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...Fights That Won't Happen?And Why BAD PLACES Punch-up in Pyongyang Row in Mindanao
...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...
...Officially the Japanese government that stopped and 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...
...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 Il or his family, you're dead," says Ahn Jung Sook, who worked as a journalist in Pyongyang before defecting to South Korea last year. Kim Jong Nam's mother is thought to be a former actress who left North Korea years ago and is now believed to be receiving psychiatric care in Russia. His childhood was spent as a recluse; he saw little of anybody except...
...other words, while the administration has undertaken to talk to North Korea, it hasn't yet formulated its own policy. And that may mean that whatever conversation it holds with Pyongyang later this year could still be rather terse, and brief...