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supporter at patreon.com/crashcourse the quala loor international airport in the capital of Malaysia has been likened
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to a dizzying maze built on top of what was once agricultural land it sprs across 100
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square km and comprises multiple terminals buildings and stories from above it resembles a giant
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letter xx and was designed to reference Islamic geometry there are two main terminals
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both of which are divided into further terminals inside they're sleek and modern with high ceilings and wide glass
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windows every year tens of millions of passengers from all over the world arrive at the airport and bustle through
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its Halls to check into flights drop off their baggage and shop until the time comes to board their
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plane at 9:00 a.m. on Monday February 133 2017 25-year-old City ASA was one of many
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individuals standing in the busy departures Hall on level three of the airport second
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terminal known as kli A2 this terminal was constructed to accommodate various lowcost carriers that operate throughout
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the Asia region but City wasn't there to board a flight instead the young woman was there
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as part of a role she'd been given as the star of a real real it prank show that was uploaded to
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YouTube and she was about to embark on her most thrilling Mission yet [Music] City ASA had relocated to Malaysia from
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her home country of Indonesia after the breakdown of her marriage she and her ex
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had a 7-year-old son named R now a single mother City desperately needed to earn a living so she could provide for
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him she left Rio with her parents-in-law and traveled to quala loo where she began working as a masseuse at the
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sprawling Lakeside Flamingo Hotel the job only paid about 7 Australian dollars per
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customer at night she undertook sex work regularly going to a nightclub called The Beach Club Cafe to meet
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clients at the beginning of January 2017 City met a taxi driver at the beach club Cafe who said he might know of an
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opportunity for her he had a Japanese client named James who was the producer of a popular show that streamed on
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YouTube James needed young women to appear on his online series with her wide eyes pretty
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features and Youthful face city was exactly what he was looking for the driver put City in touch with
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the James the very next day she headed to an upscale shopping mall to meet him in person
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James was young and good-looking but seemed a little shy he explained that he was behind a
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hidden camera prank show that had a huge audience in Japan he needed young women
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who could carry out practical jokes on unsuspecting bystanders the pay was impressive James
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was offering the equivalent of 145 Australian dollars per job the pranks were simple and
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straightforward all City had to do was approach men at random smear their faces with baby oil quickly apologize and walk
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away before they even registered what had happened there wouldn't be any awkward
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confrontation afterwards and she'd never have to see the person again City thought the premise sounded
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absurd what was so funny about rubbing oil on a stranger's face but James assured her Japanese audience is loved
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it though city was nervous that someone she pranked might get angry or violent the money was too good to refuse she
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agreed to give it a go right then and there James took out a small bottle he poured baby oil on
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City's hands before she nervously approached her first victim James watched from a distance
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filming the moment on his iPhone City's heart raced as she walked right up to an oblivious
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stranger she raised her hands smeared the oil across his face and walked away when she faced no repercussions
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City felt a huge surge of relief she returned to James who praised her work with growing confidence City approached
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two more victims both of these attempts went as smoothly as the first James was impressed he
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congratulated City on her efforts telling her she'd done a great job and he'd be happy to hire her again if she
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was keing she was in just 15 minutes she'd made 20 times the amount she was paid for each client at her regular
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job over the next few weeks City met up with the James at various shopping malls
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malls they established a routine James would apply baby oil or lotion to City's hands then she would approach men from
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behind and rub their faces while James filmed her James also had City play pranks at
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quala lumo International Airport its busy terminal swarmed with people providing an abundance of potential
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victims the work was easy and over time James increased her pay City couldn't believe her luck she
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gushed to her friends about how she'd landed on her feet after struggling for so
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long moreover she found herself increasingly attracted to James Charmed by his handsome face and shy
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personality he couldn't speak Indonesian and she couldn't understand Japanese but
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the pair communicated to one another by using Google translate on their smartphones
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James told her he might be able to take her to the United States one day thrilled City began daydreaming about
