2 Girls Accidentally Killed Kim Jong Un’s Brother Thinking It Was a YouTube Prank

Bada bing, bada boom. This one's a doozy. I don't even know. what to tell you. Mr. Kim Chol was. standing at the big screen in the middle. of the busy airport in Malaysia. And. lucky for us, since what's about to go. down is happening in a busy airport, we. have all the CCTV footage of one of the. most insane murders that we've ever. covered to date. But back to Mr. Kim. Chol. He had just checked in his bag. He's standing there hands-free. All he. has is this black backpack that's slung.

over one shoulder. This black backpack. is going to be very important, so keep. this in mind. Now, he had just been on a. solo trip to Malaysia. It was fun, but. he's itching. He's itching to go back. home to his wife and kids in China, in. Macau, China. His eyes are scanning the. rows and rows of like brightly flashing. numbers, the flight numbers, and he. finds his. He memorizes the gate number. He turns on his heel, and right as he's. turning, he hears footsteps behind him. But I mean, that's to be expected. It's. an airport. But it's almost like these.

um pitter-patter footsteps, like like. someone's running up behind him. Maybe. someone is missing their flight. Someone's late. What's that got to do. with him, right? But suddenly suddenly. he can't see. Someone's hands are. covering his eyes. Like if you were to. run up to your boyfriend and you're. trying to be cute, you put your hands. around his eyes and you're like playing. peekaboo, right? Guess who? It's like a. K-drama moment. But he knew that his. entire family, all of his friends, they. were in China. As far as he knew, there. was nobody that he knew in Malaysia.

There was There was no one who would. know him to do this. Before he had time. to turn around, another set of hands. grabbed his face this time. Like kind of. covered his mouth. It's almost like. someone slapped him without the impact. He felt someone's fingernail. uncomfortably poke into his nose, and he. tried to grab at whatever was touching. his face. He ends up grabbing an arm. And he opens his eyes and he sees this. young woman standing in front of him. And he's so puzzled. He'd never seen. this girl before and she looks really. young. And all she can say is sorry,

sorry. She breaks free from his grasp. And suddenly, these two girls, they're. gone. Whoever they were, they ran up to. him, played peekaboo, touched his face a. couple times, and they were running off. How old are they? Like. Like early 20s. They look really young, yeah. He stood there really confused, just. like, what the hell just happened? Like, what the hell is wrong with girls these. days? Like, stupid kids. And then it started to burn. Like, his whole face started to burn. Wherever they had touched him with their. hands, it started to hurt. He reaches up.

trying to touch his face and he's. thinking, okay, maybe one of the girls'. fingernails dug into my nose and that's. why it stinks so much. But that doesn't. make sense because my eyes feel like. they're about to be on fire. My retinas. feel like there is an inferno raging. inside of them, like a bonfire. Maybe there was something on their. hands, like some sort of alcohol residue. or something, because why would it burn? Kim Cho beeline it straight to the. airport's medical center. He told the. receptionist that someone had come up. behind him, attacked him, and now his.

face is burning and it was very hard to. see. He didn't know Malay, but he knew a. little bit of English and he hoped that. she would understand, so he kept. screaming, "Very painful, very painful. I was sprayed liquid." The first thought. everyone had was, maybe it's acid. Maybe. this is an acid attack. The receptionist looked carefully, but. his skin didn't seem like something had. happened. It looked normal. So, it. didn't seem like acid and he was walking. and talking just fine. So, she did not. think that he was in mortal imminent. danger. His eyes were a little bit red, but.

maybe something got into it. So, she hit. the call button and said, "Okay, Mr. Cho, we're going to wait for the next. doctor to be with you. It's an airport. hospital, we don't have a full staff. Please sit down.". He sits down in the waiting room and. after a few minutes, the receptionist. peeks over her desk. Mr. Cho is not. sitting up in the chair anymore. He's. slumped down, shoulders below the top of. the backseat, almost falling out of his. chair. He looks like a drunk man. His. head is kind of tilted to the side. He. was unconscious. The nurse is pressing.

the emergency call button. She's rushing. out from behind the desk. She takes. inventory of the situation and it's bad. He has tense muscles, ragged, shallow. breathing. He's not responding to any. verbal or physical cues or stimuli. Within seconds, an ambulance was at the. door, ready to take him to the nearest. major hospital. They slipped an oxygen. mask over his face. His whole body was. unresponsive and limp. In the span of 30 minutes, this man, Kim. Chol, had been murdered in broad.

