Kim Jong-Il's eldest son in Paris: report

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

TOKYO (AFP) — A man purported to be the colourful eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has resurfaced in Paris, where he said he was visiting a dentist, Japanese television said Tuesday.

Kim Jong-Nam, who in 2001 was expelled from Japan for reportedly trying to go to Disneyland, had last been spotted living the high life in southern China's casino haven of Macau, where he has apparently stayed for a few years.

Japan's Fuji Television showed footage from Paris of a stout man in a fashionable pin-striped suit whom it identified as the 36-year-old eldest son of the North Korean strongman.

The man smiled as he left a luxurious hotel and headed by limousine to a building near the Champs Elysees, comfortably dodging questions in impeccable French.

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