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Kim Jong-nam (Korean: 김정남, Korean: [kim.dzɔŋ.nam]; [a] 10 May 1971 - 13 February 2017) was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir apparent to his father. [1]
On 13 February 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of the dictator of North Korea Kim Jong Un, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. He had been living abroad since his exile from North Korea in 2003.
Kim Jong-Nam was the eldest son of Kim Jong Il, ruler of North Korea, but he fell out of favour and went into exile. He was killed by two women who poisoned him in an airport in Malaysia in 2017.
- Pat Bauer
Dec 16, 2020 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with filmmaker Ryan White about his documentary Assassins, which explores the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother at a Malaysian airport.
Jul 26, 2017 · Police say Kim Jong Nam died in an ambulance on February 13, after being poisoned by VX nerve agent, a substance so deadly the United Nations classifies it as a weapon of mass destruction.
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- Joshua Berlinger
Woman Convicted in Kim Jong-nam’s Killing Is Freed in Malaysia. The Vietnamese woman’s release brings an end to the legal case in the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half brother ...
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Feb 14, 2017 · Kim Jong-nam was the eldest son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the elder half-brother of current leader Kim Jong-un. Jong-nam was born in May 1971 in Pyongyang.