daylight at a busy airport. That's not. even the strange part. That is the tip of the iceberg, okay? The attack in the airport by these two. female assassins lasted less than 3. seconds. It was perfectly synchronized. Two women had delivered a fatal dose of. one of the deadliest poisons known to. mankind by smearing it on their hands. and thus smearing it on his face. This poison had been outlawed by the. Chemical Weapons Convention and a treaty.

signed by just about every single. country on planet Earth, including. Malaysia. Governments were not even. allowed to stockpile this weapon. It was. that dangerous. The US at one point had. a big stockpile and after they signed. this treaty, they dumped it in the. ocean. They put it on a bunch of ships. and sank the ship. No way. Deep in the ocean. This is a man-made. weapon, a chemical weapon of mass. destruction. And it's like baby oil. Just an oily. substance. But now it had been used to.

kill this random man in an airport. More. curious than that is, I mean, why did. the two women kill him? Are they. unhinged? What happened? These two women. had never met each other before before. this exact moment that they had worked. flawlessly to murder a random innocent. passerby. They could have targeted the. young woman walking out of baggage. claim. They could have targeted the. mother with her stroller nearby. Why did. they choose this man? Was it random? Maybe not. The. authorities opened this man's, well, now. dead man's black backpack, the only.

thing that he had on his body, and they. found four different passports, all. fake. Four bricks of $100 bills totaling. to over $100,000. Wow. And get this. 12 vials of a substance called atropine. Atropine is the antidote to the same. very toxic, very illegal chemical weapon. that was just used to kill him. What? Exactly. What is going on? So many.

questions. The authorities didn't even. know exactly who this man was for a. minute there because he had four fake. passports in his bag. Well, it turns. out, and it's very quick to get to this, but uh turns out this guy's real name. wasn't Kim Chol like it was on his. passports or his fake IDs. His name was. Kim Jong Nam. Sound familiar? Older brother to Kim Jong Un and. original heir to the North Korean. dictatorship. No freaking way. He had just been murdered by two girls.

who would swear it was an accident. These two girls would be known as. assassins, but they came out and swore. to the world that they thought that they. were part of a YouTube prank video. They claimed that they just wanted to be. YouTube famous. They had no intention of. killing anyone and especially not the. dictator of North Korea's older brother. This is absolutely on another level. unreal. If this was a movie, I would say this is. unbelievable and stupid. But this is.

real life. The two girls said random men. had approached them offering to pay them. money to be a part of their YouTube. prank videos. All they had to do was go. up to strangers and touch their face. with baby oil on their hands. So, did. these two random girls who wanted to be. on YouTube really assassinate a member. of the Kim dynasty in North Korea? Or is there a lot more to the story? This is the story of the world's most. unexpected female assassins.

As always, full show notes are available. at rottenmangopodcast.com. We are talking about North Korea today. I feel absolutely a thousand percent. completely, totally safe. Yes, I do. Which is why I'm letting you.

know that if I suddenly stop posting. videos, maybe you should be worried. Maybe I should be worried. We're all. worried over here, okay? But it's fine. It's okay. I don't know. Positivity. Optimism might be the end I'm I'm. telling you before we get into this. story, North Korea as a whole, like as a. country, as a unit, has denied any and. all conclusions that you may come up. with about this case. They basically. said, "Hey, you. Whatever you're. thinking I did, I didn't do it. So, what. are you going to do about it?".

So, um I'm just going to give you the. information, but you're connecting the. dots at your own risk, and any and all. conclusions are alleged. So, with that. being said, let's get into it. Are they aspiring. YouTubers or are they female assassins? That's the question the whole world. wants to know. Because the YouTubers. that they're working for, the men that. hired them to do these YouTube pranks, who are they? Well, come to find out, they're North Korean spies. But how much. of that did the two girls know? So, let's talk about the two girls. Siti was.

from a remote farming village in. Indonesia with a population of about. like 500 people. It's likely that the. water buffalo out numbered the villagers. in this town. Like that's how small it. was. Her neighbors said that she was a very. quiet and religious child. Her father. was really involved in the mosque and. she was kind of like his. like his mini-me. He was responsible for. singing the call to prayer at the mosque. which happens like five times a day. So. when he's not doing that, he was selling. spices. And after Siti went through. school which only went up to the sixth. grade in their village, she worked with.

