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who has been working in North Korea,
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and Choi Eun-hee,
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approached the US government and sought assistance.
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We have given them assistance,
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but I can't give you anything further.
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Dean S. Robinson: In Vienna, we would expect
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that any defector that's going to walk in
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is either an Eastern-bloc military person,
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an Eastern-bloc intelligence officer or a diplomat.
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Film people from North Korea...
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that's interesting. That's...
367
01:25:40,202 --> 01:25:43,538
That's not something you see very often on the radar.
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01:25:43,538 --> 01:25:45,123
That's not what you would expect.
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They spent considerable time,
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sitting down talking to the intelligence authorities
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about every single aspect of that story.
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This story could sound funny,
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if we were the suspicious kind of people.
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When I met Shin and Choi for the first time,
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they were so uneasy. They were so ill at ease.
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Some people said Choi was really kidnapped.
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But Shin was not kidnapped, he walked into North Korea.
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That was a widespread story.
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Rissient: Everyone was convinced in South Korea
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that he had gone willingly.
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For whatever it means,
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every single person at that time thought that.
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(Kim Jong-il's indistinct voice on tape)
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On the tape, Kim Jong-il confessed
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that he had to kidnap Shin and Choi
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to North Korea
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to improve the North Korean film business.
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Kim Jong-il: (speaking Korean on tape)
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The truth about the kidnap, I think,
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01:27:50,415 --> 01:27:54,836
unless there really is a solid source in North Korea,
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a trustable source...
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I think we shall never know.
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Anyway, they were brought to the United States.
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The United States government accepted their asylum
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in the United States.
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(laughs and cries)
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(chuckles)
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(indistinct chatter)
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(cries)
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(sighs)
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(indistinct chatter)
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01:33:08,148 --> 01:33:11,318
(crowd sobbing)
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01:34:10,085 --> 01:34:11,337
(explosion)
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