North Korean leaders 'used Brazilian passports'
Kim Jong Un and his father Kim Jong Il - who died in 2011 - used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit countries in the West in the 1990s, according to five senior European security sources.The current North Korean leader was issued a passport under the name "Josef Pwag" and his father under the name "Ijong Tchoi". The passports were used to apply for visas in at least two countries.Although the ruling family is known to have used travel documents obtained under false pretences, the photocopies of the Brazilian passports have not been published before.One senior Western security source, speaking anonymously, said: "They used these Brazilian passports, which clearly show the photographs of Kim Jong Un and Kim Jong Il, to attempt to obtain visas from foreign e...