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29. (Sort of) Off Topic: The Assassination of Kim Jong Nam


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Buckle up, babes! Janey's going to tell us about the most insane assassination you may have never heard of! Let us know if you followed this story when it happened, because Janey's never stopped thinking about it. 


Sources:

  • “Kim Jong-nam Says N. Korean Regime Won’t Last Long”, by The Chosun Daily in 2012. 
  • “Kim Jong-il’s son reappears in Singapore one year after feeling Macau” from The Shanghaiist.   
  • “Was Kim Jong Nam in Sights of His Paranoid Half-Brother?” by Yoshihiro Makino for Asahi Shimbun. 
  • Murder at the Airport: The Brazen Attack on Kim Jong-Nam, by Reuters 
  • “Assassins review— unravelling the bizarre death of Kim Jong-nam” by Adam Sweeting for The Arts Desk. 
  • How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam” by Hannah Ellis-Peterson and Benjamin Haas for The Guardian. 
  • Dr. Harini Bhat, PharmD (@tilscience) explaining VX2 

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