SEOUL, South Korea -- Choi Eun-hee, a South Korean film icon once kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's regime in 1970s, has died at age of 92. She succumbed to chronic kidney disease on ...

South Korean film legend Choi Eun-hee, who was once abducted and forced to make movies for the North Korean regime, has died. She was 92. Born in the Korean city Gwangju in 1926, the former ...

Choi Eun-hee, left, and Shin Sang-ok, right, were imprisoned, then made to serve North Korea’s Kim Jong Il at his cinematic whims. Pic credit: ...

In 1978, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il, who at that time was 30 years old and only the son of the dictator, kidnapped a super famous, middle aged South Korean actress named Choi Eun-Hee, who was ...

Choi Eun-hee was abducted in Hong Kong in 1978, and when Shin searched for her there, he was also taken captive. It later emerged that they had been seized and brought to Pyongyang on the orders ...