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North Korean Leader's Slain Half-Brother Was a CIA Informant

• https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz

Assassinated in February 2017 at a Malaysian airport, Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong Nam has been revealed in new reports to have been a CIA informant, and had flown to the airport to meet with his CIA contact. 

Once considered the heir apparent for Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Nam fell out of favor decades ago, with controversies centered around him trying to use a fake passport to sneak into Japan and visit Tokyo Disneyland. He had been living mostly in China since then.

While he was definitely a CIA asset, it was believed he had ties to several other countries' spy agencies, including China. China never confirmed this, nor as of yet has anyone else. 

How useful of an informant he would have been is less clear, however, as he was many years removed from being in North Korea, ad no noteworthy power base there, and was considered unlikely to have much information on the country's inner workings.


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