Word: kim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wasn't the most auspicious coming-out party. The 29-year-old mystery man who tried to slip into Japan on a fake Dominican Republic passport last week turned out to be none other than the eldest son of North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Outside of North Korea, no one has seen much of Kim Jong Nam or even knows much about him, so his surprising arrival caused quite a stir. But for a man whose family and homeland provoke considerable gossip, speculation and fear, he came, he said, for the most prosaic of reasons: he wanted...
...were left wondering, as is usually the case with North Korean affairs, what's up. Since North Korean passport holders?even children of the country's leader?aren't welcome in most of the world, it's not unusual for well-connected North Koreans to travel with false papers. Kim, in fact, is believed to have traveled incognito to Japan on at least two other occasions...
...detained him wouldn't even confirm the identity of the man traveling as Pang Xiong, but privately everyone involved left little doubt about who he really was. Pyongyang was keeping mum on the affair, although a close contact of the regime in Tokyo insisted it "is nonsense that Kim Jong Nam would come to Japan." Immigration authorities, tipped off by British intelligence sources, stopped him at passport control and whisked him to a detention center at the airport last Tuesday. He quickly admitted to authorities that he was in fact the man nicknamed "The Little General" in Pyongyang. After three...
...That's when the public got its first good look at Kim, as dozens of reporters and photographers staked out Narita airport for a glimpse of the seldom-seen son of the Dear Leader. As he trudged across the tarmac, Kim turned out to be a pudgy man in glasses, brown vest, Rolex watch and gold rings?bearing a striking, if somewhat more modern, resemblance to Kim Jong Il. In South Korea, some suggested he looked like his grandfather Kim Il Sung...
...There's a sense of d?j? vu about the frenzied speculation concerning the identity and character of this alleged Kim. For years, North Korea-watchers have engaged in the same kind of tea-leaf reading about Kim Jong Il. Before he ascended to the throne, he was reported to be a womanizer, big drinker and pornography freak. But North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong...