A-List Movie Star KIDNAPPED By North Korea- then Forced To Make Movies For Kim Jung Il

Bada bing badao the Mansion was heavily guarded first there’s a layer of thick pine trees making it feel incredibly secluded incredibly private just tucked away then there’s a layer of concrete Gates walls Barbed wired fences and then armed guards surrounding the entire perimeter of this Mansion she’s given a

Tour of this massive estate her first night there these are the bedrooms but you’ll be staying here alone minus the guards so it’s your pick which room you’d like now this is the library and the theater there’s a tacky chandelier hanging from every single ceiling it

Felt like a mini Las Vegas in here over-the-top displays of wealth in every single room Uni’s very first night in that Mansion she was guided to a dining hall where the entire dining table enough to fit 16 people was filled with Delicacies and expensive foods from all

Over the world fried shrimp raw fish beef ribs Lobster all just for her enough food to feed a 100 people but nobody’s joining her for dinner she would be alone innie couldn’t stomach any of it she took a few sips of soup ran into her bedroom slammed the door

Shut she wanted to lock it but none of the doors in this house lock she tried another door it leads to a closet that’s jam-packed with clothes clothing that was perfectly tailored to fit un’s body it wasn’t just unie wears a medium and all the clothes are medium it was very

Much bespoke tailor to fit her exact measurements how this is her first time here Lennie cried herself to sleep that first night the next morning there were gifts waiting for her downstairs every cosmetic that she ever liked every skincare product she used back home makeup products the same brand the same

Item the same shade all there beautifully packaged up every single day uni was in that house a new expensive gift would come gowns fur coats Lacy hand Stitch laundry J all custom tailored to fit her and only her bespoke dresses Cosmetics flowers dinner was always another giant spread of food that

She can’t stomach and enough for 20 people but it’s just her it is miserable she was one of the most famous actresses in South Korea and now she had been kidnapped and held captive in a mansion with no way to escape she had guards watching her every single move attendees

Tending to her every single need whatever she needed anything at all was at her disposal at her request the only condition is she can’t leave she was trapped in captivity for about 5 days when her helper burst in through the door you’ve been invited to a dinner

Party you’ve been invited come on we must hurry and get ready she was dressed in a bespoke gown perfectly tailored to her driven in a Mercedes it pulls up in front of another massive opulent building the door swings open she gets out and St standing in front of her is Kim

Chong the soon Tobe supreme leader of North Korea welcome Madame Choy have you been able to get some rest she stood there shocked wasn’t he supposed to be dead or barely alive that’s what South Korean news have been reporting but he’s here standing in front of her healthy as

A horse beaming he’s so proud of kidnapping her why would king jangir want to kidnap her why would the of the supreme leader of North Korea Arab parent kidnap a South Korean film actress when all foreign films are banned in North Korea the great leader would tell her because I want you to

Star in North Korean movies and he smiled but it’s not a request it was a threat uni top South Korean actress would have to act like her life dependent on it for Kim Jong e the soon Tobe leader of North Korea We would like to thank today’s sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mango to support Korea future whose mission is to document and analyze human rights violations and international crimes committed in North Korea in order to help support accountability and proceedings under naal and international

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Causes this is actually a revisit to an episode I did a few years back back when we were still doing just Audio Only and no visuals on this podcast but when the episode of Kim Jong Nam being killed by two girls who thought it was a YouTube

Prank yeah when that went up a lot of you guys have been requesting this case through our website and we didn’t want to just upload the audio with no video since I know a lot of you guys like the video format so I went in I took a

Second look at this case I tried to approach it from a completely different perspective I did my best to make it feel like a completely different episode so even if you have listened to the previous Audio Only episodes I am hoping and I think that this will still feel

Like an entirely new case we also did a lot of additional research the novel aim dang production which that was my second time reading it Paul fiser is absolutely incredible I mean he is such a wellth thought out author like everything that he he put his heart and soul into that

Book and it probably has a spot on my list of top 10 books that I’ve ever read I believe he just recently released a new book a year or two back so I’m going to link both in the description give it a read he’s a fantastic author and there

Is so much more detail in his work but as always with any episode if there is anything Lost in Translation miscommunicated or additional information that you know please let me know down in the comments now with that being said let’s get into it the headlines in South Korea read uni famous

South Korean movie star gone missing and her famous film director husband is suspect number one did he do it he would say no that’s nonsense well did he kill her did he hide her somewhere does he know a secret does she know a secret about him that could take his whole

Career down was it for the money or was it because he was was done with her did he think his life is his own little movie and he can just kidnap his ex-wife director Shin thought it was all ridiculous and anybody who believed such a ridiculous thing was just not very

Bright but every time he tried to tell people reporters press media friends family nobody believed him the police they raided his house they went through all of his personal belongings things are not looking in his favor reporters police they’re hounding him with questions all of which he keeps denying

I didn’t do anything but is it not true that you cheated on your wife the woman who helped you achieve your dreams unie was already a movie star when they got married he was a relatively unknown director she’s the one that made his career they got married she starred in

Every single film of his pushing him into just complete stardom Fame and money basically shoving wads of bills into his pockets and then he turned around found a younger actress to star in his movie he cheated on his older wife with the younger actress he had two

Kids with his mistress when he was the one that knew that one of un’s biggest insecurities was the fact that she was unable to Bear him biological children he turned around had an affair with a younger woman had two biological kids was it also not true that director

Shin didn’t even tell her about this affair he waited until she woke up one morning and read it on the papers she was completely blindsided and humiliated so publicly is it not true that unie hit rock bottom because she felt her husband went and found the two things that uni

Could no longer provide Youth and biological children is that not true director Shin would say but that has nothing to do with her disappearance and then to pour giant crystals of salt into the gaping open wound did director Shin not recreate a movie he first made with his wife uni as

The lead did he not redo it recreate it with the newer younger version of his mistress you’re saying that she went missing and these people are coming to the ex-husband or husband ex-husband and he’s like I had nothing to do with it but they’re like did you not cheat on

Her did you not have kids with your mistress did you not wait for her to find it on the news I mean it’s so brutal you sound like the prime suspect MH I mean what he did is absolutely horrendous but director Shin was innocent that’s what he keeps claiming

He has nothing to do with his ex-wife’s disappearance but not a single person would believe him after hearing all of that so now there’s only one way to to prove his innocence go find Uni and bring her home the largest prison camp in North Korea is larger than the city of Los

Angeles you can be thrown in prison in North Korea for just about anything one woman was thrown into prison because she was in charge of handing out food rations a higher up in the government structure wanted more food from her than was allowed in his rations surpassing

His rations breaking the law she told him no that’s breaking the law she was thrown in prison had she given him extra food she would probably be thrown in prison either way but in North Korea your actions are not just your own actions usually three generations of a

Family are thrown in prison for one person’s actions in prison you are condemned to hard labor and likely death in prison you’re being watched non-stop nobody’s to be trusted guards in North Korean prison camps are rewarded by how many Escape attempts they stop so they’ll lie to prisoners hey come here I

Can help you escape I know you were wrong Yul charged I know a cousin who knows your cousin I’m going to help you get out of here okay they’ll help you they’ll wait until the very last second until that prisoner is about to reach the gates and then boom they’ll shoot

Them down from the guard poost they’ll drag their dead body back to the prison to show their hups and get rewarded with extra food rations sometimes if an escape doesn’t get killed on their attempt but is still alive the guards will have all the other prisoners come outside and order them to walk

Walk on them non-stop break all their bones Crush their organs stomp on him either he dies or you all die once the Escape was trampled on completely crushed until he looked like a bag of ground meat just limp and jelly on the floor the guards

Would just leave him out for a few days as a reminder to everyone don’t ever try to escape because we are watching you other times guards will hang up prisoners who try to escape and order the rest of the group to Stone them alive they’ll have to to throw heavy

Stones at them the other prisoners stated the skin on the victim’s faces would be completely gone nothing would be left of their clothes but just some like bloody strings Force terminations are very common they will inject poison into the fetus or if they’re feeling lazy guards will just cut a woman open

Rip her baby out and strangle the child if they’re still alive sometimes they might even make you wait whether you feel like you’re getting away with it but they rip your life apart when it hurts more or for the sheer enjoyment of it but it has been reported that forc terminations occur

When prisoners were about 7 to 8 months pregnant basically about to give birth so it would be you would think in everybody’s best interest then if you are not pregnant upon arriving in prison and you do whatever it takes to not get pregnant once you are in that prison to

Not go through all of that but there’s a catch female prisoners are often ordered to wash clothes at night where the guards would take them to be R worded yeah so we can imagine that a lot of female prisoners die during the process but most people in North Korean

Prisons die from starvation the starvation there gets so bad that some prisoners are given Less Than 3 ounces of corn for an entire day unseasoned usually rotten stale corn you know when you order a Chipotle burrito bowl and you ask for corn salsa on your bowl it’s

About a scoop of corn that is how much they would get for their entire day to consume while they’re doing hard labor it’s so little that prisoners start obsessing over consuming anything they can get their hands and the only thing that they have are rats and cockroaches

If they’re lucky the guards take pity on them and shove a small cup of pig feed into the cell it’s like the crushed sand that they feed pigs that gets pushed into their cell and they will eat it up a former Defector said from the moment you put down your spoon you’re hungry

It’s all grass no nutrition you get hungry you don’t even feel the food in your stomach all the nutrition in your body is gone so you end up looking like a skeleton just right before dying another former prisoner said said it’s in my opinion that it’s preferable to be

Beaten in prison you know cuz it’s possible to grit your teeth and withstand a physical beating but to continuously be starved is worse during the winters it gets as cold as -10° in North Korea but you never get anything other than the thin shirt that you’re wearing so with the severe lack of

Nutrition the harsh conditions prisoners barely have the energy to live but they need to work they need to work 16 hours a day depending on the prison there are different types of force labor so the more physically taxing and Dangerous Ones include mining logging construction farming but also you could be sent to

Make fake eyelashes for like 20 hours in a single day I mean it sounds easier than mining right but they have quotas they have to meet those quotas and if you don’t you’re going to get punished side note that’s been a whole thing recently there are a ton of

