MOVIES - Jan. 1, 1988

A bizarre tale of the abduction of a South Korean movie director and his actress wife from Hong Kong to North Korea nine years ago--under the orders of the son of North Korean President Kim Il Sung--came to light Thursday in a story from the South Korean Kyodo News Service. The news service said in a dispatch from Washington that it has obtained a tape recording “purportedly” of Kim Jong Il (son of the North Korean president) telling film director Sin Sang Ok, 61, and his actress wife Choi Un Ki that North Korean agents abducted them because the younger Kim wanted the couple to make movies in North Korea. An unidentified lawyer for the couple, who defected to the United States in 1986 from Vienna, said they planned to submit the tape March 1 in a $50 million lawsuit against the younger Kim in Austria.