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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...

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...

LONDON/MOSCOW/BEIJING, May 23 (Yonhap) — Kim Jong-chol attended an Eric Clapton concert in London for the second time this week, but where the brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un headed Saturday remained unknown. He had been scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Saturday from Moscow on his way to Pyongyang, a source with knowledge of the stopover said. However, the name of Jong-chol was not on the registry of the flight from London to Moscow, according to the source. He also wasn’t seen at the Beijing airport Saturday.