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the promising future unfurling before her but before traveling to America with the James City was referred to another
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producer named Mr Chang he flew City out to panom pen in Cambodia to carry out more
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pranks Mr Chang was Stern and serious which unsettled City despite this she performed well Mr
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Chang was so impressed that he gifted City a $200 bonus in fact on Saturday February 12 he told her that the team
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was so delighted with her work that they decided to task her with a very important job next
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time one that could make her world famous happy and flush with cash City celebrated her 25th birthday on Sunday
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February 12 by throwing a party at a restaurant she had already informed her friends of her good
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news as they filmed a short clip of their celebrations on her phone one of them cried out city is going to be a
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celebrity early the following morning City met Mr Chang at one of quala lumor Airport's cafes for her next job upon
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seeing her Mr Chang began explaining what he had in mind for that day's special project up until now every one of the
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pranks City carried out had followed the same formula she had approached a man at
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random from behind rubbed a lotion or oil on his face then apologized and walked
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away this time Mr Chang wared wanted something a little different for starters he needed City to
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Target a particular man who was going to be at the airport this individual was a high
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ranking boss at his company renowned for being rude and arrogant the humiliating prank would be
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exactly what was needed to take him down a peg or two but his volatile personality meant he might lash out at
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city for that reason she needed to be particularly careful and get away as quickly as possible after she was
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done City had also committed every previous prank by herself this time she wouldn't be working
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solo another young woman employed by the show would also be participating and would approach the target from another
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angle the goal was for the two to reach him at almost exactly the same time then
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flee as swiftly as possible city was ready Mr Chang pulled out a small travel-sized bottle he
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poured some sticky greasy fluid on her hands then he steered her towards the bustling departures lounge and pointed
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out the man she was to prank he was standing at one of the many self-check-in chaos tapping away at the
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screen to obtain the boarding pass for his flight the man was large barding and middle-aged with an East Asian
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appearance he was dressed in a pale gray expensive looking Blazer and light jeans a dark colored backpack was slung
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over his right shoulder City's heart beat quickly as she nervously made her way through the
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crowds towards the man he looked like a wealthy and important person what if he called the
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police but though she was scared City kept going determined to complete the job she Drew
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closer when she was no more than two steps away from the man she saw another young woman cut in front of her and
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cover the Man's eyes with her hands City joined her and quickly wiped her own sticky lotion smeared Hands
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Across the the man's face he looked irritated and upset which did nothing to calm City's
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nerves within a few seconds the prank was over the other woman was striding away City followed suit heading in
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another direction towards a bathroom so she could wash the remainder of the lotion off her
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hands relieved that the particularly tricky job was done with City decided to grab a a bite to wait then browse some
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of the airport shops before heading home 3 days later on the morning of Thursday February 16 city was at home
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when she heard a knock on the door it was the police they immediately demanded to know
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where she'd been on Monday morning asking where were you on the 13th were you at the
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airport saying yes City explained she'd been filming a video the officers demanded to know why
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she hadn't asked permission to do so then informed her they would be taking her to the police
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station believing they were undertaking random checks on International workers City agreed to go with them it wasn't
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until they arrived at their destination that the police off officers informed her she wasn't under investigation for a
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Visa violation city was being charged with murder 3 days earlier 45-year-old Kim
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cha arrived at quala lumor International Airport shortly before 9 in the morning he made his way to the departure
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Hall on level three of its second terminal he had a seat booked on a 10:50 a.m. flight ched by Air Asia a lowcost
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airline headquartered in Malaysia CH was traveling to maau the territory on China's South Coast where
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he lived he was an avid traveler who often documented his adventures on his Facebook
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profile he approached the departure board and paused for a moment to stare up at it checking on the status of his
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flight then CH headed to towards a cluster of tiny self-check-in kiosks his backpack slung over his right
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shoulder as he stood entering his details on the screen he was suddenly accosted by two young women they grabbed
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him and spread a strange sticky substance across his face by the time he realized what had