Products out there that are labeled made in China but they could actually be made in North Korean prison camps fake lashes and wigs being two big examples of exports that you will see get exported into the United States to be sold to Consumers that violate us sanctions

Because they’re made in North Korea and North Korea profits off of them but we don’t know right is that okay one Survivor said there were about 160 women in her side of the prison camp they would get lined up every night after 16 20 hours of working and the ones that

The guards felt like didn’t perform well enough they would get whipped and their heads would be smashed into the concrete walls as punishment they would just walk up behind you and start smashing heads into the walls then they get divided into groups of 50 they’re forced to sleep in the same cell

I mean at most they have enough room to kind of sit with their knees pulled up to their chest and that’s how they’re supposed to sleep One Survivor said you go to sleep and the next morning the person next to you is cold because they’re dead the older woman die right

Away I saw a fellow prisoner desperate from Hunger bit off half of the ear of a woman who died and put it in her pocket to eat it later it’s reported prisoners will be asked to hold the top bars of their cell door and the guards would

Just come and and use that person as a literal punching bag another person reports being thrown into a pottery Kil until she was knocked out from the heat it’s like a giant oven then once she was passed out they brought her out and waited until she was conscious and they

Punched out all her teeth she had toothpicks shoved under her nail beds she was forced to drink water copious amounts of water until she vomited up everything another woman stated that she woke up and there were two full- grown men guards standing on top of her

Stomach she was unable to stand up for 2 weeks after that two sisters were caught trying to escape they were brought back to the camp and in front of all the other prisoners to teach them a lesson they were forced to lift a heavy log up

In the air until they gave up and it came down on them the other prisoners were instructed to then go in and stomp on them and break all their bones finally they were taped up to a wall to be publicly starved to death it’s like when you watch a flower withering every

Time another prisoner would walk past they would see more and more bone just prot intruding from the two girls until they were dead on the walls some reports even suggest that doctors come to prisons to practice surgeries and instead of wasting money and resources they will just pluck a

Random prisoner who doesn’t need a surgery and practice opening them up and operating on their internal organs without anesthesia we have no idea how much of these are true and I hope most of them are not but these are the stories of a lot of defectors so I just don’t really

See why they would lie one prisoner said you quickly learn to tell the difference between the Cry of a man screaming out in pain or from fear or from Madness but one thing that we can say is a bit more confirmed are the heavy usage of stress positions in prison stress positions

Don’t sound as bad compared to all the other methods of torture that we just discussed but it’s it’s bad the CIA employed stress positions on its notorious torture programs against terrorists stress positions are when you place a detainee in a very very uncomfortable unnatural position for lengthy periods of time some people say

It’s more painful than breaking a bone it causes long-term injuries without any scars it’s mentally exhausting it’s physically excruciating it’s humiliating it causes muscle fatigue it leads to muscle spasms your whole body is shaking in pain and it stings in a very unique way this is said to be used to break

Down the mental barriers of prisoners there’s something called the clock torture prisoners will be forced to stand on a table and they are read out loud at time on a clock they have to recreate it with their bodies and then they have to hold that position until

Another time is called they do this for hours like 20 hours a day most of them end up collapsing in exhaustion and pain and it could last for as long as the guards want what do you mean by posing out the clock so if it’s like 10 you

Have to use your body to make it look like 10 but you can’t have your legs planted so you know how the easiest way would be like oh this is three this is you know but you can’t do that h they get severely beaten if they don’t have

The right read now a few of the more intense stress positions include scale airplane and motorcycle the scale position prisoners are made to stand on their tippy toes knees bent squatting then they have to extend their arms fully out in front of them and these giant cinder blocks attached by ropes

Get clung onto their wrists they have to keep the scales balanced they cannot move within seconds their entire body starts to tremble uncontrollably I mean no amount of willpower or fear is going to make this go away but the guards don’t care if you move if you make the

Scales unbalanced you will be beaten and starved and likely thrown into solitary confinement the airplane pose consists of a prisoner standing on the tippy toes of one leg the other leg is bent so they’re just balancing on one foot on their toes their arms have to be

Stretched out to their sides like an airplane the motorcycle pose the prisoner is forced on both toes squatting very lowly down like they’re sitting on on an invisible motorcycle they have to extend both arms in front of them like they’re holding on to the motorcycle handlebars they have to

Maintain that position for however long the guards want sometimes it can be 20 hours a day what makes this more sick is that a lot of the citizens of North Korea have never even seen an airplane or a motorcycle wow one North Korean official who worked in the Kim residence as a

Maid if you will had never even seen a banana before all of this so they’ve never seen motorcycles or there’s the pigeon pose there are railings on the walls of the prison about 2 feet tall your arms get handcuffed behind your back they get attached to that 2et tall wall railing

It’s such an awkward position that you can’t fully stand up but you also cannot squat or sit down fully you’re half squatting you can’t even like be doing a kimchi squat it’s very uncomfortable you’re just kind of crunched up in a semi ball no food no water for 3 days

And they say something about that position makes you empty your insides from both sides you end up urinating and defecating on yourself as well as vomiting up everything and you cannot sleep for 3 days because your body cannot rest one prisoner said if you’re hung like that you urinate you defecate

You throw up you’re totally dehydrated it was the most painful of all tortures it was so painful I thought it was better to die these rules still apply when the prisoners go to sleep one former prisoner turned Defector said we were not supposed to move when we sleep

We have to sit crisscross applesauce and we have to look down and our back straight head hanging down that’s how we’re allowed to sleep no one’s allowed to move so all you hear is the sound of people breathing more often than not detainees are forced to dig their own

Graves because the chances of surviving and getting out are slim to none in prison number six of North Korea One inmate got a very very very lucky call he was allowed to use a shower that day so for the past 2 years he had been stuck in this prison barely allowed out

To shower brushing his teeth with salt but today he was going to get longer than the 5 minutes that he was normally allowed so his trustee which is like an inmate who works as a teacher’s assistant it’s an inmate that the guards trust the trustee is watching over him

Making sure that he doesn’t do anything wrong and for some reason I guess the trustee really liked him he let him shower a bit longer so while the inmate is in there scrubbing as quickly as possible feeling very vulnerable naked in the shower the trustee leans up

Against the wall glances around and says I know who you are the man in the shower froze you’re that South Korean film director director Shin you’re married to that actress l no how was this possible all foreign movies were banned in North Korea nobody in the prison not even the

Guards knew who he was did you just say that you knew my wife un yeah I did Shin’s head starts ringing do you know where she is is is she here she’s just here but now she’s gone before Shen could ask more questions time was up they had to go

Back to their cells director Shen had been trapped in North Korea for years looking for his ex-wife some Reports say they were still married but wife actress he and now a suspicious guy in prison is telling him he knows who he is he knows who his wife is and that his wife had

Been in this very exact prison Shin had a million questions that he wanted to ask during the next shower but here’s the weird thing how did he know what director Shin looked like even if South Korean movies were smuggled into North Korea director Shin was behind the

Camera how did he recognize him by his face was this another trap was this another setup some sort of test Shin would have a lot of time to ponder if the man could be trusted he would spend another 2 years in the North Korean Detention Center 16 hours a day each day

In a stress position 16 hours a day in a stress position how many how long time for 2 and 1/2 years every single day every single day wow there is a real life Hunger Games and it’s called the mass games it’s hosted in North Korea it takes place typically once a year every

Year in the world’s largest Arena where tens of thousands of children scream in happiness or fear for their lives and technically you can go watch well maybe not you American citizen aren’t allowed to visit North Korea but they do accept tourists from other countries the mass games is actually a tourist event all

You have to do is purchase a ticket some International sponsors of these games are going to pay top dollar to see the games up close in personal technically the games aren’t really games it’s just a gymnastics performance there are no real games being played it’s not football it’s not basketball it’s a

Performance where tens of thousands if not close to a 100,000 people show up and they show their strength as a group they will run out into what looks like a giant football field or a soccer field it’s actually close to 40 American football fields all in an enclosed

Indoor Stadium it’s the largest arena in the world and these 100,000 people will form shapes with their bodies they’re coordinated they’re in sync they’re dancing along to music they’re singing but they’re also forming words and then they’re forming mosaics they’re forming a whole play with their

Bodies so instead of having trees as on the side you’ll have like 10,000 people dressed up as a tree and they’re moving and they’re swaying because trees are moving with the wind and then the new story calls for the trees to be moved to a different side it’s crazy the amount

Of moving parts that you see it feels like a wave it feels like you’ve programmed them with a computer and they’re they’re computer chips but they’re human not a single one of them ever steps out of line and not a single one of them goes 2 seconds faster than

The rest it’s like they share one Collective brain and then on one side of the leechers there are more performers they’re in charge of the card screen they’re holding a stack of colored cards they’re like these giant poster cards probably the size of a poster board so

Think double your torso and on beat they can make those poster cards depict the Kim Dynasty a person a place whatever Mosaic they want and it’s not cartoonish it’s almost like a real screen it’s almost like you’re watching a human Jumbotron it looks like an LED screen

But it’s managed by individual humans so every like on screen like every little block pixel is a human that’s manually controlling it and they have to move these poster cards very quickly and most of them are kids children not a single colored card is ever wrongfully depicted

Not a single person chooses the wrong colored card at the wrong time or a second late again it’s like they share one Collective brain most of the card flippers are children and Witnesses estimate that the crowd of children performing in the mass games is close to 30,000 in total the

Group of perform forers makes up about 100,000 civilians and it’s all about a single heart Society it’s like an Olympics opening ceremony but even crazier it’s lengthy there’s multiple stories in each Act there’s use of props uniforms spelling of words using thousands of bodies thousands of kids

Are in each performance I mean some of them are chosen as young as 5 years old and they train every single day of their lives until they are deemed ready then they can finally take part in a mass game and every Year from then on they will perform and they will practice for

The next one and perform until they die the kids are forced to practice over 8 hours a day close to 13 hours a day flipping colored cards that are larger than their upper bodies they have to practice outside when the winters are in the negative degrees and no Pages have

