On 13 February 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. He had been living abroad since his exile from North Korea in 2003.

His younger paternal half-brother, Kim Jong Un, was named heir apparent in September 2010. [3] On 13 February 2017, the North Korean government assassinated Kim Jong-nam with the nerve agent VX in Malaysia after previous failed attempts to kill him.

Kim Jong Chul (Korean: 김정철; born 25 September 1981), sometimes spelled Kim Jong Chol, [1] is a son of former North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. His younger brother is current Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. His older half-brother Kim Jong-nam was assassinated in …

Feb 15, 2017 · Kim Jong Un stood to gain so little from assassinating his own half-brother that such a killing would be little more than a senseless murder by an increasingly paranoid regime, according...

Oct 23, 2017 · KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Eight months after the audacious assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother, a Malaysian court is trying to unweave a complicated web of deception, political intrigue and cold-blooded brutality — a scheme allegedly cooked up by a network o

When the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was assassinated in a crowded Malaysian airport last February, he carried in his bag the antidote to the poison that...

Dec 16, 2020 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with filmmaker Ryan White about his documentary Assassins, which explores the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother at a Malaysian...

Feb 27, 2017 · Two North Korean ministries orchestrated the plot to kill Kim Jong Nam on the orders of his half-brother, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea’s spy agency has said.

Female spies are suspected of assassinating the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un by spraying poison in his face at one of Asia’s busiest airports. Kim Jong-nam, 45, an outspoken critic of the North Korean regime and its supreme leader, died on the way to hospital after the attack at Kuala Lumpur international airport, Malaysia, on Monday ...

The murdered brother of Kim Jong-un pleaded with the North Korean leader to spare his life five years ago, it was revealed today, as police in Malaysia arrested a woman suspected of carrying out the