Case Reopened: The Assassination of Kim Jong-nam

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We're on our end of season 9 break right now, back with our season 10 premier on 13 September. To fill the gap, we've delved into our archives to bring you an episode that has resonated with us for one reason or another. This week it's Mark's turn. Before he plays the episode, he talks you through why he's dug this particular episode out and why he was inspired to cover it. ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS: This week, we take a deep dive into the life and death of Kim Jong-nam, the brother of North Korean dictator and all round nut job Kim Jong-un. Following an ill-feted trip to Disneyland in 2001, Jong-nam was ostracised from the family and exiled to Macau. Here, he led a relatively normal life, going about his business under a false name, passing information to the CIA, while occasionally speaking out against his brother's authoritarian rule over North Korea. But the clock was always ticking on Kim Jong-nam's life and in 2017, as he arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport to fly home to his wife and kids, he was executed in front of dozens of passengers. Join us as we shine a light on North Korea and take you, in real-time, to the very public assassination of Kim Jong-nam. This case has been inspired by 'Assassins' - a true crime documentary which is available in virtual cinemas and on demand now. For further information, head to www.assassins-film.co.uk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	two three please enjoy responsibly hello and welcome to our case reopen series which is a very limited series on this occasion of just two episodes
0:37.9	This is something we like to do when we're on a mid-season or end-of-season break or on our end of season 9 break right now back with
0:44.9	season 10 on the 13th of September and this really is an opportunity for us to
0:49.9	kind of fill that gap and revisit an episode that has really resonated with us for one
0:56.0	reason or another.
0:57.8	It's my turn this week and I wanted to open the archives and dig out this particular
1:01.6	episode which is all about the assassination of
1:04.1	Kim Jong-Nam who is the brother of Kim Jong-il the authoritarian dictator of
1:09.8	North Korea. So I was inspired to cover this case when a film distribution
1:15.2	company got in touch with us in 2021. They were distributing a film called
1:20.8	Assassins which was all about the assassination of Kim Yongnam, a documentary a to work with them. We didn't get paid for this, it wasn't about that. We just thought it was an opportunity to do something a little bit different.
1:37.0	I think initially the distribution company wanted us to interview the director of the film but that's not really befitting of what we do so
1:46.7	we work together and came up with the idea of just basically doing an episode on the assassination of Kim Yongnam in the hope really that it would
1:54.8	wet people's appetites and they would want to find out more and then go and watch the film
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