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Exclusive: North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western visas - sources
Reuters ^ | FEBRUARY 28, 2018 | Guy Faulconbridge

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kimjongil; kimjongun; nkorea



1 posted on 02/28/2018 4:25:11 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 02/28/2018 4:25:42 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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Why would they have had any desire to leave that workers paradise?


3 posted on 02/28/2018 4:27:21 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We could ask the “Clowns,” but they’re a little busy right now! LOL


4 posted on 02/28/2018 4:41:57 AM PST by stilloftyhenight ("Victorious warriors win first, then go to war." Sun Tzu)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You’d think that the NORKS ,, famous for making perfect copies of US currency could print good fake passports themselves.


5 posted on 02/28/2018 5:40:09 AM PST by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hmmmmm? The Odessa escape route being used by the Norks? Interesting. I guess they were a little worried? Is the Pope involved?


6 posted on 02/28/2018 6:08:07 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Cursor did it again?)
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You’d think that the NORKS ,, famous for making perfect copies of US currency could print good fake passports themselves.

Why make the effort when there's easier paths? Our FBI doesn't protect our country - they protect liberal elites.

7 posted on 02/28/2018 8:17:15 AM PST by GOPJ (It's NOT Russians changing the vote - it's illegals WITH HELP FROM DEMOCRATS.)
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To: Neidermeyer
You’d think that the NORKS ,, famous for making perfect copies of US currency could print good fake passports themselves.

Why make the effort when there's easier paths? Our FBI and CIA don't protect the country - they protect corrupt liberal elites.

8 posted on 02/28/2018 8:18:22 AM PST by GOPJ (It's NOT Russians changing the vote - it's illegals WITH HELP FROM DEMOCRATS.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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.


9 posted on 02/28/2018 12:20:17 PM PST by gaijin
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