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happened they disappeared dozens of other people were around using the chaos or pushing troles
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full of luggage towards security none seemed to have noticed the strange [Music]
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attack CH was annoyed but his irritation quickly transformed into Terror his eyes began to burn pain
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seared his face and he suddenly felt nauseatingly dizzy he realized that the substance the
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women rubbed on him must have been toxic he raced towards an information desk to explain what had happened
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gesturing to his face with his hands an airport employee took Char to a cluster of police
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officers two of them hastily escorted him to the airport's Medical Clinic Charles's fate began to drag and
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Shuffle as he walked sweat dripped from his forehead and his complexion grew flushed soon his hand ey coordination
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started to fail when he arrived at the clinic nurses and the airport physician Dr Nick
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immediately noticed his hands were grasping at his head Dr Nick asked what had happened but
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by this stage CH was unable to speak a check of his vitals revealed his blood pressure had soar and his pulse
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was racing his eyes rolled back in his head and he Furious ious ly clenched his jaw
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he also defecated himself Dr Nick gave chel adrenaline and 1 mgram of atropine vomit and blood had to be
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suctioned from his mouth before he could be intubated CH was transferred into an
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ambulance but soon fell unconscious his blood pressure fell to 70 over 40 and his pulse dramatically
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dropped then ceased altogether he died on route to hospital just 2 hours after being touched by the
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two unknown women an autopsy revealed that a number of Char's major organs including his
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brain liver lungs and spleen bore traces of poison a toxicology report subsequently
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found traces of a nerve agent called VX on Charles's face which had most likely been absorbed via his
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eyes with a name derived from the title venomous Agent X VX is an oily yellow-colored liquid and the most toxic
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known nerve agent to date it was developed for chemical warfare in the 1950s and later
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classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations when inhaled or absorbed via an
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individual's skin VX disrupts muscle function It ultimately causes an excruciatingly painful death by
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asphixiation as little as 10 mg is enough to kill someone chel had received such a high
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dose of VX that his heart and lungs were affected almost immediately after the assault the brutal death death prompted
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an inevitable question why had someone wanted to poison and murder a man who appeared to
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be just an ordinary traveler authorities went through ch's belongings inside his backpack were
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travel documents confirming his name and date of birth CH had been born in the North
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Korean capital of pongyang on June 10 1970 also discovered in the backpack was $100,000 in cash and an antidote for
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poison which he had apparently forgotten he had on him but Malaysian authorities already
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knew that the name Kim cha was a pseudonym the truth was the man who had been publicly murdered in broad daylight
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at quala loor International Airport was none other than the older half brother of North Korea's authoritarian leader
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Kim Jong-un the isolationist communist nation of North Korea is notorious for its brutal regime and for having one of
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the worst human rights records in the world since its founding in 1948 Three successive generations of the
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Kim family Dynasty have ruled over the East Asian country adopting the title of supreme
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leader the the first was Kim ILS he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong who ruled from 1994 until his death in
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2011 decades before he was elevated to supreme leader Kim Jong ill became enamored with a popular North Korean
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film star by the name of sim although she was already married to a novelist with whom she had one
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daughter Kim Jong Il forced her to divorce her husband and become his concubine 3 years later on May 10 1971
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Sim gave birth to Kim Jong 's first child a boy named Kim Jong n his existence was initially kept
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secret but his father pampered and doted on him telling Jong n he would one day lead his
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country eventually Sim fell out a favor with Kim Jong-il and he had her exiled to
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Russia Jong Nam was predominantly raised by his aunt and attended boarding school
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in Moscow then Switzerland his father began a relationship with a dancer with whom he
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had two more sons in the early 1980s one of these Kim Jong-un later usurped a Jong n as their father's
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leader One South Korean politician described The Killing as a naked example of Kim jong-un's reign of
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terror North Korea angrily refuted the claim insisting the victim was a citizen by the name of Kim cha who had simply
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died of natural causes they accused South Korea of convincing Malaysia to help them besmer
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the country's reputation the North Korean ambassador to Malaysia protested against an autopsy
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being conducted on the victim's body but was ignored in order to confirm the identification Malaysian officials
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obtained a DNA sample from Kim Jong n's 22-year-old son for comparison it was a perfect
