more-inAs Malaysian police continue their inquiry into the death of Kim Jong-nam, the outcast half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, there’s plenty of speculation surrounding what seems to be one of the stranger killings the world has recently seen. North Korea killed Kim Jong-nam because he planned to create an exile government around defectors, says one rumour. Kim Jong-nam had been the only member of the Kim clan who regularly talked to foreign journalists and sometimes went so far as to openly criticise the country’s hereditary power transfer. The attack on Kim “was unbelievably sloppy”, Kim Jongdae, a South Korean lawmaker, told a radio interview. While some think the attack on Kim Jong-nam was careless, others see it as ingenious.

Source: The Hindu February 18, 2017 18:56 UTC