How, by whom and why the older brother of the current North Korean dictator was killed

An impressive procession entered the "Palace of the Sun Kymsusan" in the northeast of Pyongyan on the morning of February 16, when the 75th anniversary of the birth of the late leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Ira was celebrated. His son, the current lord of the country, Kim Jong -un, in tightly buttoned black jacket and black wide trousers, solemnly walked at the head of several dozens of civil representatives of the highest elite and marshals in the uniforms strewn with orders of the Soviet model. All of them were respectful behind the young leader who, in the main hall of the mourning palace in the belt, bowed to the crystal sarcophagus, where the body of his father, the second representative of the ruling in North Korea, the Communist dynasty of Kims.

And at the same time, in a carefully guarded morgue of one of the hospitals in the distant tropical Malaysia, another corpse lay - the son of the same late leader of the DPRK and the older brother of the present. Which was poisoned on February 13, as if specifically for the 75th anniversary of his father.

Aerosol or needle?

This outwardly good -natured fat man had already tried to kill - South Korean intelligence established that a very serious attempt to attempt was in 2012, but she was prevented by the Chinese special services. And now the plan was successful-on February 13, to the rack at the entrance to the departure zone of the international airport of the largest Malaysian city, Kuala Lumpur, staggering, a full man and asked for help. Just, as he said, someone grabbed him very much behind his head and splashed something into his face. The man said that his head was cracking, he was suffocating. He was immediately taken to a large hospital, but a mysterious person died on the way. There was a passport with him in the name “Kim Chol”, but the Malaysian authorities already knew: the deceased is actually called Kim Jong to us, this is the 46-year-old eldest son of the late dictator DPRK Kim Jong Ira and the eldest ruler of this country Kim Jong-un.

CCDs of video surveillance showed that in the airport hall he was tightly covered by a young girl in a catchy T-shirt and mini-nut, who then poured his face from an aerosol spray. Almost immediately, the second young woman pressed a handkerchief to the man. After that, they quickly sat in a taxi and disappeared. But the police worked quickly: both girls and a driver-taxist have already been detained. Women seems to be not professional saboteurs. One of them is an Indonesia citizen, the other is Vietnam. They assure that someone unfamiliar invited them to take part in the draw for $ 100 of each. However, they allegedly did not suspect that they were participating in the murder.

By the way, there is already a version that the attack on Kim Jong Nam was only an imitation of a terrorist attack that was well -filled with video cameras. In fact, they say, he could truly poison him (for example, with a blow of a poisoned needle) in the toilet, where he first quite cheerfully went to wash off the aerosol. And the real killer, they say, after that, calmly disappeared, holding the attention of the police to the search for catchy girls.

The versions, of course, will still appear and refute. So far, it has only been established that the elder brother of the DPRK leader was killed by an unknown poison. In Seoul and Washington, they said that this was done by the forces of the North Korean special services. But why?

Under the cap of Beijing

The mother of Kim Jong Nam was one of the famous North Korean actresses Song Hey Rome, who became the mistress of the future North Korean leader Kim Jong Ira when he was still in the position of the crown prince. His father, the founder of the DPRK Generalissimo Kim Il Sign did not approve of this connection, and his grandson dared to show him only when the boy was five years old. After that, the heir was ordered to part with the actress, she fell into depression for a long time and died in Moscow in 2002.

However, the harsh grandfather approved his grandson, and he sent to study in Switzerland: he spent nine years there and firmly used to free bourgeois customs. Returning to Pyongyang, Kim Jong began to receive state posts, and after the death of his grandfather and the reign of his father, he was considered the heir to the throne at one time. However, he turned out to be too big for this - in May 2001 he was detained at the Tokyo International Airport Narita with a fake Dominican passport. The guy arrived there with his wife, a child and a nanny, and during interrogation admitted that he simply wanted to visit Disneyland in a suburb of the Japanese capital. After that, Kim Jong Nam was deported: his father, according to rumors, was furious with such an Afront and deprived the eldest son of the status of the heir. Which later became his youngest brother from another mother Kim Jong -un - a purposeful and cruel person.

Well, the former heir seemed to even breathe a sigh of relief, because clearly did not have a craving for the grave duties of the sole lord of the poor and warlike country. He began to live abroad - at first in Beijing, and then more and more often in the autonomous Chinese capitalist Enclave of Macau under the auspices and protection of the PRC authorities. One of the journalists Kim Jong later told us that he chose this city, because there you can find the “most free and liberal orders” next to the main territory of the PRC, where his official family was located.

However, a new parallel wife and children soon appeared in him in Macau, and then in Singapore, where the former heir began to constantly run into. He did not seem to be in the means and even regularly played in the casino. According to one version, the deceased father provided him for the whole life, and according to the other, Kim Chen Nam was financed by private companies associated with Beijing.

The Chinese, according to Japanese data, took it under the cap of special services since about 2000. Then the great dad, the leader of the DPRK, was still alive, and Kim Jong, as it were, played the role of a hostage in an extremely soft form. In the sense that, they say, the Chinese control the eldest son of the head of North Korea. By the way, it is believed that, along with an unsuccessful trip to Disneyland, this was one of the factors that determined why Kim Jong became the real heir, but his younger brother.

The disappeared guard

Unlike his relatives, the eldest son led surprisingly a free lifestyle - he even gave free interviews. In one of them, for example, he ridiculed the monarchical nature of the reign in the DPRK and the system of transmission of power inherited there. He allowed himself to talk about the need for reforms, without which, according to him, the current regime in North Korea was waiting for collapse.

All this, undoubtedly, annoyed. But the main factor in the murder in Kuala Lumpur, according to the leadership of South Korean intelligence, was still dynastic considerations. After coming to power after the death of his father in December 2011, the new DPRK leader Kim Jong -un allegedly immediately gave the “permanent order” about the liquidation of his brother, although he clearly did not show interest in politics. However, it was perceived as a potential threat, since the eldest son, according to the laws of the patriarchal North Korean society, still has more legitimacy than the youngest. And someone can use it-for example, the same Beijing, if he wants to eliminate the current Naughty leader of the DPRK and replace him with a Chinese protege, but also from the Holy Dynasty of Kims.

By the way, the cruel reprisal was also connected with this, which the current leader of North Korea made over the husband of his native aunt. He was considered his mentor in state affairs and almost a "gray cardinal", a supporter of pro -Chinese policy. But the young leader remembered that his uncle always patronized his older brother, and this created the potential danger of conspiracy and a coup. In short, the "Gray Cardinal" was given to the tribunal, accused of anti -party activities and sentenced to death.

After that, a wave of reprisal against real and imaginary supporters of the executed swept through the DPRK. At the same time, relations with China, which Kim Jong -un, suspects of hostile intrigues worsened sharply. He has never visited the visit of the PRC, which, nevertheless, remains almost the only important economic partner of North Korea.

By the way, Japanese sources assure that employees of the Chinese intelligence services were constantly accompanied by an older brother. However, at the time of the attempt in Kuala Lumpur, as noted in Tokyo, next to Kim Jong Nam the video surveillance did not record anyone similar to the guard. In Seoul and Tokyo, they are now puzzling over whether it was a puncture of Beijing intelligence. Or did they decide to get rid of Kim Jong Nam to improve the relations with Pyongyang that have now cooled now?