SEOUL: Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, was a CIA informant, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Citing “a person knowledgeable about the matter”, the paper said Kim Jong Nam had met with CIA operatives several times. Kim Jong Nam died after being attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13, 2017 in a Cold War-style assassination that shocked the world. Once seen as leader Kim Jong Il s natural successor, Kim Jong Nam apparently fell from grace after being deported from Japan in 2001 for trying to enter on a forged passport to visit Disneyland. The report comes amid a deadlock in talks between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang s nuclear weapons.

Source: Pakistan Today June 11, 2019 15:33 UTC