Words instructions pictures nothing they can never get it crinkled that book of colored poster cards is their Bible they cannot ruin it one nzen who went said it’s like cir toay but on steroids so it’s not a real game in the sense that you win anything but it’s still a game

Because if you don’t perform if you misstep if you don’t scream loud enough you could lose everything one tourist described it as deafening each child a sea of tens of thousands of kids sitting one foot apart trying to scream louder than all the other kids in the end if

The kids throats aren’t gone if they haven’t screamed enough they are simply not honoring their regime enough the consequences can involve concentration camps condemning three future generations of yours to of lower class status and in cases where a child messes up astronomically like not flipping the right colored card they could be

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Were bulging out until they were on the brink of fainting until urine was trickling down their legs because they have to stand like that all day long and the smell would spread throughout the stadium it was a real life Hunger Games and director Shin felt completely alone but he wasn’t in the

Crowd was his ex wife un trapped just like him waiting for an escape they would both be kidnapped and held by North Korea for years before they’re reunited by Kim jonger do you know who the largest buyer of Hennessy the liquor brand was at one point North Korea Kim Tong of North

Korea it is estimated that calculated with inflation he spent close to $4 million a year on just the Hennessy brand alone not liquor in total just Hennessy liquor it’s like a CAC liquor when he wanted something lighter he liked $155,000 bottles of champagne he owned yeah he had a very lavish

Lifestyle he owns multiple cars or he did own multiple cars armored Mercedes that were bulletproof Cadillacs rolls-royces speedboats Yachts cruise ships collection of racing cars a private helicopter he didn’t own a plane because he always hated flying longterm but his favorite method of travel was Private bulletproof train he had a

Private bulletproof train to where like he could just travel around North Korea in his private yeah he had 24 something Resorts and Villas all around North Korea that was just made for him it’s not a resort in the sense that other people can visit but Resort in the sense

That they are that massive they look like a five-star Resort it’s estimated that he spent at least $2.5 billion Building Homes across the country for himself every single piece of furniture in his homes were imported from Switzerland or France each Clock Was Made handmade in Switzerland and all his

Residences had to be set at 71 degrees whether he was there or not even though the electricity is rationed in North Korea he needs it to be 7 71° in every room before he arrives all the attendants have maybe a minute to spray his favorite scent of perfume everywhere

If he walks into a room and he doesn’t smell it I’m imagining blood would be shed he had full-blown casinos in his Estates ski slopes bowling alleys roller skating rinks he also had one residence where he just keeps deer as pets you’re talking about Kim Jang yes so Kim Jang

IL is the dad of Kim Jong Un also the father of Kim Jong Nam same dad yeah different mothers we’re going to get into it though yeah but it’s rumored that another building was constructed three stories below water level with thick glass like the Atlantis hotel or

You know Hotel yes just a panoramic view of underwater life one resident had a 165 ft long underground swimming pool in the residence which most residential pools are about 20 ft long this was 165 ft underground and most things that is underground for the Kim Dynasty are bomb

Prooof like nuclear weapon proof is what they say Kim had water slides for his above ground pools that make the place look like a fullscale amusement park and that’s just one of his pools and he just had a thing for water many of his residences would sit on artificial

Man-made Lakes Kim said water made him feel calm he even had a party building that he called the fish house because it had a 25 foot long floor to ceiling aquarium a large ocean fish aquarium in the second floor ballroom and every party the people in attendance would

Change they were always the one that Kim would favorite and he would call them drink with them eat with them and they could be switched in and out but one constant was the pleasure Squad the pleasure Squad was in attendance at every single party the pleasure Squad

Consisted of the most beautiful woman in North Korea handpicked by Kim jongo and then divided into three separate groups the Entertainment Group they would come to the fish house they would sing and dance at the parties then you had the happiness group they would go around the

Party to each of the guests or whoever Kim ordered them to and they would massage them anywhere and everywhere they wanted then you had the satisfaction group they provided seual services to anybody Kim wanted interestingly enough Kim never touched any of the girls at any of his parties

All three groups all three groups H but he would force them to sing dance massage and do other things at the parties sometimes it’s alleged that group orgies take place at these Fish House parties and they loved playing bizarre games like with the pleasure Squad allegedly there was this one game

That they would play and if one of the pleasure Squad girls lost they would have their private parts hair shaved in front of everyone yeah there’s a few strict criteria when it comes to who qualifies to be a pleasure Squad girl you cannot be taller than 5’4 because that’s how

Tall Kim Jung is he doesn’t want them to be taller than him you have to be free of scars and blemishes you have need a soft feminine voice and being untouched is imperative and you have to be between the ages of 13 and 15 to start side note untouched girls are specifically chosen

Because and take this with a grain of salt but it’s believed that the Kims believed the girls life force or Chi would be absorbed if you were the first one to be intimate with them so you take their life spirit away from them so the girls are allegedly subjected to

Horrendous medical tests to ensure that they are untouched and then once they’re touched they are trained to basically become sexual robot slaves like they are not allowed to have their own individual thoughts feelings like they are just to be ordered around they are trained for 6 months learning how to service

Higher-ups in North Korea they take intense classes for manners Behavior massage intimacy singing dancing once they pass training the girls are forced to entertain and sleep with whoever the leading family wants it was recently a scandal with Kim jong’s Son the current leader where he spent allegedly over $2

Million in foreign lingerie for the pleasure Squad because the pleasure Squad seems to be a generational thing like they’ll create their own pleasure squads how did that news even come out yeah I think cuz they imported it from Europe and maybe h no there’s no official number on how many girls are in

The pleasure Squad but it can be estimated to be about 2,000 they never have a say in anything that happens to them and these girls are retired at around 20 years old because that’s just like way too old to be attractive now and their reward their payment for being

Essentially kidnapped in trafficked is to be able to marry a military officer but the active members will be at each of the Fish House Parties usually wearing revealing clothing dancing singing entertaining pouring glasses flirting whatever Kim wants he gets and these parties I mean really they are

Like the capital parties at The Hunger Games do you remember when the capital would host parties and all the elite would take these pills that make them throw up everything they just consumed so that they can go back in and eat more more that’s what these parties felt like

At the fish house every single surface all the tables were filled with lobsters steak pastries bare feet imported from Russia which is a whole thing bear paws are usually illegal but they go for about $1,000 a paw you cook it in soup and the whole meaning is if you eat a

Bear paw you will get the power of a bear and usually the paws are hacked off in front of the eater the bear is still alive they come in Chained and they hack off the Paw then the bear is now driven out and they get tortured by being

Beaten with steel sticks until they die the idea is that bears are in a state of adrenaline when they die because they’re being beaten up and the meat will become more tender Additionally the table is always filled with shark fin soup which is also another controversial dish a lot of

Fishers will go out into the ocean catch a shark cut off their fins and throw them back into the water where they’re just bleeding out and slowly drowning because they can’t swim there is no nutritional value in a shark fin nor is there any taste but some people believe

It to be a magical essence of life the tables are filled with $800 to $1,500 bottles of Hennessy there’s large glass bottles with a yellowish liquor inside and sitting floating around is a venomous snake It’s called snake venom liquor a delicacy where venomous snakes are infused with liquor in the hopes

That the Venom’s Essence will be in each sip people describe the aftertaste of snake venom liquor as being a fishy chicken sometimes the snakes are dunked into the liquor alive but instead of dying they go into hibernation and they come alive when the bottle is opened but it is considered quite a

Delicacy but there are no such things as free lunches if Kim asks you a question at one of these Fish House Parties addresses you during the meal you have to jump up stand at attention even with a mouthful of shark fin soup and respond yes sir you are to stand in that

Position until Kim feels like you know what it’s time for you to be seated again Kim would be at the center of all of this directing the party and whatever he said regardless of if it was joking around or completely drunk and he’s just talking out of his mouth there would be

An assistant standing right behind him writing down every single thing he says on pen and paper and whatever he says at that party would become an official order and law the next day Kim would fire or promote people for random things you know how to eat shark

Finin soup well you must be a spoiled little brat demoted sent into prison just completely random uncalled for unpredictable so one minute they’re a guest yeah having a party look like they’re having the time of their life next minute they’re in prison exactly so they’re not really a guest here they’re

All like actors no one’s having fun I see sometimes in the middle of dinner he would scream Army everyone would stop mid chew eyes go Wide Food hanging out of their mouth they would reach under their seats rush to put on an army uniform that’s taped underneath their

Dinner seat and they would start jogging around in a circle around the table until Kim tells them stop enough then they would sit back down and soon enough he would scream Navy and they would reach down and grab the Navy uniform put it on and then just run

Around in circles around the table until he decided H that’s enough stimulation he liked to watch people squirm he would tell the female dancers to strip completely naked and dance around seductively the men then were instructed to dance with them but if you touch a woman I’ll consider you a thief the men

Would be terrified for their lives allegedly there was one time where a man that had frequented Kim’s parties he went home and he told his wife a few things that he saw at these gatherings and the wife being a good citizen of North Korea felt like these parties were

Immoral and it goes against what the supreme leader would want so this is when Kim jangir was not the supreme leader this is when his daddy was Kim s he’s the Aira parent he’s going to take over soon but he’s not the leader he’s not the head dog in charge yet so she

Writes the supreme leader a very long letter kind polite about what his son was up to during his night shifts the letter did not go to Daddy Kim it went straight to Kim dang who held another party but this time husband and wife were both invited in front of

All the guests Kim stated that this woman was a traitor and he brought out a rifle her husband looked at her and then looked at Kim Jung and said can I do the honors sir and he shot his wife to death at the party and then the party went on

Allegedly there were several nights where giant 6ot long diameter balls like giant balls would be hung up in the ceiling filled with presents Kim would shoot at the ball with a rifle making it explode presents all over the floor and all the guests would fight each other

For the best presents and most of the presents were just like food Kim thought it was amusing he liked it meanwhile the country of North Korea is said to look like a war zone no signs of people are life in most areas everywhere looks like a ghost town the only thing that is

