[1][dead link] In August 2004, Jin, who had acquired South Korean citizenship after her arrival there two years earlier, and her husband, Mun Jeong-hun, traveled on their honeymoon to the Jilin Province in northern China.
Commissioned by a Japanese film production company, the couple had planned to make a video about the involvement of North Korea in the drug trade.
This middle-man was supposed to smuggle a video camera into North Korea, to facilitate gathering of evidence on film of the drug production taking place there.
Jin and her husband were abducted by four men disguised as road construction workers, but who, it is believed, were agents of the North Korean secret service.
[citation needed] The case proved to be politically highly charged for two reasons:[2] Jin's abduction to North Korea garnered a flurry of media attention.