The perfect crime? Perth Festival eyes open to North Korean political assassination doco
Advertisement How do you start a story about the public political assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Unâs half-brother by two women at a Malaysian airport in 2017? Kim Jong-Nam, the oldest successor to Kim Jong Il, was planning to check in at Kuala Lumpur Airport for a flight to Macau, where he and his young family lived in exile after his younger half-brother assumed control of North Korea, when a toxic nerve agent was applied to his eyes. He was dead in an hour. Clearly the first desire is to ask: who were these women? Newsreels at the time suggested they could have been fem...