Posted on 02/28/2018 4:25:11 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Exclusive: North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western visas - sources
Guy Faulconbridge
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LONDON (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources told Reuters.
While North Korea’s ruling family is known to have used travel documents obtained under false pretences, there are few specific examples. The photocopies of the Brazilian passports seen by Reuters have not been published before.
“They used these Brazilian passports, which clearly show the photographs of Kim Jong Un and Kim Jong Il, to attempt to obtain visas from foreign embassies,” one senior Western security source said on condition of anonymity.
“This shows the desire for travel and points to the ruling family’s attempts to build a possible escape route,” the security source said.
The North Korean embassy in Brazil declined to comment.
Brazil’s foreign ministry said it was investigating.
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Why would they have had any desire to leave that workers paradise?
We could ask the “Clowns,” but they’re a little busy right now! LOL
You’d think that the NORKS ,, famous for making perfect copies of US currency could print good fake passports themselves.
Hmmmmm? The Odessa escape route being used by the Norks? Interesting. I guess they were a little worried? Is the Pope involved?
Why make the effort when there's easier paths? Our FBI doesn't protect our country - they protect liberal elites.
Why make the effort when there's easier paths? Our FBI and CIA don't protect the country - they protect corrupt liberal elites.
WOW...! That is wild..!
A similar scandal got Kim Jong Nam busted.
He was trying to visit Tokyko Disneyland. He used a Dominican passport but got busted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1310374.stm
This is the guy who later got whacked by the two whores with topically applied VX (gas) in a Malaysia airport; supposedly they were deceived into thinking it was intended as a practical joke.
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