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match those familiar with North Korean politics knew that Kim Jong n had l long been at odds with the rest of his
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family as a teenager he'd borne witness to a number of public executions friends said he struggled
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with the brutality and he left North Korea for a time to live in China but the final straw came in 2001
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when the now 30-year-old Jong n attempted to enter Japan using a false passport from the Dominican
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Republic he claimed that he'd wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland the incident enraged the Kim
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family who felt he disgraced and humiliated them on the international stage and 2 years later he was exiled
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from North Korea friends who knew Jong Nam have said he was critical of his father's
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regime in particular its extreme militarization though he became estranged from his family Jong Nam
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continued to make money for them via an international business Network some of these funds were also
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used to support his Playboy lifestyle he based himself in the Chinese territory of Macau but
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frequently traveled to Malaysia Singapore shanghi and Europe he took happy snaps of his
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adventures and shared them on a Facebook profile he operated under the pseudonym
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Kim cha the majority of his posts were public making them inv visible to anyone who cared to view his
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page in 2011 his father died Jong n's younger brother Kim Jong-un assumed the role of North Korea's great successor
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even though he was still in his 20s Jong Nam outwardly accepted his brother's rise to power however in a
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series of emails he sent to Japanese journalist yoi goury he declared Kim Jong-un was too inexperienced to lead
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and the country was in dire need of reforms when Yoji goury published these emails Kim Jong-un became
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enraged Kim Jong-un is an extremely paranoid leader after coming to power he ordered the executions of more than 140
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military officials and politicians whom he considered a threat they were often killed violently
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with machine guns or flamethrowers Kim Jong-un had also issued a standing order to eliminate any
00:31:10
members of his family who might pose a challenge to his rule he interpreted Kim Jong n's words
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as a direct threat as well as an insult in 2011 there were reports that North Korean assassins had attempted to
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shoot Jong n in maau but details regarding this botched attack are vague the following year South Korea
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imprisoned a North Korean Spy Who admitted to having tried to orchestrate a hit and run accident against the Jong
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n while he was in China these attempts on his life caused the Jong n to fall silent in 2012 he panned a letter to his
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brother begging for his life and assuring him that he had no desire to overthrow him it read in
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part please withdraw the order to punish me and my family we have nowhere to hide
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the only way to escape is to choose suicide despite his play Kim jong-un's paranoia regarding his older brother
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persisted Jong n knew his life was in danger and shared his fears with a friend 6 months before his
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death he hoped to relocate to Europe where he would be harder to reach and more protected the Wall Street Journal has
00:32:41
reported that he became a CIA source and met with an agent in Malaysia mere days
00:32:47
before he was killed details of any information he might have provided are unknown although aligning with the West
00:32:57
would have made Jong n Bill safer it also would have made him a greater threat to his brother who feared being
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overthrown by Foreign adversaries the nerve agent VX was banned by an international chemical
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weapons convention in 1993 but North Korea never ratified the convention experts believe that the
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regime holds a stash of the deadly nerve agent which they can draw upon to use against their enemies
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the poisoning of Kim Jong n LED investigators to believe that his younger brother had finally succeeded in
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disposing of him in the most public and audacious way [Music] possible when City Aisha realized that
00:33:49
she was being charged with murder she was shocked and distraught she claimed to have no idea
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who Kim Jong n was or that she' done anything other than play a harmless prank although she did recall that she
00:34:04
had gotten sick after leaving the airport she' caught a taxi home and had vomited in the
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cab investigators suspected this was due to traces of VX on her skin the fact that she'd immediately washed her hands
00:34:22
after assaulting Jong Nam had undoubtedly prevented anything worse from happening
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police had identified City from CCTV footage that captured the entire attack cameras had filmed Kim Jong n as
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he ambled through the airport and made his way to the check-in chaos they also caught the moment that
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two young women flanked him from either side grabbed his face and rubbed their hands over it both perpetrators strolled
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away at an easy Pace each heading to to a separate bathroom closeup footage of the second
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woman revealed that she had dark shoulder length hair with a fringe and was wearing a white long sleeved top
00:35:10
with the acronym LOL printed on it in bold black letters police managed to identify her
00:35:18
as a 28-year-old Vietnamese woman named dwan T Hong and arrested her the day before they tracked down City
00:35:29
in late December 2016 Hong had been living in heroi when she heard about an interesting sounding
00:35:37
job a friend of hers who ran a restaurant had met a man in his early 30s named Lee who was Scouting For
00:35:45
actresses Lee had asked if she knew anyone and Hong's friend immediately thought of
