North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and his late tyrant dad used fake Brazilian passports to visit the West, The Sun reported.
The ruling family is known to have used travel documents obtained fraudulently, but these papers have never been seen or published before.
Both passports list the holders’ birthplaces as Sao Paulo, Brazil.
An unnamed senior Western security source said: “They used these Brazilian passports to attempt to obtain visas from foreign embassies. This shows the desire for travel and points to the ruling family’s attempts to build a possible escape route.”
The North Korean embassy in Brazil declined to comment and Brazil’s foreign ministry said it is investigating the photocopies. A Brazilian source said the passports were legitimate documents when they were sent out as blanks for consulates to issue.
Other senior Western European security sources confirmed that the two Brazilian passports were used to apply for visas in at least two Western countries.
They may also have been used to travel to Brazil, Japan and Hong Kong, the same sources said.
Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Kim Jong-Un visited Tokyo as a child in 2011, using a Brazilian passport issued in 1991.
Both ten-year passports carry a stamp saying “Embassy of Brazil in Prague”.
The security sources said facial recognition technology confirmed the photographs were those of Kim Jong-Un and his father.
