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Kim Jong Nam's Murder Likely Means Dangerous Times Ahead for Members of North Korea's Ruling Family
Time ^ | Mar. 7, 2017 | Charlie Campbell

Posted on 03/07/2017 6:21:27 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Kim Jong Nam's Murder Likely Means Dangerous Times Ahead for Members of North Korea's Ruling Family

Charlie Campbell / Beijing 4:55 PM

As the fallout from the assassination of Kim Jong Nam continues, more details are emerging about what sparked his murder, with possibly grave consequences for other members of North Korea’s ruling family. On Tuesday, North Korea banned Malaysian diplomats from leaving North Korea in response to the investigation into the death of Kim Jong Nam, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, who police say was poisoned with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13. The North Korean embassy has slammed the probe as “political.” A source close to the North Korean regime tells TIME that Ministry of State Security (MSS) officials met with Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia in a bid to persuade him to return home to Pyongyang with his family. This intervention was apparently spurred after officials learned that the 45-year-old had been repeatedly approached about leading a government-in-exile.

Kim Jong Nam declined those approaches but also refused to return to his homeland, perhaps owing to the fact that he is believed to have several families scattering across Asia. “Kim Jong Nam declined to go back to Pyongyang and that’s why the hit order was given,” the source tells TIME.

This version of events is supported by Kim Joo Il, a North Korean defector living in the U.K. who set up the International North Korean Association for Human Rights and Democracy. He tells TIME that he made three approaches to Kim Jong Nam about establishing an alternative government.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; kimjongnam; kimjongun; nkorea
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1 posted on 03/07/2017 6:21:27 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

P!


2 posted on 03/07/2017 6:22:41 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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Is the Sister safe or is she the next to go?


3 posted on 03/07/2017 6:27:13 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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They all need to go before they start WW3


4 posted on 03/07/2017 6:30:36 AM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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I think Kim Jong-un’s sister is safe, probably only person Kim Jong-un can trust other than himself. Same thing cannot be said about half-sisters, half-cousins, or his old aunt.
5 posted on 03/07/2017 6:34:53 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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If this chubby fool Kim ever actually ordered his military to start a real war, he would be murdered immediately by his inner circle of goons and sycophants. They better than anyone know that their privileged positions and lives would be ended by a war.


6 posted on 03/07/2017 6:35:01 AM PST by allendale
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Time for Fat Boy to “retire”


7 posted on 03/07/2017 6:35:30 AM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

In his letter to the son of Timur, Mehmed I Chelebi, the fourth sultan of the Ottomans, said: “My ancestors handled some inconveniences with their experience. Two sultans cannot live in the same country.” The execution of members of the dynasty for political reasons does not pertain only to the Ottomans. It was also practiced by the Sasanians, Romans, Byzantines and even the Muslim Andalusian states. However, the main reason for this practice in these kingdoms was to take over the throne instead of preserving the unity of the state and the livelihood of the people. On the other hand, thousands of people who died during the long-lasting wars for the right of succession in Europe should be remembered.
https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2015/08/07/the-history-of-fratricide-in-the-ottoman-empire—part-1

If the fat one is following this advice we will see many more killings.


8 posted on 03/07/2017 6:51:42 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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The “Mouse that roars”....


9 posted on 03/07/2017 7:30:47 AM PST by B212
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