While Kim Jong Nam spent much of his life abroad after falling out of favor with his family, he was constantly aware of the monitoring presence of Pyongyang and obsessed by fears that he would be assassinated, South Korean officials have said. Following his death, the National Intelligence Service told South Korean lawmakers that North Korea had tried for several years to kill him and that he sent a letter to Kim Jong Un in 2012 begging for the lives of himself and his family.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 11, 2019 09:22 UTC