SEOUL/KUALA LUMPUR –
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s unfamiliar half-brother was killed in Malaysia, a source of Korean government told Reuters on Tuesday. Kim Jong-un is the half-brother of the DPRK leader, who is said to be mostly outside his country.
Malaysian police told Reuters on Tuesday that an unidentified North Korean descendant from Kuala Lumpur airport to hospital on Monday.
Sheridan District police chief Abdul Aziz Ali said that the identity of this person has not been confirmed.
An employee of the emergency ward in Putrajaya Hospital said the late Koreans were born in 1970, surnamed Kim.
South Korea’s cable television network Chosun said Kim was poisoned by two women who were considered North Korean manipulators at Kuala Lumpur airport, most of them from a number of government sources from South Korea.
The source of the Korean government talks with Reuters did not provide further details immediately. The South Korean Foreign Ministry says it can not confirm the report, and its intelligence agencies can not be commented immediately.
In 2001, Kim Jong-nam took a fake passport at an airport in Japan, saying he wanted to go to Tokyo Disneyland.
