Kim Jong-Un's Half-Brother 'Killed By North Korean Spies With Poisoned Needle'

Kim Jong-un's older half brother has been killed by 'poisoned needle-wielding' spies, according to South Korean media.

Kim Jong-nam, 45, was at an airport in Malaysia when the incident reportedly took place.

Yonhap news has claimed that Kim Jong-nam was killed on Monday morning in Kuala Lumpur. Other media outlets have quoted government sources, and reported that he died after being stabbed by a poisoned needle at the hands of two women in the city's airport.

The women have yet to be arrested as they have managed to evade the police hunt.

According to The Telegraph, Kim Jong-nam was once lined up to become the heir to his father, Kim Jong-il.

However, after he was arrested in 2001 in Tokyo after trying to enter Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport, he was exiled by his family to China.

He reportedly told police that he simply wanted to take his family to Disneyland.

He then lived in Macu until his father died in 2011, but has since apparently been in hiding as he believed Kim Jong-un saw him as a threat to the 'legitimacy of his regime'.

Malaysian police have told Reuters than an unidentified North Korean man died on the way to hospital from a Kuala Lumpur airport.

The police said the man's identity had not been verified.

Source: The Telegraph and Reuters

Topics: kim jong-un, Kim Jong Un, North Korea

Mel Ramsay

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