Deven Smith
Staff Writer
The half-brother of Kim Jong-un, the “President” of North Korea, was mysteriously murdered on Feb. 13. There was no punctured points on his body so it is believed that he was poisoned. Two females that fled the airport in a taxi are the leading suspects of the murder. Using many fake passports to avoid recognition he was travelling frequently to avoid detection. However he was tracke down and was murdered in Malaysia. He had lost the respect of his family when he tried to enter Japan using a Dominican Republic passport. He had little faith in Kim Jong Un saying he won’t last long because of his young age. Although he has been in exile for years he is the eldest son of their shared father so it could be possible that he would’ve been able to replace Kim Jong Un as leader of North Korea. Kim Jong Un took care of that though, it has been leaked by South Korean intelligence that Kim Jong Un did in fact order the assassination. This is scary timing since Kim Jong Un had tested a ballistic missile just two days prior to the murder.
According to CNN the murder was carried out by two assassin groups, the first group was composed of North Korean state security department member Ri Jae Nam and foreign ministry worker Ri Ji Hyon, they had recruited a Vietnamese suspect, Doan Thi Huong. The second group also consisted a state security member, O Jong Gil, and a foreign ministry member, Hong Song Hac, they had brought on board Indonesian suspect Siti Aisyah. These groups rubbed VX Nerve agent in Nam’s face killing him in twenty minutes. If given in a high dose it can cause convulsions, loss of consciousness, paralysis, and death because of respiratory failure.
