2017-02-14

SINGAPORE: The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was found dead in Malaysia on Monday (Feb 13), Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a Seoul government source. Kim Jong Nam was the eldest son of former leader Kim Jong-il. TV Chosun, a cable television network, said that Jong Nam was poisoned at Kuala Lumpur airport by two women believed to be North Korean operatives, who were at large, citing multiple South Korean government sources. The report said the two women hailed a cab and fled immediately afterwards. In Malaysia, the police chief in charge of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Assistant Commissioner Abdul Aziz Ali, told AFP a Korean in his forties was found sick at the airport on Monday. Airport authorities rushed him to the hospital and he died on the way, the police chief said. "We do not have any other details of this Korean man. We do ...

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