Around are pictures of Kim the dad hung up on every wall of every building there’s no street light so at night the entire country is Pitch Black everybody gets sorted into a cast system called the hungan system and every single person is assigned a rank but it’s not

Even just based on you it’s based on your past Generations if your parents have tainted blood and you know what they consider tainted blood if your parents before the Korean War had owned a little store a mom and pop store you have tainted blood because that’s a

Sign of capitalism and you are filth when there’s food shortages in North Korea the food rations are concentrated to the top of the hung bun classes the lowest hung buns will be the first to starve to death and the chances of starving to death are pretty high the

Food rations per person in North Korea are sometimes as low as 11 ounces a day for adults this is someone who is not a prisoner prisoners can get as low as 5 ounces a day just to give you some context we probably eat anywhere between

4 48 to 64 ounces of food on average to maintain our weight not gain weight 11 ounces of non-nutritious food is starvation people were so hungry they laid traps for Birds rats mice the entire country’s frog population is extinct because people resorted to eating all the frogs people dug through

Calor to find undigested corn to eat there were reports of parents being thrown in prison for eating their children and cannibalism stories starting to spread during a 4year span it’s estimated 3 million people in North Korea died from starvation and yet every single citizen was gifted a portrait of the great

Leaders and a white polishing cloth that they could be used only for wiping these portraits every day they’re instructed to praise the portraits and if there ever is a fire if there’s ever an earthquake you could lose your whole family member you could lose your whole house all your worldly belongings but

You better not lose that portrait because every morning you have to wake up and thank the great leader for the food even though there is no food there is no publicly known net worth for the Kim family of North Korea but we can assume based on their position and their spending that they

Are one of the richest families in the world some people estimate in the hundreds of billions will never get an accurate figure the Kim Dynasty consisted of kimy s who was the very first leader of North Korea the citizens in North Korea called him the great son

Of life he had a few children and after a very dangerous game of succession Kim Jang takes over as the supreme leader he’s the one that this whole story is going to be about so we’re just going to call him Kim but he’s not actually the current leader of North Korea the

Current leader is his son Kim Jong-un who took over in 2011 and then allegedly he had his half brother assassinated but that was covered in another video and we’ll link it below at this point in the succession games Kim the founder of North Korea is still in charge he’s got

A bunch of kids and Kim Jong is probably his era parent but he hasn’t solidified it he hasn’t announced it to the world or even to his own people so now that we’re somewhat acquainted with the Kim lineage let’s talk about their business models because I’m not saying this but

Many many people have said that the Kim Dynasty runs their finances like a crime syndicate they run their finances more like a mafia family a lot of the Kim’s fortunes come from gold mines exports of goods factories that are set up where civilians are forced to work for

Basically no money and their products are exported to make a profit for the Kims allegedly North Korea is a huge huge producer of counterfeit items including counterfeit cigarettes medicine including fake Viagra counterfeit bills yeah counterfeit bills is a whole thing at one point they were one of the larger counterfitters of the

US $100 bill and the $100 bills by the way they are called supernotes by the CIA cuz they were pretty good some even speculate that the Kims were involved in the drug trade primarily opium cocaine meth so Kim Jong the son of the supreme leader at the time was in charge of

Running a lot of these operations and allegedly while he holds this very powerful spot he’s just not satisfied because there’s really only one role that Kim dang wants which is becoming the supreme leader of North Korea and Legend has it he’s ready for it at just

3 weeks old Legend has it Kim jangir was walking around the army bases the average child starts walking out around 10 months or 44 weeks but he’s 3 weeks old at just 8 weeks old Kim was talking the average child starts talking around 15 months or 65 weeks but he’s just 8

Weeks old and at just 3 years old it stated Legend has it Kim jangir walked into a classroom that had maps of the evil Japan on the wall he dipped his finger into the ink jar he walked up to the map smeared a certain part of Japan

With black ink and the second his finger landed on that map violent typhoons and Hurricanes started pounding down in Japan in that exact region the average child does not ever do that but he did that at 3 years old and at 10 years old he was fighting on the front lines of

The gorilla battles he had a gun in his hand and just to add another one to the list allegedly during his very first game of golf he did 11 holes in one to give you context Tiger Woods has only had 20 holes in ones during his entire

Career Kim had 11 during his first ever game yeah now these stories are taught every day to the North Korean citizens from the time a North Korean child is old enough to walk which is usually not 3 weeks they are taught these stories it’s like being taught the ABCs maybe

More important in North Korea even though it’s all a lie but didn’t matter because a good story is a good story that’s how Kim Dong felt but in reality they’re just stories it’s been said by others that kimjang is really not that special had he been born to any other

Family one might even call him average ironically Kim is said to hate Authority and discipline as a kid he was predisposed to having these temper tantrums and he would throw these huge parties he just loved a NeverEnding good time that’s it he didn’t care about anything else he didn’t care about

Studying he just spent his entire day in his movie theater all he did was watch movies Kim jangir was a cinema holic he was obsessed with movies now side note non-north korean-made films are completely banned in North Korea if you get caught watching a film from a

Different country you will get sent to a harsh labor camp for at least 5 years your parents will probably have to go for at least a year just for birthing you birthing someone who would dare break a law but not for Kim one of his first projects was actually a smuggling

Ring a network to smuggle foreign movies like from the United States from Europe from South Korea from Japan into North Korea he called it rescue operation number 100 with 250 employees he had most foreign movies translated and dubbed into Korean there were translators subtitle writers dubbing voice actors archists administrators he

Had one of the largest private collections of movies probably in the entire world but is that behind Daddy’s back or behind Daddy’s back but what about the 250 employees working in the department weren’t they breaking the law by watching so many foreign films no each film was divided into like 500

Different parts there was just audio then just visual then both and each employee only got Clips to translate of each movie so they had no idea what was going on ever like it was just spliced together he became the head of the propaganda Film Studio which sounds like

A position that your Dad gives you when they’re like I don’t know what else to give you so just like go do this right you get a fancy title there you go my son but it’s actually a very important rule at one point North and South Korea were fighting about everything like they

Were trying to be the better country in regards to every industry including film making South Korea was getting ahead with some films that were gaining International recognition I mean it wasn’t like parasite level but it was still better than what North Korea was doing at the time Kim’s dad thought Kim

Had a special eye for film and by special eye I mean he just liked watching them like the rest of us I mean I can’t find any reports that he was particularly talented at film or the conception of storylines but there is one story that’s told over and over and

Over to the North Korean people when Kim was 7even he was watching a North Korean made film with his dad and at the end everyone got up and they’re clapping and everyone’s cheering and he walked up to the producer 7 years old and he said the film showed winter scenes of the falling

Snow there is snow everywhere in the scene but not on the heads and shoulders of the actors and the snow is so clearly made of cotton wool we should try salt next time also the trick shots are not good I have better ways they can be filmed and that is the story filmmaker

Prodige the next Mastermind of Cinema in the world so Kim takes over he starts making movies to spread propaganda he created a 10 million ft studio in North Korea which is bigger than all the Hollywood studio lots and working in his movie making Department was probably the

Best job that you could ever get he created a department store for film workers where they could buy clothes that are usually not available in their rations they could even eat chocolate sometimes a big part of why Kim became the next leader of North Korea has a lot

To do with these movies they’re not great they’re not even good but they all praised his dad they all praised the current leader I see they got the public riled up and excited about the future of the country they were a great tool for propaganda in the beginning because think about it this

Way books and lectures they take time to absorb it’s harder more expensive to disperse one book a person no that’s expensive one book per classroom but how do you make sure each kid gets it and how fast can they get through the entire book and how do you know they’re

Absorbing the right message movies are the easiest way the population will enjoy it they’ll be so thankful for Quality entertainment and the entire movie would just be an ad for Kimi song The Kim Dynasty and Devotion to North Korea not every town had a movie theater so they would have these traveling

Screens with projectors to go town from town and to make sure everybody got the message at the end after each movie there would be a criticism session where nobody who wants to stay alive would be criticizing anything but rather everyone responds to questions being asked about

The message of the movie and this was all Kim’s idea and it worked every movie showed his father as the greatest being that ever existed loyalty to Kimi song and the nation was the greatest virtue that one could have Kimi song was quite pleased with his son he took his films

Into great consideration when thinking about who’s going to be the next heir to the nation but like any great film director Kim dang would have his first movie Affair just like director Shin he fell in love with the lead actress and goes down it’s estimated that out of the 26 million

People in North Korea only 30,000 people own cars and they’re all government issued so you get it as a gift from the government now there are barely any cars on the road at any given time so ham let’s call her H so H is confused when she hears a car honking outside her

Bedroom window in the village of North Korea like who the hell could possibly be outside right now she pokes her head out and there is the Supreme Leader’s son air apparent Kim Dong standing next to his armored Mercedes get in definitely in order she grabs a jacket runs into the back seat the

Second most powerful man in all of North Korea is now staring at her no one can ever know about this including my father the supreme leader you got it I’m going to take you to the hospital your sister is about to give birth to my very first child

What actress Sim not to be confused with her sister ham was pregnant with Kim’s very first child Kim dropped the actress’s sister off at the hospital so she wouldn’t be alone to give birth there was no way he could get in there his dad had to never know about this

This could ruin his chance at succession because this is not an optimal marriage by the way the actress is married and already has kids there there’s no way the supreme leader of North Korea can be in a scandalous marriage so his dad wouldn’t choose him to be the the next

Leader no one can know so he waits outside in the car in the dark and he stares up at the hospital window and he’s anxious he and the actress had set up a code if she flicks the light a certain number of times that means the

Baby is a boy a different number of times that means the baby is a girl he waits and he counts the flickering of the lights it’s a boy a baby boy he would be named Kim Jong Nam oh my goodness how could anybody have guessed in the next round of succession in North

Korea Kim Jang n would be killed by two girls who thought they were filming a YouTube prank Kim staring at the comedian the comedian staring at Kim Jong n the kid the kid staring back and forth from the comedian to his father back to the comedian and then bursting into tears