him at home. She was bundling up spices. to sell to the other villagers. She. worked really hard. But at the end of. the day, she would go to sleep at night. thinking, "Okay, there's got to be more. to life. Like this can't be it. Are you. kidding? The world is so big. I don't. want to look at more suitable water. buffaloes than potential husbands. I. want to go see I want to go see people. I want to see the world." So she dreamed. of a bigger life and she just had a. single goal. Her whole life goal was she. wanted to buy her parents a house to. retire on so that they wouldn't have to.

work, they could be comfortable. Siti is. 14 when she decides to move out of the. village and move to the capital. A. relative told her that they could get. her a job in Jakarta. She was so excited. to finally work towards her dream. She. packed all of her things, moves to. Jakarta, travels all the way there and. sees that the job waiting for her is a. sweatshop. And she's looking around. She's standing in the middle of this. huge warehouse with a bunch of tired. women that are just sitting on these. cheap plastic stools in front of desks. that are barely big enough to even fit a.

sewing machine. There was a cushion on. the stool though. She felt like that was. a positive. But at least she would be. making money, right? I mean, it's not. the most glamorous job, but it it's. something. So she sucked up her pride, got to work. She worked 16-hour days. every single day. No weekends, no. windows. And at the end of the month, she would send all the money back home. to her parents. She did this for 2. years. The other ladies at the sweatshop. felt like she just didn't talk enough. She was very shy. She kept herself. Never did any small talk. But after a.

year or so of working there, all the. women started whispering about her. You. know, I saw her at the market. with the sweatshop's owner's son. That's. crazy. Within months of dating, she ends. up getting married to the owner's son. She was still 16 at the time, and a lot. of these older women, they were. whispering, you know, what what do you. think made them want to get married so. bad? Why were they rushing? Soon enough, they had their answer. Siti. had given birth to a baby boy. The. sweatshop went bust in 2010, so Siti and.

her family, like her new husband and her. son, they moved to Malaysia for better. work opportunities. Her husband tries. working at restaurants, and Siti doesn't. have any prior work experience. All she. had was the sweatshop, and there were no. jobs for her in Malaysia. A single. waiter salary is nowhere near enough to. support the both of them and the baby. So, what does she do? She's 18. She. thinks of the only way to put food on. the table. She gets into sex work. Now, the family. was able to keep afloat for a bit, but. this is the sad part. Siti wasn't even. doing this because she enjoyed it. Like,

she's doing it to put food on the table. to support her family. One day, she. comes home from work, her husband slaps. divorce papers down on the table. She. moves back to her village with her baby, and she just feels like, I had a taste. of that big city life. I went through. the motions. I saw these professionals. I saw these big tall buildings that look. like they're going to touch the sky. I. saw these people living in these fancy. luxurious apartments, and I want that. life. And like, coming back to the. village now, it's just not doing it for. me. And she felt like, not only do I. want that life, but I want my son to. have that life. So, she sends her son.

with the husband or the ex-husband to be. raised. She just felt like there were. more opportunities that way. And Siti. keeps thinking of ways that she's going. to get back into Malaysia and get back. into the workforce. And once she gets. back again, she finds out that the only. available jobs for her with her work. experience and connections were in the. sex industry. So, she starts off as a. spa masseuse. She slowly rises to doing. online escorting. She charges almost her. entire sweatshop monthly wage for one. session, and she's finally making enough.

kind of to live and to send money back. to her parents every single month. She. also traveled back home to Indonesia. every single month because Indonesians. don't need a visa to stay in Malaysia. So, as long as they're there for less. than 30 days, it's fine, which means. every 30 28 days or so, she would have. to leave the country and then reenter. So, she would go back to Indonesia, and. she said that it was just rough. Like, yes, she was sending home to her. parents, but she was basically living a. double life. She kept her work a secret.

from her family. Her parents went to the. mosque every single week and gave thanks. for their daughter's success in the big. city. And since they're so religious and. since they're so proud of her, she just. I mean, there was just no way for her to. tell them the truth. And she knew that. if she told them how she was making this. money, how she was sending it, they. would immediately make her come back to. the village where they would take care. of her, try to protect her, try to. shield her from these things. So, she would sit there and listen to. them thank Allah for giving them a.

daughter that worked so hard for the. family. She just I don't know. She said. it was a very complicated feeling, and. it broke her heart to keep this secret. And her one goal was, "I want to give my. parents everything, but one day I'm. going to build a real career. I'm going. to do something outside of sex work, and. I can move on from this so that I don't. have to feel like I'm living a double. life." So, when a friend introduced her. to a taxi driver who said that he could. get her an acting job, CD is through the. moon. I mean, she was skeptical, yeah, but she can't afford to pass up an. opportunity like this. The taxi driver.

