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THE HALF-BROTHER of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency has reported.
The agency quoted a Seoul government source as saying Kim Jong-Nam was killed at an airport in Kuala Lumpur. The source gave no further details. Officials in Seoul were not immediately available for comment.
The 45-year-old was poisoned by two unidentified female agents using poisoned needles at the airport, according to South Korean broadcaster TV Chosun.
The report, citing what it called multiple government sources, said the two women hailed a cab and fled immediately afterwards.
In Malaysia, the police chief in charge of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Assistant Commissioner Abdul Aziz Ali, told AFP a Korean in his forties was found sick at the airport on Monday.
Airport authorities rushed him to the hospital and he died on the way, the police chief said.
“We do not have any other details of this Korean man. We do not know his identity,” Abdul said.
Kim Jong-Nam was once considered heir apparent but fell out of favour with his father Kim Jong-Il following a botched attempt in 2001 to enter Japan on a forged passport and visit Disneyland.
He has since lived in virtual exile, mainly in the Chinese territory of Macau.
Kim Jong-Un took over as North Korean leader when his father died in December 2011.
Kim Jong-Nam, known as an advocate of reform in the North, once told a Japanese newspaper that he opposed his country’s dynastic power transfers.
If confirmed, Kim’s case would be the highest-profile death under the Kim Jong-Un regime since the execution of the leader’s uncle Jang Song-Thaek in December 2013.
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Poor guy, all because he wanted to visit Disneyland.
Mickey Mouse regime anyway.
@Emmet O’Keeffe: Yep. He just wanted one day in a normal seeming world.
A lunatic with no self control and a personality disorder in charge of a nuclear arsenil? Glad there is only one county in the world with that…..
Your forgetting Pakistan, India, Iran.
*you’re
You forgot USA
Fairly sure that was the point of the joke lads
@lez ferguson: Iran doesn’t have nukes and has signed an agreement not to develop them with the UN and US.
@Noel Kelleher: no I didn’t – tongue in check…
@Noel Kelleher: … China, France, Russia, United Kingdom … and NATO nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey)
@Noel Kelleher:
Silly remark
Can you download an irony app?
@ Warthog not since 20th Jan .. remember free speech and all that …
Some families are just blessed with all the good looks!
Better to be Heron’s pig than Heron’s son, Caesar commented.
Herod*
I take your point though.
@ John Considine ; l hate predictive text
Then turn it off
Jaysus…. Kim Jong il is getting madder…assassinating his brother ?
And the rightful heir to the throne…..
THE KING OF THE NORTH!!
Kim jong dun Ho Lee fuk Poy sun pin He no luk
He was a thorn is his brothers side.
45 – he was only a jung-un
Fire in the hole
One down, one too go!
Herod’s, of course. I hate predictive text.
i wonder did the lard ass pop when they stuck a needle in him
@Niall O D: He was the black sheep of the family and I think he was gay as well?
Surly a drone could sort this
Looks like Kim has knocked off another family member. All his other relations will be legging it
@Declan Moran: I think Kim has done the family now, he is off to have sex with his new rockets?
He got the chop sticks.
Jasus, that’s like something you would see in the movie’s!
He never got to see Disneyland.
Kim Jong I1…”botched”
North Korea’s Joe Duffy
Let’s see what Kim does nxt
@The Red Devil: Dallas or is that Debbie?
I fat hobbit died in an airport, big deal
His only hope was to give her an elbow straight away and knock her off immediately. I hope Trumps attacks North Korea and kicks ass. However I dont really think it will happen.
Little Swiss Cheese Kim is busy killing off his family, who is next and I don’t mean the Head of China lol.
have your say