The World - News from May 16, 1986
A South Korean film director and his wife who disappeared eight years ago said that Kim Jong Il, the son of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, ordered them kidnaped from Hong Kong in 1968. Shin San Ok and his wife, Choi Un Hui, told a news conference in Washington that Kim Jong Il forced them to make seven films to publicize North Korea. Two months ago, the couple turned up at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna while traveling for a film and said they wanted to defect. North Korea has accused them of trying to embezzle funds.
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