Half-brother of North Korean Leader Assassinated in Malaysia...See Details

 

Kim Jong -nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, has been killed at an airport in Malaysia by North Korean agents who were reportedly wielding "poison needles."

 

Yonhap News said Kim Jong-nam, who is believed to be in his 40s, was killed on Monday morning in Kuala Lumpur.

 

Quoting government sources, other media reports claim Mr Kim died after being jabbed by a poisoned needle by two women in the city's airport. The women are believed to be North Korean agents but have so far been able to evade a police hunt. 

 

Police in Malaysia told Reuters that an unidentified North Korean man had died en route to hospital from Kuala Lumpur airport on Monday.

 

Mohmad Salleh, the Malaysian CID director, told the Telegraph:  "Kim Jong Nam was feeling unwell on Monday morning while he was waiting for a flight to Macau at KLIA.

 

 

 

Kim Jong-nam was once considered the heir apparent to Kim Jong-il, but fell out of favour 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 South Korean government is yet to respond to Yonhap News' report. 

 

Source: The Telegraph UK