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Kim Jong Un’s Half-Brother Kim Jong Nam Was CIA Informant: Report

Kim Jong Nam
Kim Jong Un’s slain half-brother was reportedly an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency and met with U.S. officials a number of times. 

The Wall Street Journal reports Kim Jong Nam, who mainly lived outside North Korea, traveled to Malaysia in February 2017 to meet with his CIA contact—reportedly a “Korean-American” man who Malaysian officials suspected to be a U.S. officer. 

It was in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport that Kim Jong Nam was killed after two women smeared his face with a nerve agent. 

The U.S. and South Korea blamed his murder on North Korea, which denied having anything to do with it. 

Sources also told the Journal that Kim Jong Nam was likely a source of intelligence for China’s security services, among others. 

The CIA reportedly declined to comment, and Chinese officials did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.

VX nerve agent


A Vietnamese woman tried in the case of Kim’s death was released from a Malaysian prison and returned to her native country earlier this month.

 Doan Thi Huong, the last suspect who'd been in custody after being charged in the death of Kim Jong Nam with VX nerve agent, said at the airport that “the case has come to a complete end.”

She expressed her gratitude “to everyone who prayed for me” in a video taken by her lawyer in the plane just before it took off to Hanoi.

The 30-year-old and her co-defendant, Indonesian Siti Aisyah, were charged with colluding with four North Koreans to murder Kim Jong Nam.

The two women – who have said they thought they were taking part in a harmless prank for a TV show – smeared the nerve agent on his face at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13, 2017. 

They were arrested days later and charged with murder.


In March, the Malaysian attorney general stunningly dropped the murder charge against Aisyah, following high-level lobbying from Jakarta. 

Huong sought to be acquitted after her co-defendant was freed, but prosecutors rejected her request.

Huong pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of causing injuring last month after prosecutors dropped the murder charge against her. 

She was sentenced to 40 months in prison from the day of her arrest and was released early for good behavior.

The four North Koreans left Malaysia the day Kim was killed.

Sources: The Daily Beast, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2019


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