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...cars. The Explorer had a lower rate of fatal accidents from 1991 to 1999 than 9 of 11 other SUVs. Of the most popular models, the Explorer came in two spots ahead of the Chevy Blazer but behind the Jeep Cherokee and the top-ranked Grand Cherokee. Honda's Passport was last...
...Mickey Mouse summit? Maybe in Tomorrowland. In the real world, Pyongyang-watchers from Seoul to Washington 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...
...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 days of closed-door huddling, Japan on Friday put Kim and his three companions?two women...
...moratorium on missile tests, signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about the Kims...
...Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, was deported from Japan after trying to sneak into the country with two women and a four-year-old boy he wanted to take to Tokyo Disneyland. Japan and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, so Nam, 29, was traveling with a Dominican passport under the name Pang Xiong. The Japanese government refused comment on the case in an effort to avoid further embarrassment to North Korea, but several news agencies confirmed Nam's identity. The trip could mark a potential split between Jong Nam, the presumptive future ruler of North Korea...