He’s a fake dad he’s a fake Kim looked upset take him away the comedian was dragged out by the guards Kim Jong Nam Kim’s first son had a favorite South Korean comedian and he requested his dad to see him live than on TV but that wasn’t really feasible so Kim ordered

His men to find someone Across the Nation that resembled this comedian give them plastic surgery against his will and then train him to talk like the comedian and have the same mannerisms and then give a live performance either way that comedian was going to die because no one knows about

Kim Jong n’s existence at this point he gets brought in and Kim Jong namam knows it’s not the real one he catches on and that’s when Kim thought to himself that was annoying I should have just kidnapped the real one it’s not like this was new to them North

Korea actually went through a kidnapping phase a kidnapping era if you will all around the world civilians who had no affiliations with their own government even they’re not high ranking they’re not high security clearance positions just random normal civilians would go missing in each case authorities assumed

That they ran away or some sort of sedy individual was out lurking kidnapping and killing them or some other bad thing had happened to them but no it was Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il loved a good kidnapping storyline he learned it from all the James Bond movies he watched I’m

Not even kidding you there are reports that Kim jonger believ James Bond movies were docu dramas yeah so all these secret spies holding people hostage kidnapping people assassinations money Heist he thought they were all dramatized Recreations of things that happened in the west and he

Felt left out so he’s like I’m going to do the same thing I’m going to kidnap people later he said well I didn’t kidnap people my men did my men were overzealous in their patriotism so they kidnapped people from Japan South Korea London Copenhagen Oslo Hong Kong maau

Beirut it’s reported that South Korea had the most abductions from North Korea China and Japan are likely second and third probably the most notable kidnapping and the one that made people go what was when five high school students went missing on the beach off the coast of South Korea all five kids

Vanished authorities chocked it up to a very sad very unfortunate drowning at Sea and ENT with the teenagers who clearly didn’t know better with the exception of their loved ones their loved ones are like no my my kids are out there somewhere the whole world moved on 20 years later the five high

School students were now middle-aged and discovered to be in a spy School in North Korea they were taken by North Korea for the sole purpose of training North Koreans training North Koreans what does that mean there’s a lot of North Korean spies acting as locals in countries all over the world

Mhm so how do you North Korea I mean you look at pictures you look at the way they dress you look at the way they talk it’s nothing like how you would expect someone in China Japan or South Korea to talk so they kidnap locals and they make

Them train North Koreans Cadence culture speaking memes clothing choices even how to use a credit card everything has to be taught to these North Korean spies they get a fake identity then they get sent to live in these countries acting like a local according to firsthand accounts

There is at least one confirmed spy school in the mountains of North Korea the spy school is said to have large scale models of so in different cities around the world that are pretty precise it said that the facilities have tunnels that are underground that are 40 ft tall

That are bomb prooof they have scales and models of buildings all around the world that are very important like the blue house which is the White House of South Korea and each kidnapped Foreigner would serve the North Korean regime and have very big parts to play and Kim

Jong’s grand scheme of control and power and director shin and actress Ani would have one of the biggest roles to play there’s a famous mountain in the Korean Peninsula every Korean knew about this mountain but the peninsula was divided and mount peku was now in North Korea

This is allegedly where Kim Jong was born at the height of winter temperatures are in the negatives Kim’s mom is trying to stay warm in a little cabin in the woods and she’s about to give birth there’s this angry storm raging just coming down on them relentless but the minute that Kim Jong

It is born the thunderstorm stops abruptly a double rainbow appears right in front of the cabin and it’s so bright the colors of this double rainbow are so intense it looks like the Lucky Charms packaging and a new star appears in the sky that very day to celebrate this is

The same thing as like this old school Chinese Legend yeah the sky clears up exactly the baby was so healthy that when Kim jonger first opened his mouth and cried all the fighters in the the mountains could hear it they came out of their tents and they started bursting into tears

Crying that Log Cabin where Kim was born was preserved and most citizens were expected to regularly visit and educate themselves director Shen and actress uni both had to go separately of course I don’t know if I should use this word but it was Goofy yeah it was Goofy The Log Cabin

Was supposed to have with stood Decades of storms just crashing down on the harsh mountain side two Wars but why did it look brand new it didn’t even just look brand new it felt like a prop like you know the difference between a real cabin and a

Cabin that you would find in Disneyland like there’s just something off about the dimensions and the wear and tear it just is confusing that’s what it looks like it looked like a prop for an amusement park but director Shen and actress Sunni were separately brought and trying to convince their teachers

This is this is yeah no I believe it now this makes sense this is where he was born both of them at first had tried fighting the indoctrination but it just wasn’t working they would be brought to museums where there would be paintings that depicted the Americans and what the

Americans did to North Koreans there’s literally pictures of Americans skinning North Korean children Alive Burning the babies in a bonfire turning them into s’mores scalping them taking off their skin off their heads and then putting it on their own heads while they’re all breathing and just out of pure like

Hedonistic Joy they also showed pictures of Americans surrendering to North Korea hanging White Flags out their Windows because Kim was such a great battler he won the war against the Americans and yet there were also framed New York Times articles that praise the Kim family side note you know how you can

Get those gag gifts of fake newspaper articles mhm those were the ones on the wall in the museums of North Korea and director Shen and actress Sun are like wow okay um great when the two weren’t going on field trips they were forced to read multiple hours a day sing

Songs that praise the Kim Dynasty they were forced to write love letters to the Kims it would read along the lines of our father our leaders undefeated in hundreds of battles leaders who refused to kneel before the US imperialist light of our people etc etc etc for 10 pages

Long they were told not everyone is privileged enough to write to the Kims you should feel thankful they said you could walk around North Korea and you could say something as simple as good morning and someone would respond yes it is a beautiful day thanks to the inspired teachings of our beloved

Revolutionary leader who has filled our hearts with the truth it is a good morning indeed director Shen and uni were also told that the South Korean people were starving and miserable that it was better to be in North Korea than the South the South Koreans are living hell with traffic accidents collapsing

Buildings 120 people disappear every single day it’s it’s a place filled with criminals American soldiers shoot at South Korean soldiers as target practice they run them over for fun they essay mothers and daughters in the dark Alleyways American soldiers are taking little South Korean Boys in as intimate

Slaves on their camps everything re of American sewage Americans just everywhere and the South Koreans have to clean it up clearly these two have lived in the South and knew that none of this was true they could easily argue otherwise but why bother indoctrination leaves very little room for good questions and open

Conversations so once Kim jonger feels like both of them uni and shin have separately been fully indoctrinated it was time to reunite them after years of being in North Korea separated unie was sitting at the table at another one of those Fish House parties there’s nothing exciting or thrilling about watching everyone run

Around the table whenever Kim feels like he’s lacking stimulation so she’s sitting there just staring at her food but definitely something is in that air that night Kim looks pleased with himself I mean he usually did but more so tonight and another guest comes up to

Anie grabs her elbow and says today will be the happiest day of your life I is looking like I highly doubt it okay cuz I haven’t felt happiness in years she just stares down at her food for the rest of the evening and then they all start screaming look up look up

The special guest is here look who it is Lise slowly lifts her head thinking it’s another some sort of general or some sort of North Korean actress she turns her head to the entrance and there was a very very thin very frail man that she half recognized as her husband director

Shin and it looked like his soul had been ripped out of him and for a moment uni had so many feelings she was devastated because what the hell is he doing here why why does he look like that is he okay and there was a guilty

Side of her that felt happy that she’s no longer alone and that made her feel guilty all over again and she slowly walked up to him because she felt like she was approaching a ghost like a a sick joke that’s not real but he lifted his hand to touch her face and they

Embraced and sobbed into each other’s arms everyone in the room thought that they were so happy to be reunited so they clapped and cheered and Kim jangir got up and he laughed like it was one of the best silly little April Fool’s pranks that he’s ever played and he pulls

Director Shin to one side of him actress unie to one side and forces a picture and he smacks him on the back and says relax this isn’t going to end up in the South Korean papers this is not yeah oh they both sit back down at the at the tables uni

Watches Shin as director Shin laughs and jokes about movies with Kim Shin crinkles his eyebrow and watches uni as she speaks pleasantly with all the other guests and they all both look like they’re at home at ease with their lives and they try to stare into each other’s eyes and

Analyze what if what if one of them had been successfully brainwashed after dinner Kim thought it was reasonable that the to stay in the same Villa because he wants them to remarry he wants them to have a wedding ceremony to celebrate this reunification it’s a whole thing but not that any and

Shin are complaining like they had been alone in this foreign country for years without anybody they want to be around each other but they’re also nervous because they don’t know if one of them is a Kim Jong your supporter now so once they shut that door to their room with

The guards outside there was just silence and then Shin looks at unie Uni looks at Shin Shin looks at her and says have you been brainwashed and the two bust out laughing and there’s tears just streaming down their face I mean there’s just so much to tell each other but they

Would have to do it bit by bit in unsupervised walks around the back or sometimes they would go to the bathroom turn on all the faucets and whisper in a corner because every house in every room of every place in North Korea is likely bugged oi told her ex-husband about how

She was kidnapped she had gone to Hong Kong for a movie deal ever since their divorce with you know everything going on their businesses had started to fall apart because they were no longer the power couple in the movie industry opportunities were few and far between

And uni got this call that a Hong Kong based investor wanted her to direct a film but needed to have an in-person meeting with her innie thought yeah okay fine maybe it’s too good of an opportunity but she needed it so she’s like remember the movie deal I told you

About I should have listened to you director Shen was actually the one that told her it was alarming and that she was likely being scammed but she didn’t believe him she thought that he’s just jealous because he’s getting ripped apart in the papers about how he cheated

On unie and has this younger mistress and he he just doesn’t like the idea of her succeeding without him so she goes to Hong Kong the investor gets her personal tour guide let’s call her Lily Lily was a middle-aged woman who brought along her 12-year-old daughter and the

Two of them would just show un around Hong Kong really wooing her they’re hanging out around the shore when a motorboat comes up to them in the water oi thought it was just kind of dangerously close but it all happened so fast F foreign men in really long really

