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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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.