Just to add to this: in the West we have hundreds of legit royal/aristocratic familial dynasties, all colluding with each other to maintain their wealth and status in society. Not to mention the corporate dynasties.
Compare that to a singular Mount Paektu bloodline that isn’t even linear (Kim Jong Nam got fucking got for associating with the CIA) and there are more than a few relatives/members of the Mount Paektu family that are either anonymous or have left the country.
Oh god I was just reading the Wikipedia article on Kim Jong Nam. Are there any good sources on it? I refuse to believe he was assassinated in that loony toons-ass way and no one else was exposed to the VX, not even the two women who splashed it on him, especially since they “didn’t know”
Unfortunately no. But him getting assassinated would benefit DPR Korea since he was a real life caricature of what mass media presents KJU to be. Its hard to gleam a motive from any antagonistic forces who would all want a line on a man close to the paektu family (though KJN, like most northern expats, was never actually informed on the day to day operations since he spent most of his time in Macau gambling his family’s wealth away).
I’d like to believe KJU signed off on having him killed and wanted to do it in a bizarre way to be more clandestine or whatever.
It’s not that I don’t believe he was assassinated, I really wouldn’t know either way. But Wikipedia claims that VX (which is fatal with skin exposure in the tens of milligrams range!) was used, split into two components, one of which was soaked into a handkerchief that one assassin held over his head and the other was “splashed” on him by a second assassin. Neither woman was convicted of murder and it was accepted by the courts that they thought it was a “prank”. He was supposedly immediately supplied with first aid including having a “resuscitation device” strapped to his face (y’know, where the VX supposedly was?)
Yet in all of this apparently no one other than Kim was exposed. Not the woman holding a handkerchief soaked in compound A while compound B was splashed on it. Not any of the medics treating him. No bystanders. In a busy airport. Absolutely unbelievable.
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Just to add to this: in the West we have hundreds of legit royal/aristocratic familial dynasties, all colluding with each other to maintain their wealth and status in society. Not to mention the corporate dynasties.
Compare that to a singular Mount Paektu bloodline that isn’t even linear (Kim Jong Nam got fucking got for associating with the CIA) and there are more than a few relatives/members of the Mount Paektu family that are either anonymous or have left the country.
Oh god I was just reading the Wikipedia article on Kim Jong Nam. Are there any good sources on it? I refuse to believe he was assassinated in that loony toons-ass way and no one else was exposed to the VX, not even the two women who splashed it on him, especially since they “didn’t know”
Unfortunately no. But him getting assassinated would benefit DPR Korea since he was a real life caricature of what mass media presents KJU to be. Its hard to gleam a motive from any antagonistic forces who would all want a line on a man close to the paektu family (though KJN, like most northern expats, was never actually informed on the day to day operations since he spent most of his time in Macau gambling his family’s wealth away).
I’d like to believe KJU signed off on having him killed and wanted to do it in a bizarre way to be more clandestine or whatever.
It’s not that I don’t believe he was assassinated, I really wouldn’t know either way. But Wikipedia claims that VX (which is fatal with skin exposure in the tens of milligrams range!) was used, split into two components, one of which was soaked into a handkerchief that one assassin held over his head and the other was “splashed” on him by a second assassin. Neither woman was convicted of murder and it was accepted by the courts that they thought it was a “prank”. He was supposedly immediately supplied with first aid including having a “resuscitation device” strapped to his face (y’know, where the VX supposedly was?)
Yet in all of this apparently no one other than Kim was exposed. Not the woman holding a handkerchief soaked in compound A while compound B was splashed on it. Not any of the medics treating him. No bystanders. In a busy airport. Absolutely unbelievable.