Bizarre wigs jump out grab the group throw them onto the motorboat un’s convinced that she’s being robbed or these are like Pirates they’re now speeding faster into the deep water oi needs to do something for everybody’s sake she looks up and Lily her guide is incredibly calm she’s smoking a

Cigarette enjoying the breeze what’s going on everything’s going to be all right unie did unie know that she was being kidnapped by North Korea unie would later say yes the wigged men knew her name how do you guys know my name because we’re chosan huge context here in South Korea

We call ourselves like hukam like hanguk right which is a Korean person but in North Korea they call themselves chosan chosan CH yes yes so it’s like olden day yeah that’s what Korea was called before yes but now it’s like hukam right and it’s like it’s the difference of someone

Going I’m American versus I’m a Frontiersman it’s like very bizarre the boat had all the different national flags of neighboring countries so that they could switch it out depending whose Waters they were on that’s when uni knew everything had been thoroughly mapped out if you will that meant her being

Taken to North Korea was all part of some some sort of weird bigger plan and she wanted nothing to do with it she tried to jump off the boat into the ocean but one of the long-haired men they grabbed her slammed her back down and she was dragged into a cabin where

She was drugged into into a slumber for 8 days she would periodically wake up and she would feel the boat swaying and she would stare up and there would just be a portrait of kimy staring down at her Shin director Shin saw the same painting staring at him on the boat he

Told unie that he had gone to Hong Kong looking for her because the last time he heard from her was hey I’m going to Hong Kong for this movie deal and then she vanished and then all the Press police and reporters thought that he had something to do with it he found out

That Lily that woman who was giving her a tour of Hong Kong was actually a North Korean citizen not only that there was a man named Mr Kev Mr Kev had lived in Hong Kong for years and had worked with Shin films for years now he was the one

That told uni that he knows an investor who wants to work with her so now he’s helping director Shin look for uni he was a North Korean spy living in Hong Kong for years for years he worked with them for years but he was a spy who’s a

Spy wow you can’t trust anyone huh no when director Shen went to Hong Kong to look for uni he was the only one that helped and ultimately he’s the one that facilitated his kidnapping which happened that just the same motorboat four men in atrocious long-haired wigs

Jumped at him threw a bag over his head but it was more like a sack they rolled it down all the way covered his whole body they cut a slit where his noses almost cutting him on the face they sprayed chloroform inside he was in and

Out of sleep during his trip to North Korea when he arrived his house was beautifully stocked all of his favorite Cosmetics favorite skincare Brands back at home clothing perfectly tailored like perfectly tailored 32 in sleeves 16 and 1/2 in collars filling the closet when he sat down for dinner a woman came up

And placed a singular bowl of cold noodles in front of him uni got a whole Feast but he got a singular Bowl she bent down and said we heard cold noodles are your absolute favorite is it though yeah director Shen tried to escape North Korea into China

Twice yeah unie never tried to escape she was just depressed she was locked up and depressed she never tried to escape sometimes the most she would do is just scream in the direction of South Korea at the top of her lungs yeah but director chin he’s trying and both were

Risky decisions both horribly planned one time he stole a guard’s Mercedes that was parked outside the house that he was locked in okay so the only reason he was able to steal the car was because so little people drive cars in North Korea so little people even know how to

Drive so little people have access to be near a car and even if you steal a car per se where would you sell it without getting caught where would you even put that car as a result everyone just kind of left their keys in the cars when they

Got out the guard left his key in the car Shin escaped out of the house started driving as fast as he could in the direction of China he ends up crashing into a ditch because there’s not a lot of well-made roads in North Korea he realized he’s not heading

Towards China he took the wrong direction he’s heading towards South Korea so his new plan now is to jump into the inin river and swim to South Korea which really bad plan by the way like this only works in the movies inan river is nicknamed the river of the dead

Because so many bodies get swept down into the South Korea from there it runs from North Korea to South Korea across the DMZ line so for those unfamiliar there’s What’s called the DMZ parallel in the middle of the Korean Peninsula it separates South and North Korea and it’s

165 mi long 2 and 1/2 mil wide it’s no man’s land it’s filled with land mes it’s filled with armed guards on both sides you run they shoot thankfully he didn’t get into the water and instead he found a train he snuck up the side of

The train he got to the top and he’s like this is actually heading in the opposite way so now we’re going back to China he ends up falling asleep on top of the train and was caught he was thrown in prison once he got out he immediately started planning another

Escape this time he wanted to play Mind Games he found a hole in the wall of the house that he was trapped in and he thought you know what if I just hide in this wall for as long as possible and the officers are out there searching for

Me they’re going near the borders of China and South Korea then I can sneak out then I can run and they won’t be looking for me they won’t expect it but like what what was they doing again they were filming movies no or not yet they’re being indoctrinated oh this was

This period they were just trying to brainwash it and they okay got it they’re just trapped in a house with any that they want if they want something expensive that doesn’t risk escaping or communicating with the outside world they would get it you want 25 lobster

Tails for every meal you could get it Kim Jong was willing to do whatever they wanted as long as they took their little lessons they got indoctrinated they didn’t try to escape and then he would test them with making movies because Kim Jong is very paranoid he does not want

To give them any sort of camera gear or anything until he can trust that they are on North Korea’s side yeah yeah yeah okay so he’s trying to escape at that point yeah and they this lasted for years you saying years yeah with his second Escape which was very quickly

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Like a separate kind of torture they were the same stories repackaged in different fonts so repetitive so surface level so bad how many times can the Kim family be heroes and everyone die for the nation and for the Kims how many times why is everyone always crying for

The Savior Kim and how great he is and how much they want to die for him not only that just watching the way it’s filmed the angles the props the effects it’s driving director Shen up the wall he’s going crazy there’s no common sense in North Korean movies no efficiency

Nothing it’s a money pit if there’s a scene in someone’s office then there’s another scene outside on the street which is a set then another scene back in the office the production team in North Korea would film in chronolog iCal order of the movie scenes so they would

Build the office set film 2 seconds break it down move it out the way then build the street set film 2 seconds break it all the way down build up the office set again film two SEC instead of filming both office scenes in the office set in one go actors and actresses would

Just randomly be sent to prison in the middle of filming and instead of finding a replacement or trying to fix the movie they would just cut out all their parts and release the movie as is so like most of the movie doesn’t even make sense it’s swiss cheese of a storyline

When there were Western characters in the movies because remember every movie is about how bad everyone mainly the US is a Korean actor would have to wear a white powder all over their face and body wear a wig and talk in a really dumb sounding Korean accent if there are

Any diplomats who came to visit North Korea like real diplomats and had children that looked like foreigners king Jong would be like can I borrow your kid for an hour what does that mean and they would be brought to the movie set for like a day and they would be

Forced to change into like a thousand different wigs in costumes and play the evil Foreigner villain what there’s there’s no foreigners because North Korea is completely homogeneous yeah yeah so they would take a diplomat kids yeah and film them in a movie yeah and I guess the Diplomat didn’t care because

It’s not like movies are coming out of North Korea wow and I guess it’s also how do you say no to Kim J right okay yeah huh yeah it South Korea Japan America always had to be depicted in rain at night time no sunshine allowed I mean side note

They also only had one street for each country so any scene in South Korea regardless of time or context was filmed on the same street every single time all the characters from those countries had to have disabilities yeah yet citizens of North Korea were told that the film industry

In their country was quickly becoming the most advanced in the entire world and because they didn’t have access to any foreign films to compare them to they loved it they agreed this was world class Kim knew it’s very easy to convince his people though but what about the rest of the

World they all laughed at his movies and regardless of how much he hates the west and he really really thinks they’re evil he just wants their approval that’s why he kidnapped actress uni and director Shin to make better movies like their life depended on it because you know it

Did so he wants to make movie and release it to the world yes is this still about the same type of concept or is it trying to be more no now he wants to just create the best movies he wants to create American level movies but he

Doesn’t know how mhm he does want some elements of propaganda he wants to show North Korea in a good light in all the movies but it doesn’t have to be as propaganda as the ones he’s currently making because it’s not just for his people they were in a very strong battle

For soft power and exports North Korea and South Korea were in one of the longest export battles and one of it is culture exporting culture is an economy honestly okay now shin and uni had earned Kim’s trust and their plans were to make the best movies that

They could not even for Kim but honestly for the North Korean people so this is when they’re reunited you’re saying yeah after they’re reunited they’re like forced to watch these North Korean movies and Kim is finally telling them this is why I brought you here cuz

You’re going to make me movies now you love North Korea I love North Korea let’s make some movies I’m going to give you a crazy budget every year do what you want all the while these two are planning their escape and the first step of Escape is insurance they need proof

That they were kidnapped and did not willingly defect to North Korea which sounds crazy in 2024 that someone would willingly defect to North Korea but it just happened recently when we talked about the auto case remember uh-huh a US Soldier ran through the DMZ line to North Korea recently in 2023 but back

Then it was even more believable people were still kind of deciding which side they wanted to be on like which side of South or North Korea and this is when tensions were even higher because North and South Korea for any South Korean to have unsupervised contact with a North

Korean citizen even if that citizen was their own brother or sister or mother it didn’t matter it would be considered treason which is one of the highest punishable crimes even if these two escaped North Korea they could be trading one prison for another they might get arrested for treason in South

Korea and thrown in jail for the rest of their lives they might not be believed so they needed proof absolute irrefutable proof Kim jangir was 41 years old and considered the heir a parent and the North Korean public had not even heard his voice yet no intelligence agency in

The entire world had heard Kim’s voice if director shin and uni wanted Asylum anywhere in the world they needed something everyone wanted recordings of Kim’s voice because that would be wanted by the CIA the feds the CIA of South Korea everyone who had the political power to Grant Asylum and safety would do

Anything for those tapes that was their insurance plan they were going to get the first ever audio recording of Kim junger’s voice and expose The Hermit Kingdom to the rest of the world the ruler of the paranoid Nation now just to give you some context of how dangerous their plan is Kim kept

