Shin Sang Hee Book Report

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The novel “A Kim Jong Il production” by Paul Fischer emphasizes in kidnapping, films, tortures, and leaders in the country. There are two couples from South Korea who are film makers known as Shin Sang-OK and Choi Eun-Hee, who were kidnapped by the great leader of North Korea, and brought to Pyong Yang to make successful films. Shin was popular at filming good movies and Choi was an actress, but turned out to film with Shin after they were both kidnapped. However, Kim Sung became a leader of North Korea at the year of 1948 and passed away at the year of 1994. Sung gave up his title to his son Kim Jung at the year of 1972, and took over leadership of North Korea. After World War two Korea was split up into two countries, which is North Korea and South Korea. Thereafter, North Korea was known as Democratic People Republic of Korea (DPRK). North Korea is a country where many of their people die from starvation, respect images, and …show more content…
I believe that it was the former president Bush from the united states, who created the six party talk because they did not want start a war, or bomb North Korea. The states that are involved in the six party talk are the US, China, Japan, Russia, North and South Korea. James Holmes states “I believe that we can make progress if everybody sticks to what was actually agreed to negotiations” (PG 3). When the countries agree to something means that there would be peace, and doing it the right way. For example, if I’m a troop of the US and I meet with someone from North Korea, but if he kidnaps one of my fellow troop then we will most likely attack North Korea. There is no negotiates when there are insults, or threats because the plan is to be friendly. However, the six party talk is where they set a time, date, and location and discuss things that need to be down to improve the

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