A Kim Jong-Il Production The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

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Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10

This is probably I say this all the time but this is probably one of my favorite books of the year just really absorbs you and sucks you in and the amount of research

and like I said even my Korean parents who grew up in that generation they learned stuff from this book I mean

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There's such a good book on this. It's called "A Kim Jong Il Production" and it's written by a film producer who studied film in Paris, has directed a ton of movies, a documentary movie called Radio Man that I had no idea that he had a part of.

His name is Paul Fisher. I mean, this is his first and only book. I don't even know what to say. Conducted over 50 interviews. This guy's meticulous. He gets all his facts.

He even talked to North Korean defectors. He traveled to South Korea, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong, North Korea, even North Korea. Yeah. He even stayed in the exact hotel rooms that the victim stayed in.

I mean, this is the most meticulous book that I have ever seen on a subject like this. I was bonding with my parents and there were things in this book that my parents had no idea happened.

They're like, "What? Like I live through this. How do I not know that this happened?"

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He had an absent father who was by all accounts a womanizer who spent more time with women from the secretarial pool than he did with his kids and remarried fairly soon to a woman that Kim Jong-il resented and whom along with his half-siblings, he tried to erase out of North Korean history the second he had the power to.