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Ryan White on the Bizarre Murder of Kim Jong-Nam

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Society & Culture, News

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Documentary filmmaker Ryan White (The Case Against 8, The Keepers) talks about his new film Assassins about the murder of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un's half brother Kim Jong-Nam. He recounts how Kim Jong-Nam was killed in broad daylight with the deadly VX nerve agent, questions the press’s sensational portrayal of two young Southeast Asian women as diabolical black widow assassins, and reveals that the truth of what happened is even more bizarre than anything that the media could make up. Ryan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In February of 2017, most Americans were focused on domestic news as Donald Trump's first

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full-month-an-office unfolded. Meanwhile in Malaysia, Kim Jong-un and other North Koreans

1:27.2

had perfectly executed the most baffling assassination plot of all time.

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After Kim Jong-un's half-brother and rival Kim Jong-nam ended up dead in the middle of the

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Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the country was shocked to learn that two young women were

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to blame for his murder. While they were both caught on close circuit TV footage,

1:48.5

both women claimed to have no idea they had killed someone and that they had been hired to

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pull a simple prank for a TV show. Now, a new documentary called Assassin's questions every

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angle of this case from human trafficking to geopolitical espionage to the secretive dynamics

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of the North Korean dynasty. The film investigates the two young women caught in a global spy thriller

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