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North Korean leader's slain half-brother was a CIA informant - Wall Street Journal

 

FILE PHOTO: Kim Jong Nam arrives at Beijing airport in Beijing, China, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 11, 2007. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

 

The Journal cited an unnamed "person knowledgeable about the matter" for the report, and said many details of Kim Jong Nam's relationship with the CIA remained unclear.

 

Reuters could not independently confirm the story. The CIA declined to comment.

 

The Journal quoted the person as saying "There was a nexus" between the CIA and Kim Jong Nam.

 

"Several former U.S. officials said the half brother, who had lived outside of North Korea for many years and had no known power base in Pyongyang, was unlikely to be able to provide details of the secretive country's inner workings," the Journal said.

 

The former officials also said Kim Jong Nam had been almost certainly in contact with security services of other countries, particularly China's, the Journal said.

 

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.

 

The book says that security camera footage from Kim Jong Nam's last trip to Malaysia showed him in a hotel elevator with an Asian-looking man who was reported to be a U.S. intelligence agent. It said Ki's backpack contained $120,000 in cash, which could have been payment for intelligence-related activities, or earnings from his casino businesses.

 

South Korean and U.S. 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. Pyongyang has denied the allegation.

 

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. Malaysia released Doan Thi Huong, who is Vietnamese, in May, and Indonesian Siti Aisyah in March.

 

According to the Journal, the person said Kim Jong Nam had travelled to Malaysia in February 2017 to meet his CIA contact, although that may not have been the sole purpose of the trip.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have met twice, in Hanoi in February and Singapore last June, seeming to build personal goodwill but failing to agree on a deal to lift U.S. sanctions in exchange for North Korea abandoning its nuclear and missile programs.

 

(Reporting by Mark Hosenball and David Brunnstrom; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Sandra Maler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-11

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[Tug]

Maybe they were grooming him to run N Korea after little Kim gets rubbed out

[OneMoreFarang]

10 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Sure, And St: Claus have grown wings and flewn to the Caribbean. USA is really making up stories as they go, and think the rest of the world will believe them.

Which part do you think they make up?

Obviously I don't know if it's true or not. But nobody should be surprised that the USA, like many other countries, have informants.

And the possibility to get killed is part of that job description.

[Emdog]

I dunno.... what use would a half brother be if he has no power base and hasn't been in country for years? Other than to be feather in cap of some CIA recruiter. Maybe I answered my own question....

[JulesMad]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And the possibility to get killed is part of that job description

I have never worked for CIA or similar, but I highly doubt it is in the job description (at least not in the written part)

[Berkshire]

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Everything on a daily basis. They make it up as they walk. It´s one of the least thrustworthy countries in the world at the moment.

Is this comment a reflection of our lying President?  If so, I can understand.  But I'd trust the US intelligence agencies more than our POTUS.

[Dumbastheycome]

2 hours ago, JulesMad said:

I have never worked for CIA or similar, but I highly doubt it is in the job description (at least not in the written part)

I don't think there is any written part.

[Thakkar]

4 hours ago, JulesMad said:

I have never worked for CIA or similar

 

Well a CIA agent would say that, wouldn’t he? Wait...or, would he?

????

[Tug]

Now Donald said he got another(love)letter from little Kim and promptly threw the intelligence agency’s under the bus and backed Kim that friends borders on treason because n Korea has threatened us and allies with nukes