is not the one hiring. He said, "You. know, I gave this ride to this I think. he was Japanese a Japanese man named. James. He said that he's he's got this. huge YouTube channel, works for a. production company, and they're going to. make YouTube pranks.". So, this is like in 2017 where YouTube. pranks. were the it thing. Wait, this happened 2017? Yes. This is when my. kidding me? I why I don't know why I. thought this happened like 25 years ago. No. Like YouTube pranks were the it.

thing back in the day in 2017. Like all. those elevator YouTube pranks were. raging. Like all of that. Wow. kind of made sense. Everyone was like, "Oh yeah, everyone's putting money into. YouTube pranks right now." So this. Japanese guy named James is like, "Hey. taxi driver, here's my card. If you ever. find future actresses who want to be. part of my YouTube videos, just have. them call me." So Siti is like, "Okay, absolutely." She calls James's number. and she meets up with him. Now, you. probably already guessed it. James is no. Japanese man. He's a North Korean spy.

They met for the first time January of. 2017, a little over a month before Kim. Jong Nam's death. On the day of the meeting, Siti took a. short like selfie video of her and. James, which becomes vital evidence. later. This was not anything new for. Siti. She dreamed of making it in the. industry. She dreamed of acting and. quitting work, and she documented her. entire journey. Like this was the very. first step. She hoped that someone would. see these videos and maybe cast her as.

like a minor character in a minor role, and then eventually that would lead to. something bigger and bigger, and then. she would have a job that her parents. would be proud about. That was her new. dream. James did not speak any. Indonesian, so they had to use Google. Translate to communicate, but it was. pretty clear. She was going to get paid. about $100 per prank. James introduced. her to his cameraman who would also be. there during all of these pranks, and he. was going to film everything. James. would stay hidden, and Siti would be the one facilitating. the pranks to these random strangers. James also introduced her to the YouTube.

channel boss. His name was Mr. Chang. So. whereas James was very shy and reserved, Mr. Chang was outgoing, friendly, even a. little flirtatious with Siti. He knew. Indonesian, Japanese, Korean. I mean, Siti was very impressed by this man. She. thought, "No wonder he's the brains. behind this whole thing. He seems like. an entrepreneur. He seems like a. go-getter. Mr. Chang is just another one. of the North Korean spies. There were. eight North Korean spies on this alleged. mission. Every man in this operation is.

a North Korean spy, but CD had no. freaking clue. Neither did Doan. So, Doan is the other. actress. They don't know each other. CD. and Doan had never met prior to this. They're not even from the same country. They don't even speak the same language. Doan was also from a small rural farming. village, but she was from Vietnam. She. was the baby of the family. Her father. treasured her so much like any award. that she ever got in school. Like even. like the participation awards, her. father would frame it and put it in this. waterproof accordion folder so that.

nothing would ever ever happen to it. He. was so lucky. He just felt so blessed. that he had this incredibly well-behaved. child, a good student who was never. troublesome. I mean, people describe her. as being very peaceful and gentle. That's how she's described. She. graduated from public school and then. got accepted into the private university. in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. She. moved alone to the big capital and. dedicated herself to studying. Some sources say that she studied. pharmacy. Others say it was accounting,

but they all say that she was unable to. find a job after graduating. So, she. gets a temporary job waiting tables at a. local pub and she starts modeling. I. mean, everyone at this pub is like, "You. are literally so freaking pretty. You. need to get into modeling right now. Here, I've got a connection. They're. looking for a small-time model." So, she. takes on a couple of gigs. She's an. aspiring actress now. She auditioned for. the Vietnam Idol, which is the. Vietnamese version of American Idol. And. on her social media accounts, she went. by her stage name Ruby Ruby. So, just.

like CD, Doan heard about the YouTube. actress job through a friend of a. friend. Now, in December of 2016, 2. months before Nam's death, Doan's friend. brought Doan to a bar in downtown to. meet the recruiter, Mr. Y. This is a. different guy from James and Mr. Chang, the one that recruited Siti, okay? Mr. Y. was dressed in a fancy tailored suit. He. spoke fluent Vietnamese. He acted like a. very legitimate producer. He was also in. his 30s, Dawn was in her 20s, and he. took her around the city and he would.