Paranoia alive in his country but he was equally as paranoid it’s alleged that he had tunnels running under the entire country that doubled as bomb shelters and that’s how he liked to travel the most he his bulletproof train was a gift from Joseph Stalin himself he would avoid American spy satellites

That’s what he said he was doing he was not someone who liked to be tracked watched or listened to so they couldn’t Rush this they had the tape recorder from all their filming gear that they were given to start making some movies and they took the time to rehearse like they would

Rehearse their movie lines treat it like a movie we’re just acting right don’t let the nerves get to you they train day after day to perfect their body movements okay sit down at the dinner table unie would reach into her cross body bag for the lipstick and click the

Tape recorder would be running she would place the bag on her lap away from his view but not too far or too closed that his voice would be muffled it was a game where the stakes were as high as they get it’s life or death there’s no in

Between there are no rewards in North Korea or only punishments so if a family member defects or dies by su the entire family gets thrown into a concentration camp if you rescue your children in a house fire and let your Kim family portrait burn concentration camp if you

Don’t mourn the death of any of the Kims enough concentration camp if you fall asleep at a meeting where any of the Kims are present death if you read any Western novel in North Korea death if you watch a K drama death one of North Korea’s biggest actresses at the time

Was a woman named U and he we’re going to call call her Wendy now Wendy was known as The People’s actress everybody loved her every film she was in Kim jonga had a hand in and the public ate it up she was married to another director that worked on the movies and

The only problem was Wendy was a hopeless romantic and she had some pretty dangerous Affairs she just seemed awfully lonely you know and clearly her husband is just not helping with that feeling so she just keeps looking for some sort of connection or bond with other people and they would convince her

That it’s love and they would sleep with her and then they would walk away she was just very an easy and quick person to fall in love and in a country where even holding hands publicly is highly frowned upon one affair would lead to the end of her life an affair with a

Korean man from Japan his dad is a very wealthy Japanese businessman he funded the Kim regime for years now and his son was being sent to North Korea to work and he falls in love with Wendy he starts relentlessly pursuing her he does not give up and for a while Wendy’s

Fighting back she doesn’t want it but he’s also charismatic and caring and he’s seen the world I mean what could they do they couldn’t get intimate at each other’s homes or at hotels because hotels check permits there was nothing the only option was his Mercedes so they

Drove it out to the park and in the dark they were intimate they had the engine running the windows closed it’s winter time they fall asleep in each other’s arms the next morning the wealthy businessman’s son was found dead in the car from carbon monoxide poisoning Wendy

Was also in the car unconscious but still alive she was rushed to the hospital she was saved she had a husband and children and the affair with the Japanese businessman’s son not only complicated things for the Kims because he was a huge funer of the Kim Dynasty

But it just it was a very messy public situation and worse than that Wendy had another man on the side Kim Jong Il H she had cheated on Kim jangir and he was not one to let it slide after Wendy fully recovered from the hospital all of

Her friends and family were driven to a shooting range with the stadium it was packed with 5,000 people and they were told just you wait it’s going to be a big show they waited in silence until they saw a woman wearing a prisoner’s outfit which side note it’s rumored that

These outfits in North Korea are designed with theatrics in mind meaning if someone starts bleeding in one of these prison costumes or these uniforms the blood soaks and spreads across the fabric faster making it very visually intense anyway a woman is pulled out with a bag over her head and she’s tied

To a wooden pole in the center of the stadium so the stadium right now is filled with people 5,000 people okay there are ropes around her chest ropes around her knees the bag is taken off her head and there is Wendy screaming for help when her husband and

Friends and children realize it’s her they start screaming in the crowd and almost as quickly as it registered the firing squad fire a single shot to her chest the bullet rips through the Rope unleashing the top half of her body and it causes all of her weight to Lunge

Forward as if she’s bowing to an audience then the next bullet goes straight to her head it was winter time and a Defector once said that you see a lot of steam coming from point blank executions of the head during the winter time so there was a lot of steam then

One more shot is given to the legs to break the ropes holding the lower half of Wendy’s body and she will fall to the floor of the podium the guards will put her in a bag take her into the mountains and let the wild animals rip her apart and three lucky children after

This the stadium doors open and the children run in and only three lucky children will get to run out with the bullet casing cuz that’s a souvenir so they sent a bunch of kids in there and they they’re rushing to find the bullet the ones that were used to kill

Wendy a woman that they had seen on the screen countless times the people’s actress Kim junger’s mistress someone very close to Kim described him as being you know he’s somewhat likable that’s the thing he has an ability or rather a talent at making people feel at ease when he wants to

When he’s happy Kim dang would treat you so so well but when he’s angry he can make every window in the house shake the contradictions in his personality can be so confusing and incomprehensible he’s romantic yet extreme harsh and ultimately he’s very dangerous even for actress unie she said

That sometimes he would treat her like an elder with respect like she was the master teaching him something about film other times he would loudly talk about all the young actresses Uni’s ex-husband director Shin was rumored to have slept with while they were married another said he always craved power he always

Organized everything in secret and executed his plan in secret because that’s a specialty even with his dad when his dad was in charge the films made it seem like he was this subservient son who is fully devoted and worshiping Kim his dad right but in reality he was just scheming he just

Wants to be the head that’s it and he did this by dismantling his dad’s entire Inner Circle he would plant listening devices in all of his dad’s closest official homes and offices at first he would try to buy them he would listen to them talking about their favorite

Foreign cars foreign woman whatever it was he would buy it and if they still didn’t turn then he would blackmail them or he would just Korean barbecue them that’s when people are strung up like a hog by their wrist and ankles and held over a bonfire until they agree to do

Something or they confess to doing something that they probably didn’t even do he did this slowly to cut off all the tentacles of his dad’s octopus until his dad was just left with him his dad didn’t even really see it he felt like Kim was his son the only one that he could

Trust but Kim was smart this this is who uni and shin are trying to outsmart Kim Jong Il in order to make good movies shin and uni told him they have to go to Europe you know they’re only allowed to go to the communist countries in Eastern Europe

But and with 20 guards at the time and connecting hotel rooms with those cards but at least they’re getting out of North Korea each time they passed by any sort of American Embassy in Eastern Europe II wanted to Sprint she wanted to make a run for it but Shin would stop

Her they need the perfect moment and right now surrounded by 15 guards is not the moment do you know how many other guards could be undercover right now watching us we don’t know okay it’s not time so for years they went back and forth from Eastern Europe to North Korea

And they just kept making movies they didn’t even make movies for Kim they did it for the North Korean people whatever they made the people of North Korea would watch it they loved it this was their only source of entertainment and their whole thing was to take the

Propaganda out of it and they wanted to make the most basic movies that every other country has made a million times a movie about love between two people because North Korea didn’t have that they only had movies about love between the civilian and the Kings the dynasty

So they want to make movie about just a regular love and did they like that did kin Jang IL like that yes because he said it’s just like the European movies we’re getting closer to be internationally recognized M he only liked it because he wants to be internationally acclaimed for his

Films they said that Kim would do anything for these movies they were given $8.5 million a year for their movie filming budget and that’s not including all of the staff that they have at their disposal because they can choose anyone from North Korea to work

For them for free sky is the limit uni later joked when we needed a fan to simulate wind we reached out to Kim and he would send us a helicopter if we reached out to to get fake snow Kim would would fly the entire crew to mount peku where it was still

Snowing one movie had a train explosion and director Shin was talking to Kim about it and said yeah if we could get this very specific special effects scale model to blow up but Kim was like why not just a real train to blow up much

Easier yeah I got a bunch of those the next day a fully functioning train was delivered to Shin loaded with explosives they genuinely did get sucked back into movie making and they felt like there was a purpose the coup movies were the first time many North Korean civilians saw themselves as individuals

They would make a total of seven films each one loved by North Korea they’re finally getting this Escape they have musicals Sci-Fi movies martial arts movies kadi was their last film with North Korea and it’s the North Korean version of Godzilla I mean there’s still an underlying undertone of propaganda

And everything but it’s an Escape yeah yeah yeah are those even available anywhere do we know yeah I think so though yeah really mhm yeah it’s yeah they loved it and they just made hit after hit and Kim is so pleased I mean they’re still failing to gain a strong

International audience but that’s going to take time all that mattered was they’re getting closer and then the time came a Japanese film critic and a friend of the couple was visiting Budapest at the same time that director shin and uni were filming in Budapest how did they

Find out they still communicate with fil cuz they’re trying to get into these International Film show so they have to talk to film credits they have to talk to these award host and stuff highly monitored highly monitored there’s like a guard breathing down their neck right

Next to them with probably a gun pointed at them the couple gave the excuse of wanting to meet up with him to try and get him to review their North Korean movies and try to get International attention primarily in Japan and the guards okayed it after they talked to

Kim so the film critic was going to meet them in their hotel room they open the door to him the guards are in the Next Room over with the connecting door welcome come come in they loudly make their pleasantries oh how it’s been so

Long so good to see you so nice to how many years has it been and they drag him to the corner of the hotel room and they start shoving a tape recorder and photos into his pockets this is absolutely a secret between you and us please keep

These things for 6 months and if you don’t hear from us again after that time give everything to the Japanese and Korean news media go their friend looked worried but they didn’t have the time or the luxury to explain everything in detail it would be in those tapes they

Hugged him goodbye and pushed him out the hotel room door the tapes had recordings of Kim jangir talking about how he kidnapped them H okay and now they had 6 months to escape or else that would be all over the news and if they don’t escape that

Means they will be dead yeah that’s so interesting what does that six month do I don’t know I guess they were scared H cuz they needed a timeline of like when it needs to be released oh I see I see okay 5 months had passed since

They saw the film critic in Budapest and it was all over the news director shin and actress uni both missing from Hong Kong kidnapped by the north audio tapes were secretly sent to relatives in Soul and it’s reported that under North Korean coercion shin and unie are making

Movies to be presented to Kimi as a birthday gift the film Slanders the Republic of South Korea along with several other top officials okay Shin is staring at his guards it’s game over they’re going to die every international news headline read kidnapped by North Korea abducted to North Korea North korean’s operation

