Saturday, January 07, 2012

NEWS_ New North Korean leader's mother twice secretly visited Japan

New North Korean leader's mother twice secretly visited Japan

(Mainichi Japan) January 7, 2012

The mother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un secretly visited Japan twice before her death in 2004, visiting her hometown of Osaka and shopping in Tokyo's posh Ginza district, it has been learned.


Ko Young Hee

Ko Young Hee, Kim's mother and mistress of the late former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, came to Japan in 1997 and 2000, Japanese intelligence sources have told the Mainichi. It has also surfaced that Chang Song Taek, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea and the husband of Kim Jong Il's younger sister, visited Japan twice sometime around 1980 under a false name. Chang serves as Kim Jong Un's guardian.


Chang Song Taek (Photo courtesy of Korean Central News Agency)

The revelations suggest that Kim's family has held a keen interest in Japan, with Kim Jong Un, his brother Kim Jong Chol and half-brother Kim Jong Nam also having made secret visits to Japan.

According to the sources, Ko Young Hee visited Japan in 1997 and 2000, both times before returning to Pyongyang after having breast cancer treatment in France. She reportedly disguised her name and status during her visit to Japan. Born in Osaka, she was a North Korean resident of Japan until she went back to the North in the 1960s. Although she was Kim Jong Il's mistress, she was treated as the first lady in North Korea.

During her two-time visit to Japan, she stayed at a foreign-owned luxury hotel in Tokyo and shopped in Ginza, a district boasting many high-end department stores and boutiques. In 2000, she visited her hometown of Osaka but did not make contact with her old friends there. She also dropped by Kyoto, where she visited the Misora Hibari Museum in the Arashiyama district, which commemorates the late nationally-popular singer and actress, Hibari Misora (1937-1989). Ko was clad completely in brand-name clothing and was accompanied by men appearing to be bodyguards, leading Japanese police to speculate that she was a "relative of a fairly high-ranking North Korean official."

The following year, Kim Jong Nam was caught trying to enter Japan using a fake passport. Japanese authorities suspect that a boy who was accompanying him at that time was very likely his son, Kim Han Sol, and are trying to confirm whether that was the case.

Meanwhile, Chang Song Taek entered Japan twice around 1980, posing as a member of an artistic delegation and using a fake name and title. It is unclear whether his visits were related to the abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents, which repeatedly occurred around 1980.

It was already known that Kim Jong Un and Kim Jong Chol entered Japan in 1991 using counterfeit passports. The two applied for their visas at the Japanese Embassy in Austria, claiming that they were Brazilians, according to the latest revelations. A person with a Portuguese passport was reportedly accompanying them at the time.

(Mainichi Japan) January 7, 2012



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