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Japan Has Gathered Info on Kim Jong Il via Ex-Sushi Chef: Aussie Paper
Tokyo, Feb. 21 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese intelligence organization head in 2008 confessed the nation gained insights into North Korean leader Kim Jong Il from Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese national who had been a private chef for the Kim family, an Australian newspaper said Monday.
Citing a U.S. diplomatic report obtained by WikiLeaks, the Sydney Morning Herald said that Hideshi Mitani, the then chief of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, in October 2008 told his counterpart at the U.S. State Department, Randall Fort, that a human intelligence collection capability was a priority.
"Mr. Mitani also confessed that Japan's best insights into Mr. Kim came not from a secret source but from his Japanese former sushi chef who had published a memoir," the newspaper said, referring to Fujimoto, who was serving the Kim family mostly in the 1990s.
The report, cabled to Washington by the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, also noted Mitani's remark that while the Japanese intelligence authority believed the ailing Kim was well enough to make decisions, it was "in the dark" about how he passed them on, according an electronic version of the newspaper.
Based mainly on the report, the Australian newspaper said Japan decided to establish "a secret foreign intelligence service to spy on Chin and North Korea and gather information to prevent terrorist attacks."
It also unveiled that the decision, taken by the then Liberal Democratic Party-led government, "has been made to go very slowly with the process as the Japanese realize that they lack knowledge, experience and assets/officers."
Citing a U.S. diplomatic report obtained by WikiLeaks, the Sydney Morning Herald said that Hideshi Mitani, the then chief of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, in October 2008 told his counterpart at the U.S. State Department, Randall Fort, that a human intelligence collection capability was a priority.
"Mr. Mitani also confessed that Japan's best insights into Mr. Kim came not from a secret source but from his Japanese former sushi chef who had published a memoir," the newspaper said, referring to Fujimoto, who was serving the Kim family mostly in the 1990s.
The report, cabled to Washington by the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, also noted Mitani's remark that while the Japanese intelligence authority believed the ailing Kim was well enough to make decisions, it was "in the dark" about how he passed them on, according an electronic version of the newspaper.
Based mainly on the report, the Australian newspaper said Japan decided to establish "a secret foreign intelligence service to spy on Chin and North Korea and gather information to prevent terrorist attacks."
It also unveiled that the decision, taken by the then Liberal Democratic Party-led government, "has been made to go very slowly with the process as the Japanese realize that they lack knowledge, experience and assets/officers."
