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...favorite. The only other known contender is 33-year-old Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Il's son by another union, but he's believed to have been in the doghouse since 2001 when he was caught trying to visit Disneyland by entering Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport. The question now is whether Ko's death might dent her children's succession chances and improve the odds that Kim Jong Nam will reclaim his spot as No. 1 son. In the meantime, it's anyone's guess what impact Ko's death might have on Kim Jong...
...globe, passing through Hungary, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea. By 2000, Japan and the Philippines had become his primary home bases, and he reportedly reveled in the relative anonymity they afforded him. Yet Fischer never truly went into hiding. He traveled using his real identity and passport, and he twice dared to pass directly under the U.S. government's nose. In 1997, Fischer renewed his passport at the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and he returned there in 2003 to get 20 new passport pages...
...sees every few months. While legal experts say marrying Watai might substantially improve Japan's willingness to let Fischer stay in the country, Fischer's application is now caught in a catch-22: one of the documents he needs to submit to get married in Japan is a valid passport...
...clear why the U.S. has chosen to pursue Fischer more vigorously after all these years. Japan's immigration authorities detained him as he attempted to board a flight from Tokyo to Manila, acting on a letter from the U.S. State Department, which notified them that his passport had been revoked in November 2003. John Bosnitch, a Canadian journalist and consultant in Japan who has founded an organization called the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer, says the U.S.'s invalidation of Fischer's passport did not follow due process because Fischer was not properly notified of the action...
...more legal challenges. They are also trying to get Fischer valid travel documents from a third country, which might prove to be a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card. While requests to a variety of countries for asylum have so far come to nothing, Bosnitch says a German passport remains a possibility: "Because Bobby's father was a German citizen, Bobby is a German citizen. But since Bobby has never asserted that citizenship before, he doesn't have a passport. We are in the process of collecting the necessary documents." A German official acknowledges that Fischer's supporters have...