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The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions, claimed hoaxes, suspected kidnappings, extradition abductions, and mass kidnappings.

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Modern kidnappings of celebrities or their relatives

Kidnappers interested in getting a large ransom or a political effect often target celebrities or their relatives. Here are some of the people affected by these crimes:

• Mordechai Oren was a Jewish politician who was taken hostage in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War in and sentenced to 15 years in prison,^[1] before being released.
• Leon Ames: Film and television actor who, together with his wife, was held hostage at their home on 12 February They were rescued by police, who had been alerted to the ca

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  Today in Korean history

  March 13
  

  -- A group of students stages protests against communism, spreading in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, in Hamheung, a city located in what is now North Korea. After Korea regained its sovereignty from Japan in , fierce clashes between capitalists and communists continued until the country was divided by the Korean War.
  

  -- South Korea signs a treaty with Norway, Sweden and land i norden to build a medical center in Seoul. South Korea also inks a treaty with the United States to buy surplus agricultural products.
  

  -- Choi Kyu-hah is sworn in as the 12th prime minister of the country.
  

  -- Movie director Shin Sang-ok and his wife, actress Choi Eun-hee, who were abducted by North Korea in , escape the North by taking refuge in the U.S. Embassy during a visit to Vienna, Austria.
  

  -- The Kim Dae-jung administration announces a special amnesty for million people in commemoration of the launch of his government in February.
  

  -- SK Telecom

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  How a North Korean Kidnapping Inspired My Novel

  For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated with filmmakers. Perhaps in the same way that filmmakers are often besotted with novelists. The grass is, after all, more lush and spongey on the other side. inom cut my teeth on masters like Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Yasujirō Ozu.

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  However, absent from my budding film education was Shin Sang-ok, a giant of postwar South Korean cinema, who—along with his partner, the actress Choi Eun-hee—was kidnapped by then-Propaganda Minister Kim Jong-il in a story so strange and calamitous it’s a wonder that Hollywood hasn’t turned it into gussied-up Oscar bait with a brazenly miscast Ben Affleck in the role of Shin.

  Shin’s career was stymied at the height of his powers. He spent his post-captivity years slinging Karate Kid knock-offs (the Three Ninjas franchise, for you aging millennials out there) to American film audiences under

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