It is believed that Kim Jong-un directed the murder of his half-brother
The oldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Nam, was murdered in 2017 at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport. After being exposed to the nerve agent VX, he passed away. Kim Jong Nam passed very shortly after falling unwell at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia before a journey to Macau. In a news conference on Wednesday, Lee Cheol Woo, the head of South Korea's National Assembly Intelligence Committee, said that Kim had been poisoned and that the suspects were "presumed to be two Asian girls." How he acquired that knowledge and how Kim was poisoned are also unknown. The Unification Ministry of South Korea informed CNN that they were collaborating with Malaysian officials to get further data. About Kim's murder, many unanswered issues still exist. In the absence of the findings of a postmortem investigation, police have labeled the occurrence a "sudden death." According to South Korean media, Kim was in his 40s.
Although he lost popularity, Kim Jong-Nam was presumably seen as his father's successor presumptive. He embarrassed himself by trying to enter Japan with his family while presenting a fake Dominican passport and claiming to be going to Tokyo Disneyland. He periodically challenged the government after leaving North Korea in 2003 and going into exile.
The passing of the older Kim sibling occurs at a time when Kim Jong Un is purging the senior leadership in his immediate vicinity. Earlier this month, he fired the minister of state security, one of his top lieutenants. A South Korean research tank's assessment from the end of December stated that Kim has authorized the death of 340 individuals since becoming an office. Two days after Pyongyang's first ballistic missile test of 2017 came to light, Kim Jong Nam's death was announced. Kim Jong Un reportedly oversaw the successful launch of North Korea's brand-new Pukguksong-2 nuclear-capable missile, according to official media. The launch, according to two US officials, was an intermediate-range missile's first land-based test has already been launched from a submarine.