00:35:52
her Wong had always loved acting and dreamed of becoming famous famous she'd appeared on the television talent show
00:36:01
Vietnam Idol as well as some Vietnamese prank shows and had worked as a model she met up with Lee and he
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explained he was making undercover prank videos that took place at airport all she had to do was pour liquid on
00:36:17
strangers as a joke then walk away Wong had happily accepted Malaysian police were dubious
00:36:28
about the women's claims that they'd been duped they suspected the two were trained assassins who knew exactly what
00:36:36
they were doing and now the hunt was on for the North Korean operatives who helped them orchestrate the
00:36:44
attack the cas's lead investigator spoke with Malaysian intelligence officials and was given the names of five North
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Korean Nationals the youngest of whom was a 30-year-old named r u checking on City's phone they found a
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video she had filmed outside a shopping mall some weeks earlier she was with the James and he
00:37:08
was talking her through a prank she had to complete she scanned her phone across
00:37:13
her surroundings filming tall palm trees and skyscrapers before focusing on James when he realized he was being
00:37:22
filmed he raised a hand to the camera lens and snapped turn off but she had still managed to get a clear shot of his
00:37:31
face investigators were certain James was really r u the other four operatives included
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34-year-old Hong song Hack who had posed as Mr Chang 33-year-old RI Juan who had
00:37:49
called himself Lee and worked with Vietnamese suspect Dante Hong and two men in their 50s
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CCTV footage from quala lumor airport proved that these four men were present at the time of the
00:38:06
murder one seemed to be overseeing the operation and stood at a short distance behind Kim Jong n as he studied an
00:38:15
arrivals and departures board another casually strolled past the airport's Medical Clinic pulling a small
00:38:22
suitcase alongside him just as Jong n was ushered inside for Trea by the time they had been identified all
00:38:32
of the men had successfully escaped either by flying out of the country on the day of the murder or Sheltering at
00:38:39
the North Korean Embassy where Malaysian authorities couldn't reach them that left City ASA and Dante Hong
00:38:51
as the only suspects to face criminal charges both women were ordered to St stand trial for murder if convicted they
00:39:01
would face a mandatory death penalty the trial began in October 2017 in August of the following year the
00:39:11
judge ruled that there was enough evidence for City and Hong to answer for the crime he was dubious of the defenses
00:39:20
argument that both women were naive porns who believed that they were part of a reality prank show he pointed out
00:39:28
there had never been a camera crew and their supposed pranks never involved explaining the joke to their victims
00:39:35
something commonly seen on such programs the judge also found their behavior suspicious such as the way both
00:39:44
immediately went to separate bathrooms to clean the remnants of VX from their hands he ultimately described the murder
00:39:53
as a well-planned conspiracy between the two women and the Korean men still at large while City began sobbing upon
00:40:04
hearing the ruling Hong remained stoic and straight-faced they would have to wait up to another 6 months before they
00:40:12
would be able to take the stand in their defense city was terrified of being found guilty which would certainly
00:40:22
result in her execution as she waited in prison her physical and mental health deteriorated she struggled to wait and
00:40:31
wept constantly her greatest fear was that she would never see her son Rio again then in March
00:40:42
2019 there was a shock announcement the murder charge against her was being dropped the unexpected decision was made
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after the Indonesian government made a plea for City's release to Malaysia's Attorney General
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no reason for the release was given by the Malaysian government crowds gathered to celebrate
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the decision in the rural town where city grew up within days she was flown back to
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Indonesia upon seeing Rio city was stunned to see how tall he'd grown in the two years they'd been
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apart the two embraced each other fiercely now the sole individual facing charges the W T Hong grew
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destroyed for 3 days after city was freed she couldn't sleep or eat the Vietnamese government began
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petitioning for her release as well arguing that it was unjust to free one of the women and not the
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other on April 1 2019 the murder charge against Hong was dropped a deal was struck in in which
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she pleaded guilty to voluntary causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means and was released 1 month
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later the individuals suspected of planning Kim Jong n's assassination and coaxing the two women into carrying it
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out have never been arrested in September 2019 City Aisha gave an exclusive interview to the Daily
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Mail although she acknowledged that had lied to her she noted that in a roundabout way his promise of making her
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a celebrity had come true stating who would imagine that someone like me who only went to Primary School
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could become world famous despite Kim jong-un's fears of being replaced by his brother sources
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indicate Kim Jong n had no interest in ruling some North Korean defectors had suggested that he lead a government in
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Exile but Jong n declined he didn't believe that maintaining power in the Kim family was
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in North Korea's best interest several days before his death Jong n had reached out to an old school
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friend from Switzerland letting him know he planned to return to Geneva within the
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week he was tired of doing business for North Korea a task which had become increasingly difficult thanks to his
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hostile relationship with his half brother Jong n planned to surrender his North Korean citizenship and relocate to
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Europe where he felt safer and could embark on a fresh start Kim Jong n is survived by his six
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children including his now 25-year-old son who was taken into protective custody by the CIA in in November
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2020 his whereabouts are unknown [Music]