Father's birthday murder

The story of the life and death of the 46-year-old Kim Jong Nam, the senior lord of the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un, is overgrown with new amazing details. But the majority have no doubt that on February 13, in Malaysia, the North Korean special services committed a demonstrative murder - out of revenge, jealousy and to intimidate all subjects of the brilliant comrade and the genius among geniuses, standing at the head of the DPRK. And also - as a “gift” to Pompeyely celebrated on February 16 in North Korea , Kim Jong Ira , the father of both the current dictator and the murdered.

In Malaysia on Thursday, February 16, as the police told one of the oldest local English -language publications of the New Straits Times , another, the third suspect in connection with the investigation of the death of Kim Jong Nama was arrested . His name is not called, this is a 26-year-old citizen of Malaysia, supposedly a lover of one of the two women previously detained in this case, identified by records from video surveillance cameras at the Kuala-Lumpur International Airport , where a crime was committed. The first at the time of the arrest on February 15, everything at the same airport had documents in the name of a citizen of Vietnam (first it was said that Myanmar), she was 29 years old, she was heading in Hanoi. The second woman, who had a Malaysian boyfriend, 25 years old, at her hotel, during the detention, found an Indonesian passport and a ticket to Seoul, the capital of South Korea. At the same time, the court issued a statement that both women were “detained to assist the investigation”, and it is forbidden to leave the country only within the next seven days. Later, there were reports that the Malaysia special services put on the wanted list five more suspects, one of which is a woman.

The detained citizen of Vietnam, calling himself Don Tee Hyong, is the very main suspect in a white sweater with a large inscription "Lol" on his chest, the images of which were replicated in recent days by the world media. According to the Malaysian publication The Star , she says that she was accidentally at the scene and became a victim of deception - some new acquaintances allegedly asked her to play a friend, throwing a wet scarf on his face. The "friend" was Kim Jong to us.

The alleged killer Kim Jong Nam

According to South Korean journalists from the largest edition of Choson Ilbo , Kim Jong to death, when he asked for help from employees in the Klia2 Klia2 terminal of the Kuala-Lumpur International Airport, he suffocated, his eyes were almost burned, and foam was on his mouth. He allegedly said that someone grabbed him from behind and either splashed with some kind of liquid in the face, or threw a strange smelling scarf on him (so far no version was officially confirmed). Kim Jong died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital of the official Malaysian capital of Putrajay (this is the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur). The poison used to kill, as local doctors said on the same day, seemed even more toxic than potassium cyanide. And the women who once participated in this crime, according to the Malaysian special services, then calmly sat in a taxi and left the airport-the driver who was also placed under arrest told about this.

On Thursday, Deputy General General of the police inspector Malaysia Tan Sri Nur Rashid Ibrahim announced the completion of the pathological examination of the body of the deceased, but did not declare the opening results. However, there have already been assumptions that the poison that the criminals used could be either ricin (though it does not act so quickly), or a tetrodotoxin , for example, contained in the inside of the gourmets of delicacy of the needle -bold fish, in Japan called a fugue .

Kim Jong to us

Reuters writes that the DPRK authorities on the day of death Kim Jong Nam turned to Kuala Lumpur with a request not to conduct an autopsy , and then sent a delegation to Malaysia, who visited the hospital where he died. After which Pyongyang asked to return the body of the deceased to his homeland. However, the Malaysian authorities have not yet made a decision, especially since Kim Jong lived in Macau, had Chinese documents, and on the day of the murder he had a passport addressed to Kim Chen Changol. It is noteworthy that the name of his younger hazardous brother, the middle son of Kim Jong Ira and his older brother Kim Jong -un, probably hiding from the North Korean intelligence services in London in 2015. At the same time, the Malaysian special services, according to Reuters and the media of South Korea, have already made it clear that they did not intend to tolerate any possible pressure on the investigation.

In order to understand the obvious motives of the “elimination” of the elder brother Kim Jong-un, it is necessary to recall his biography and characteristics of character, the diplomat and scientist Georgy Kunadze , the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, who served as an ambassador to the Republic of Korea in the 90s:

- He was, of course, one of the many "white raven" in a fairly branched ruling family of North Korean Kims. Mother Kim Jong Nama, a very famous actress Song Hey Rome , illegal wife Kim Jong Ira, in front of her death in 2002 lived in Moscow, the usual life of the Moscow elite. She was by no means a recluse of the "North Korean type", as we imagine it. Of course, Kim Jong grew up by a playboy, studied and often visited abroad, and in the late 90s he was secretly considered the future "heir." But his character was inappropriate for this.

“Did he always make a liveliness?” The good-natured fat man, in 2001, caught at the Tokyo airport of Narita with a fake Dominican passport to the Chinese name "Pan Sun", which is translated as a "fat bear", when he was either a family or several lovers at once only to visit the Disneyland there. Did this failed entertain cost him power?

Kim Jong to us (stands on the right) and Kim Jong -un (sits on the right), with his father Kim Jong Ir. 1981

- His father was terribly angry, yes, their relationship collapsed, but at the same time Kim Jong received freedom to us! And the fact is that Kim Jong Il for a long time, as far as is known, reflected on to whom to transfer the state, because nevertheless Kim is the older Kim Jong-un, and therefore, taking into account local traditions, he was more “legitimumen”.

