1973 abduction of Kim Dae Jung to be made into movie in Japan.TOKYO, Aug. 8 Kyodo The 1973 abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. of Kim Dae Jung Kim Dae Jung (kĭm dā j  ng), 1924–, president (1998–2003) of South Korea. A native of South Jeolla prov. , now South Korean president,
from a Tokyo hotel to Seoul will be made into a movie in Japan,
employing cast and staff from both countries, the filmmakers said
Wednesday.
The movie, to be called KT, will be filmed in Japan and South Korea and will be released in both countries sometime in the spring of 2002, they said during a press conference held on the 28th anniversary of the incident. Japanese film director Junji Sakamoto will direct the movie, which will star Koichi Sato of Japan and Kim Gahb Soo of South Korea. The movie will be an entertainment film based on facts, they said. ''I was surprised to know that Japanese would take the lead in making a film about an incident which Koreans want to forget and which took place under military dictatorship A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military; it is similar but not identical to a , a state ruled directly by the military. . I will strive to ensure this movie will help further Korean-Japanese relations,'' the South Korean actor said during the press conference. Kim Dae Jung, then an opposition leader, was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point from a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 8, 1973 and was found in Seoul five days later. A fingerprint of an official at the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo was found in the hotel room from where he was abducted. Kim Dae Jung became South Korean president in February 1998 and won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. . |
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