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N. Korean leader's half-brother killed in Malaysia: source (Kim Jong-nam)
Yonhap News ^
| 2017/02/14
Posted on 02/14/2017 4:15:13 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korean leader's half-brother killed in Malaysia: source
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother has been killed in Malaysia, a government source said Tuesday.
Kim Jong-nam was assassinated on Monday in Malaysia, the source said without revealing details.
Cable TV broadcaster TV Chosun reported that Kim was killed at an airport in Malaysia after being attacked by two unidentified female agents with "poisoned needles." The suspects fled the scene and Malaysian police suspected North Korea was behind the killing.
If confirmed, Kim's case would mark the most high-profile death under the Kim Jong-un regime since the execution of Jang Song-thaek in December 2013, the once-powerful uncle of the current leader.
Kim Jong-nam is the eldest son of late former leader Kim Jong-il and is living in a foreign country without holding any official title. He was born from his father's nonmarital relationship with Sung Hae-rim, a South Korean-born actress who died in Moscow.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; kimjongnam; kimjongun; kimjongunbrother; nkorea
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:15:44 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Given the usual way of offing NK officials, that was positively humane
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:18:01 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Kim Jong-un did it..
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:19:23 AM PST
by
Neidermeyer
(Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-un has sure been a busy guy.....
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:21:17 AM PST
by
Enchante
(Hoping the Clintonistas are gone from our public life forever!!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Female assassins
Poison
Very DPRK
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:24:24 AM PST
by
Strac6
("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
To: Neidermeyer
So now who is the next heir to the North Korean throne? I wouldn’t want to be that person.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:24:51 AM PST
by
RadiationRomeo
(Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
To: TigerLikesRooster
We get lots of pictures from the NORKs of Kim pointing at things. We we get one of him in the lab pointing at the needles used to off his half-brother?
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:25:37 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(1 Tim 2:1-3)
To: Strac6
No yelling “Allah Akbar?”
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:30:28 AM PST
by
Bogie
To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-nam : his eldest son
Kim Jong-nam : his third son and current NK leader
A Family Photo of Kim Jong-il
A kid on the right at the front row is young Kim Jong-nam.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:31:42 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
(Correction) Kim Jong-nam Jong-un : his third son and current NK leader
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:34:47 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:40:37 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-nam is known to be born on May 10, 1971.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:46:07 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
In 2001, Kim Jong Nam was caught at an airport in Japan traveling on a fake passport, saying he had wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland.I bet he really wanted to go too.
Song Hye Rim, the deceased's mother
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:52:29 AM PST
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Love the high-heeled pumps! Seriously, I’m surprised that photo was released without first retouching the lifts.
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:53:38 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
To: Strac6
The problem is they were able to get access. Malaysia has a North Korean embassy.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:56:50 AM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Socialism turns into Communism.
And for some reason Communism leads into the establishment of defacto aristicratic royal families.
And aristocratic royality is why we had our revolution.
It’s kind of a worm orobus thing.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:58:44 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: af_vet_1981
The victim was supposedly more open to developing N. Korea along Chinese lines —ie, more capitalism, less isolation.
China apparently favored him for the succession instead of the current NK leader.
There may or may not have been a coup in the works, which
had him waiting in the wings; but that is all speculation.
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