Two women stabbed Kim Jong Nam, Kim of North Korea’s estranged brother, with two poisoned needles at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport. Selangor State Criminal Investigations Department Chief Fadzil Ahmat and another police source told CNN. He was traveling under a passport with the name “Kim Choi”, the alias used by Kim Jong Nam.
Jong-nam was scheduled to take a flight to Macau from Malaysia on Monday morning, but is said to have died enroute to the hospital, Euronews reported. The two suspected assassins fled.
He had been in exile after the assassination of his uncle, General Jang Song-thaek, in 2013 and traveled under assumed names.
“He spoke out against his father’s ‘military first’ policy,” Gomi who wrote the book “My Father, Kim Jong Il, and Me.” told CNN in 2012. “He wants North Korea to embrace economic reform and open its doors.”
“Kim Jong-nam was once considered the heir apparent to Kim Jong-il, but fell out of favor in 2001 after being arrested at Tokyo’s Narita Airport after trying to enter Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport. He told police that he had wanted to visit Disneyland with his family.Exiled by his father, he lived in Macau until Kim Jong-il died in late 2011. He subsequently went into hiding, apparently out of fear that his half-brother saw him as a threat to the legitimacy of his own regime,” the Telegraph reported.
If Kim was behind the assassination as expected, this would be just one more offing of those he decided to eliminate. Some sources including the South Korea Institute for National Security, claim that he has purged over 340 who he believed were rivals or those he disfavored.
Police in Malaysia confirm Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has died in Kuala Lumpur.
Jong-nam was scheduled to take a flight to Macau from Malaysia on Monday morning, but is said to have died enroute to the hospital. The exact cause of his death has not been confirmed by Malaysian authorities and Jong-nam’s body will be undergoing an autopsy.
VIDEO STAR ONLINE Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong un, has been killed in Malaysia, a South Korean government source told Reuters on Tuesday. It was reported that two women, believed to be North Korean operatives, still at large, poisoned Kim at KLIA on Monday.