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  • Movie-buff Kim Jong-Il seeks joint foreign film ventures

    10/18/2005 12:55:12 PM PDT · by Sax · 27 replies · 578+ views
    World Tribune.com ^ | October 18, 2005 | EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM
    North Korea, which is commonly portrayed as the world's bad guy in Hollywood, is ready to open its film industry to foreign participation, an ethnic Korean movie director in China said. The isolated communist country led by movie-buff leader Kim Jong-Il hopes to revive the fortunes of the nation's once-thriving movie business though joint ventures with foreign producers, said Park Jun-Hee, who just completed the first film co-production between China and North Korea, "The Secret of Rikidozan." Kim Jong-Il is known to be an avid film lover, willing to do whatever it takes to get stars — even kidnapping them....