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TIL that the rightful heir to the North Korean ruling dynasty, Kim Jong-nam, has been living in exile in China since 2001 after traveling to Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which means “fat bear” in Mandarin, in an attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland

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