Against the South through films shin and uni waited for the call to be killed Kim Jong would not keep them alive after this no matter how well their movies are doing and the phone rang they’re sweating they pick it up and it’s Kim take care of this you need

To handle it maybe you guys need to go to Eastern Europe more make sure everyone knows that you’re not being held against your will convince them turns out Kim Jong records every single one of his conversations he was under the impression that someone on his side had leaked the

Tape oh my God and that shin and uni were fully on his side oh my God whether that’s what he truly believed or it’s just what he wanted to believe because he didn’t want to know that he was betrayed by the people that he needed it’s unclear but shin and unie would

Live to see another day know about these transcripts he does have a very high-pitched voice and he talks Rapid Fire fast like he’s just shooting out whatever’s on his mind and then not really finishing his thought and then going on to the next one and it’s very high-pitched so there are speculations

That he didn’t have a leadership voice which is why his father hid his voice for so long could be a thing I mean there are people that say there is such a thing as presidential voices but we do have a few Clips all the audio clips were not released I believe they’re held

By the CIA we have some transcripts but it’s fascinating I mean what kind of top secret is someone’s voice gonna do right I think maybe they can track him through his voice track him I don’t know I’m sure the CIA has a million things that they could do with his voice that we

Probably can’t do with his voice I’m not sure um yeah okay so he he talks very fast-paced and he does in one clip briefly bring up South Korea and he says we’re on a lower level to speak honestly South Koreans try very hard to get things done here people are different

Things are given to them North Korean actors aren’t improving they have no acting skills at all hard work is the key to success it’s difficult to talk about this I mean we have to admit that we’re falling behind we have to acknowledge that we’re behind I’m in the

Position to say it if others say it they will be in trouble for criticizing the system I’m the only one who can say this and I can tell only two of you there is nothing challenging when a film is made here the crew don’t try a single new

Thing they can’t improve they repeat scenes that we’ve already made he also tries to convince them that that if they talk to Outsiders they should tell them that they like it here say that there’s no freedom in the South no democracy that it’s only anti-communism you came

Here to find real Freedom that’s what you should you should be saying freedom of expression we want our film industry to become even more advanced than that of advanced countries I think I think that would sound good natural well better than saying that you were forcefully dragged here right this was the clip

Yeah After all that shin and uni put on a show trying to convince the world that they were not forcibly brought to North Korea they spoke about how much money there is in the film and industry there how much support they’ve been getting how little censorship that they face

They became publicly regarded as traitor by the world but that’s what it took to stay alive nobody questioned it they were forced to say these things but nobody questioned it and a lot of it has to do with un’s past so the actress there were rumors that uni always wanted

To defect to the north because she during the Korean war was forced to sleep with North soldiers is the allegation she did work as an Entertainer of the northern camps we don’t know if she was forced to sleep with them right rumors were brutal and

Then she moved over to the South fled to the South and then she was placed into the southern armies and then there were rumors that she cozied up to a high-ranking American General and became his mistress everyone said she’s always been a flip-flopper so of course she would defect to the

North every bad thing about the couple started resurfacing like the fact that uni was at first she married a very famous cameraman and she was 20 years old he was 41 yeah and during the war he was enlisted to fight he became injured disabled and then she left him for a

Younger hotter more successful director Shin left him high and dry and of course a person like that would defect to the north nobody cared for any of the other details like the fact that her former husband cameraman would beat and rward her regularly that she was constantly covered in blood and weals while

Expecting her to keep the house work 20 hours a day to make money or the fact that if she did have intimate relations with any Soldier or general from any side of the war it was our word because she never consented to it she was an alist actress at this point but she

Would take on back toback plays sleeping just an hour or night every single night this is after the war right and she’s already made it but she has no money her husband just blows all her money and she’s sleep deprived doing nothing one day she’s on stage Midway through the

Play She dramatically faints not in the script the other actors are shocked they don’t know what to do they’re confused director Shin was in the audience and he jumped up from his seat onto the stage picked her up and ran all the way to the nearest hospital uni said he had a

Beautiful smile and he looked like he had no concerns or difficulties in life and he looked at her and he said do you want to star in my movie it’s interesting because it’s hard to say if they love each other more or if they love each other’s movie making

Abilities more both were genuinely obsessed with the craft of movies I think neither of them gave a flying Fork about the fame so together they go on they marry they go on to create Shin films which is a big freaking deal it was the only Film Studio in all of South

Korea the winning formula was director Shin would produce and direct a film that his wife unie would star in the first few movies were yeah okay they were met with skepticism because they were known as like a morally corrupt couple at the time but she was just so

Good it was undeniable it was an elevated form of a movie people hated them but would still go watch their movies because it’s a good movie and then slowly they kept watching more and more and then the hatred just went away and the audiences are just eating it up

To the point where this couple they’re the power couple they’re being invited to the blue house to rub shoulders with the then president dictator at the time it was a lot and director Shin made the biggest budget films and he paid his wife uni with the largest fees ever paid

To a Korean actress and everything Shin films created uni was an equal partner like they were ahead of their time director Christian would tell uni every day any film I make I want you to be in it and uni said that is how he said I

Love you side note unie was unable to conceive and she did adopt two kids a son and a baby girl and she really loved being a mom Shin said about his wife it was my destiny to meet her and it’s kind of hard to pinpoint where Shin film

Self-destructed it could have been when director Shin cheated on his wife I mean that was kind of the beginning point of the decline it could have also been when the president or dictator of South Korea started becoming a very strong Enthusiast of censorship but Shin film

Was on the decline I will say the censorship in South Korea got really wild it got to the point where if a character in a movie even complained a bit too passionately about the weather like ah the weather sucks they would censor the movie claiming the movie promoted antisocial Behavior director

Shin didn’t like any of that okay so he just kept making movies that he liked he didn’t listen and adding to that problem is that director Shin is an all-in kind of guy if he had a new movie in mind he would spend the entire company’s yearly

Budget and payroll on this new movie without even thinking about the risk he’s like well it’s going to work out and most of the time it did until it didn’t they were always on the verge of filing for bankruptcy they’re like one toilet paper roll being used too quickly

Away from losing it all but ultimately a 3se second kiss would be his undoing in his new movie he had a couple making out and the woman was topless in that scene the government ordered absolutely not that needs to be taken out but he kept it in he violated public moral codes and

He was stripped of his movie making license he was ruined for life he ruined his life and this time he had ruined un’s life too this time Shin’s promising while they’re being held captive by North Korea making movies I’m not going to let it happen again any I’m not going

To ruin your life I’m going to get you out of here and the perfect chance came in Vienna they’re trying to get their version of Godzilla prasi to be accepted into Western film festivals so they’re running around Vienna and they had already spotted the American Embassy earlier that trip and they’re ready to

Leave at any given time as long as they find the perfect chance so they do it they told the guards that they’re meeting with a Japanese film director and they’re going to meet him in front of the hotel the guards are waiting in the lobby they’re like looking out the

Window making sure everything’s okay the Japanese film director gets out of the taxi and instead of closing the door the two shove him back into the taxi get in lock the doors and they scream at the taxi to take them to the American Embassy that’s crazy they were in that

Taxi for 5 minutes it felt like 5 hours when the taxi turned the corner and the embassy was finally in view they slammed open the door started making a run for it unie said they’re running as fast as they can but it feels like a slow motion

Scene in a movie she said that’s all she could think about this feels like slow motion this feels like slow motion when they finally reach the embassy door is walked they shove each other out the way to get inside first but they both made it before the

North Koreans could get to them and they had done it they were finally free and they had a bag full of tapes to share with the CIA in a very wild Story the CIA informed the couple that they had to go into witness protection for a while because Kim allegedly put a

Hit out on their heads in exchange for telling the CIA everything that they know about their time in North Korea the couple were granted citizenship and asylum in the United States are they still alive or they both passed wow what a life yeah even in America Shin still tried

His hand at films he signed a deal with Disney but the movies performed horrendously and it just didn’t go well yeah and they never felt at home they never made money they were living in pretty much poverty in America they moved back to South Korea where again

They were living pretty much in poverty and even in South Korea some people don’t even believe that they were truly kidnapped some people think they defected and then they didn’t like it and then they changed their minds wow but unie shakes her head and says the most important thing to me is

For people to finally accept that the truth is the truth that’s my last wish Kimi s the founder of North Korea died there were reports of citizens of North Korea fleeing M themselves off the rooftops to join their leader but also reports of entire families and generations of families being arrested

And killed shot on site because they were not quote showing genuine displays of grief during his funeral in early 2011 director Shin passed away he was remarried to Troy and he when he passed and it destroyed her when he died she said when we first divorced I could

Still hate him and miss him but at least I knew he was out there living in the world somewhere but now he’s gone and there’s nothing left death is very cruel thing later that Year Kim Jong died and his son Kim Jong-un would take over as

The supreme leader of North Korea and in 2017 Kim Jong Nam Kim jong’s first son and Kim jong-un’s half brother would be killed by two girls who thought they were filming a YouTube prank video that I will link below and in 2018 CH in the actress passed away and now foreign movies are

Considered one of the biggest threats to North Korea the smuggling of foreign movies is a huge Network and at one point one of the top movies smuggled in was Skyfall James Bond another one was Desperate Housewives and a North Korean Defector said after watching that people were confused they always thought

Americans were these War loving violent criminals but they’re just having Affairs and living their lives desperate housewife do you know what that was about we saw it with um evil angoria I think oh I think so okay okay okay so it’s a very goofy yeah it’s

Like a very goofy domestic mhmh and more recently squid game was smuggled in one North Korean citizen told a black market Smuggler that a lot of him and his friends watched it and they felt a lot of parallel in their own lives they could relate to the

Show and that was opening up their eyes to what kind of country they live in and that is the story of the actress and the director that Kim Jer kidnapped to make movies for North Korea what are your thoughts on this case I mean it’s so bizarre honestly but also I’m so freaked

Out by my search history for this one so I’m worried about your safety yeah but let me know your thoughts in the comments please stay safe and I’ll see you guys on Sunday for the next one bye

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