Kim Jong Nam, the older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has been assassinated at Kuala Lumpur airport, Korean-language media reported late on Tuesday.
He was reportedly killed by two women using poisoned needles who fled the scene by taxi, the reports said.
Since rising to power following the death of his father in 2011, Kim Jong Un has moved ruthlessly to cement his standing as North Korea’s supreme leader. In 2013, his uncle, Jang Sung-taek, was purged from the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. North Korean state media later reported he was executed.
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