North Korean leader’s slain half-brother was a CIA informant: report 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy ReutersKim 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. South Korean and US officials have said the North Korean authorities had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who had been critical of his family’s dynastic rule. 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: Manila Bulletin June 11, 2019 01:18 UTC