Kim Jong-nam assassinated in 2017
I'm afraid I haven't been a fan of the nepot regime ruling North Korea. "Dear Leader" as it was simply strikes me as a despot who seized control and made it a family legacy without anything remotely resembling any initial inherited title or legacy of service warranting such control. This leaves the rest of his family without anything remotely qualifying beyond strong arm tactics, intimidation of a nation, and murder.Sorry, but anyone who could in good conscience execute his uncle with an antiaircraft weapon simply for being bored and falling asleep absolutely cannot be an individual of sound or moral character.
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It is believed that he fell from favor due to perceived embarrassment of the regime in 2001 when he attempted to visit Tokyo Disneyland with forged passport credentials.
He said his loss of favour had been due to advocating reforms.
Exiled from North Korea around 2003 he became the occasional critic of the family regime such that his younger paternal half-brother, Kim Jong-un, was named heir apparent in September 2010.
His accommodations and lifestyle were quite modest after his fall from grace in the regime.
Kim Jong-nam was assassinated in Malaysia on February 13, 2017 with the nerve agent VX which is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound of thiophosphonate compounds developed for military use in chemical warfare as a spinoff of pesticide research.
He was said to be returning to Pyongyang.
The attack was allegedly on the orders of his half-brother, Kim Jong-un and those delivering the agent believed they were part of a television attack according to their accounts of the incident after arrest.
He was allegedly outed by The Wall Street Journal on June 10, 2019 as a CIA source according to US officials which is quite par for the treacherous course.