[N. Korea]Kim Jong Nam 'met US agent' before his death in Malaysia

Sky News ^ | 30 January 2018 | Sharon Marris

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Kim Jong Nam 'met US agent' before his death in Malaysia

Two women are on trial accused of using VX nerve agent to kill the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un

By Sharon Marris, News Reporter

Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, met a Korean-American man on a tourist island before he was assassinated, a court has been told.

Mr Kim met the man at a hotel in Langkawi on 9 February last year, according to a witness.

Four days later, Mr Kim was dead.

Two women - Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong - are on trial accused of rubbing VX nerve agent on Mr Kim's face at Kuala Lumpur's international airport.

During Monday's hearing, senior investigating police officer Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz said that Mr Kim flew from Macau to Kuala Lumpur on 6 February and travelled to the northern island of Langkawi two days later.

Mr Kim then met with a Korean American, he said.

The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, reporting on the meeting between Mr Kim and the American, said that Mr Kim had met a US intelligence agent in Langkawi.

Siti Aisyah is escorted by police after her appearance at the chemistry lab

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[gaijin]

Is NK a Deep State asset...?

"Kimmy, baby, yeah..! Hey, Ballet Troop, yeah, those Pyomyang nights were good times, bro..! SHE wa patriotic, my man, yeah..!!!! Say, Kim, here, change of gears, here a little, this is serious: How many tankers of heating oil to, say conceptually, send panicked Hawaiians screaming into their cellars, huh...?"

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I kept hearing reports about allegations that China and U.S. offered huge sum of money in return for dismantling of N. Korean nukes. China's offer was a kind of multi-year economic aid starting with large initial offering. Kim Jong-un did not take it, as it says. Not sure if this is indeed true or not, but it is certainly one of highly likely scenarios.

[gaijin]

I heard the same thing recently and I heard similar things I think were misguidedly acted on (at least partly) during the Carter Administration.

[AdmSmith]

Rumint is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Song-thaek was working with the Chinese and info about it was disclosed by a country starting with R. That is why R is closer to KN than China, and why this happened: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201708250037.html

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It is more or less a common knowledge that Jang was in good terms with China.

[AdmSmith]

True, but the RUMINT is the second part.