- I know that there was another factor inherent only to North Korea - an unspoken communist caste system, known as the "Sonbun". It is said that Kim Jong Nama was a purebred Korean, and his stepmother Ko Yong Ha , his younger impatient brothers, Kim Jong -un and missing Kim Jong Chan, there was an admixture of Japanese blood. One way or another, relations with his younger brother, the current dictator Kim Jong -un, his elder brother was bad, but he tried not to annoy him - is that true?

- No one is absolutely about what you say, does not know. This is the DPRK! Of course, it is unlikely that the younger brother, and the part-time “great leader” could have some kind of warm feelings for a person who, firstly, was his competitor for a long time, who, secondly, his older and who (here, in my opinion, the most important and curious psychological moment) lived abroad, in the “free” Macau , and lived quite freely, traveled. But Kim Jong -un at the beginning of the century they pulled out of Switzerland, where he also studied and loved to look and play basketball, brought to Pyongyang and began to foddle up in order to strengthen the resemblance to his grandfather, Kim Ir Sen, to whom he really is very similar. Probably, the “great leader” was in full swing and jealousy for a person who, as it were, stole his fate and now lives a calm life, without really thinking about anything, ”says Georgy Kunadze .

In February 2012, Kim Jong made a sensation to us when the book of the journalist of the newspaper Tokyo Simbun, Yoji Gomi, was published in Japan, based on their mutual electronic correspondence, which lasted, as it turned out, for seven years, since the end of 2004, and in one long personal interview. Here's what the Russian Koreudser Professor Andrei Lankov writes about her :

"Unlike other members of the ruling family, Kim Jong did not avoid contacts with foreign correspondents-Japanese, French, and even, sometimes, South Korean-if it managed to intercept him abroad, somewhere at the airport or at the hotel. This communication usually did not last long and for the most part consisted of exchanging as good-natured jokes, but in some cases Kim Heat allowed us Critical and critical statements, over time, both the frequency of such meetings and the radicality (however, very relative) statements of Kim Chen Nam increased. He admitted that the reforms, of course, are a solution to North Korean economic problems and the only way to radically improve the well -being of the people ... Once, turning through an interview through the newspaper to Kim Jong -un (at that time, the "heir to the throne", and currently the ruler of the country), he directly asked his brother to start reforms. "

Kim Jong allowed us quite frank and critical statements

According to the former ambassador of Russia to South Korea, Orientalist Georgy Kuzanza , if the late Kim Chen refrained from such letters and statements, maybe he would have lived longer:

-You need to understand that when you just talk about the fact that, they say, it would be nice to change something, these are just free words, but when you speak quite specifically about the "reforms of the Chinese model", it already sounds like a direct challenge of power. Because this is exactly what the leaders themselves in Beijing include North Korea, and this is what, in principle, under some conditions could work. If tomorrow the DPRK try to quickly turn, for example, into Switzerland, nothing will come of it, and if in China - from an economic point of view, it may turn out. So conversations in general about reforms are permissible for a member of the ruling family living a fairly free life, liberty, and hints of specific steps sound like criticism and appeal.

- I heard that Kim Chen Nam had already attempted several times in this decade, until the last time unsuccessfully. But there is an opinion that Kim Jong was actually no cursory opposition, because no one would have allowed him from the very beginning, and a kind of financial messenger of the "family". Because it was through Macau (Aomin), who has a special status , the DPRK for decades led foreign financial and trade operations. How do you like this version?

Macau in recent decades, since the Portuguese government, remains one of the largest centers of gambling business in East Asia

- I am not inclined to agree with her, because such, sorry, sorry, I wandered to entrust the financial secrets of such a state as the DPRK (and there is nothing more important for the North Korean elite), it would be a great negligence. It is unlikely that Kim Jong Nam was used in this capacity. And on the other hand, he, I agree, was not any dissident and close. It’s just that many representatives of the Kim family received in the past, and now, apparently, they receive permission to live abroad so that they do not get down under their feet.

- Kim Jong lived in the PRC, loved China, obviously praised the economic and foreign policy of Beijing, which has a huge impact on Pyongyang, maybe more and more. There is another version: that he could be considered a potential “Chinese heir” in the DPRK itself, Beijing’s protege in the event of some unexpected development of events in North Korea and around it. That he was destroyed.

Kim Jong -un

- I think that in China and in the DPRK he was not considered anyone. But his younger impatient brother Kim Jong -un could well have thought about it, and, probably, he was whispering about it. I am sure that the North Korean special services committed this murder. If only because such exotic and public methods of killing a person are in principle inherent in the Northern Koreans. North Korea lives by the mid-20th century, at best, perhaps, and the 19th.

- Does the way and style of this crime prove the complete lack of practicalism among the chiefs in Pyongyang? Why attract attention, why do you need rising noise and shock?

- Vice versa. Because to kill just that, in their opinion, both interesting and pleasant. Kim Jong Nama would slowly, would he die in his bed - who would talk about this? And here is such an event! And everyone secretly hesitates think: “Yes, you need to keep your ear in your own“ great leader ”, he does not joke.

Kill just that, in their opinion, both interesting and pleasant

-That is, this crime is from a series of periodically incoming news of some completely medieval executions in North Korea , where people are fed altogether and shoot from anti-aircraft machine guns? All these are an intimidation shares?

- Certainly! Why do you need to shoot a person from an anti -aircraft machine gun, if you can kill him with one bullet from a pistol? But they are shot from a machine gun! Here is the same story, in its purest form. Or remember all the terrorist attacks that the North Koreans committed in the past in South Korea. They also fit into the foreign policy line of behavior of Pyongyang - which in this case continued the murder of the failed "heir".