Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The Journal quoted the person as saying “There was a nexus” between the CIA and Kim Jong-nam. Kim Jong-nam’s role as a CIA informant is mentioned in a new book about Kim Jong-un, “The Great Successor”, by Washington Post reporter Anna Fifield that is due to be published on Tuesday. Fifield says Kim Jong-nam usually met his handlers in Singapore and Malaysia, citing a source with knowledge of the intelligence. Two women were charged with poisoning Kim Jong-nam by smearing his face with liquid VX, a banned chemical weapon, at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2019 07:50 UTC