Rumors abound as to whether Kim Jong-nam had ties to either China or the CIA.
It’s one of the twenty-first-century’s most bizarre international incidents: On February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-Nam, the exiled older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was assassinated in the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The murder was carried out with the rare and deadly nerve agent VX, and it was all caught on video with the perpetrators apparently a pair of young women.
Even stranger than that? The women swore they had no idea they were participated in an assassination, and actually thought that they were part of a YouTube prank show. They were, almost certainly, patsies for a group of North Korean conspirators who were acting on Kim Jong-un’s orders.
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