Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/03
By: Ku Chuan and William Yen
Taipei, Oct. 3 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that Taiwan did not
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receive any application for the nephew of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to transit though Taiwan earlier this year, as a foreign media report has claimed.
In response to questions on the reports that Kim Han-sol, his mother and sister had transited through an airport in Taipei in February, MOFA spokesman Li Hsien-chang (李憲章) said North Koreans are required to apply for visas to enter Taiwan.
MOFA had not received any visa applications from the three people mentioned in the news reports and was not aware that they had filed any such applications, Lu said.
The Wall Street Journal reported last Sunday that after the exiled brother of Kim Jong-un was killed with nerve gas at a Malaysian airport on Feb. 13, Kim Han-sol, his mother and his sister arrived in Taiwan two days later in transit to Europe.
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