show her his favorite spots. He texted. her good morning after he woke up and. good night before he went to bed. He took her shopping, bought her. Christmas gifts, even took her to the. aquarium one day because she said that. she was bored. They took pictures. together in front of the fish tanks and. he would take her hand through the. exhibits. It It's It started to feel. like some sort of relationship. Dawn was. starting to fall for this man. And it. seemed like he was falling for her, but. they would still do a couple of jobs. here and there. The first prank took. place at a busy supermarket. The.

objective was to kiss a stranger on the. cheek and run away. Dawn was so freaking. nervous, okay? I mean, she was so. freaked out. I mean, when she got there, heard the objective, and saw all the. people, she had all these butterflies in. her stomach. I mean, she's normally a. very shy person. Like, I get it. She. wants to make it in the industry, but. she's very shy. They tried filming the prank a couple of. times, but every time Dawn would chicken. out and she's like, "I can't do it. I. can't do it.". Mr. Y was very nice about it. He and his. cameraman would scrap the shoot. They'd. say, "Okay, it's fine. Why don't we just. go out for drinks instead?" So, they'd.

go to the bar, take a couple shots. Dawn. would say that she would get pretty. drunk, but not blacking out. And then. one time, Mr. Y and the cameraman took. her to the next door over, which was a. North Korean restaurant. So, okay, it. specifically wasn't advertised as a. North Korean restaurant, but there are. allegedly hundreds of North Korean. restaurants in Vietnam that allegedly. function as a way for North Korea to get. foreign currency and are also allegedly. a hub for spies. Interesting, okay? Wow. Everyone in the area kind of knew it was.

a North Korean restaurant. But she didn't know. She knew. Oh, she knew. Okay. but I mean, it's just a restaurant. It's. not like you go in and you got to get. shipped to North Korea, right? Dawn says. that she thinks they took her to this. restaurant in order to see if she would. chicken out or not want to go in or. would say something bad about North. Korea or would discriminate against the. food. Maybe they felt like if she did, she wasn't right for the job. But she. didn't say anything. was on the line. Like. Like she didn't say anything. She didn't. hesitate. She didn't act weird. I mean, it's just a restaurant like that serves.

kind of North Korean food that's rumored. to have North Korean spies, but. whatever, right? She ate the food. She. acted normal. So they continued with. her. They tried a couple more pranks and. Mr. Y would get her to get a big stuffed. teddy bear for her to practice pranks on. and she did and she was slowly getting. braver. Mr. Y told her the next one. would be international. He asked for her. passport. She gave it to him. And he. flew her out to Malaysia and Cambodia to. practice more pranks. Dawn was enamored.

I mean, this feels like she's. I imagine this is like what dating Mr. Beast feels like, like getting flown out. to do a YouTube video. It feels very. like. Fancy. Fancy and oh my gosh, I'm making steps. in my career. This is like exciting. She. was getting flown out internationally to. act in these viral YouTube videos. I. mean, she's already a model and now her. dream of becoming an actress is becoming. more and more close. It's becoming more. and more true and feasible. Now, on the. other hand, so Dawn is practicing on a. teddy bear. She's doing these random.

pranks in public. CD was kind of going. through the same thing, but a little bit. different. She's working with the North. Korean spies James and Mr. Chang. They. would meet her in a predetermined public. location, which was almost always busy. with people and it was it was a bit less. romantic. Mr. Y took this almost. romantic approach to the whole thing. These two guys, they did not. They would. pay her the money and typically she. would walk up to a stranger, hold their. hand. I feel like we've seen these on. TikTok. You know, the elevator video or.

the escalator videos. So she would walk. up to a stranger, hold their hand, they. would turn around look at her, and then. she would say, "Sorry, sorry." And run. off. That's so scary now. Now you think about. it, it's like after you hearing about. this, man, I don't want people touching. my hand, you know, cuz you don't know. what's on there. Like as a YouTuber, I would be scared to. film these cuz I don't know what. people's reactions are going to be. And. I don't know if they're going to. overreact or if they not overreact, but. Yeah. So, then she would run away. CD herself. said, "I didn't really think that the.

jokes were that funny, but hey, I'm getting paid $100 a prank. There must be an audience, there must be. people that are watching this cuz what. the hell, right?" Sometimes they would. smear CD's hand with lotion before the. prank. Keep this in mind, okay? So, they. would smear her hand with lotion and. they would say, "Okay, go up to that. stranger and wipe the lotion on their. face." She would do it, and it almost. never escalated to the point of someone. hurting her or getting mad at her. Almost everyone just seemed confused and. silently angry. Then they would.

escalate, they would say, "Hey, put this. baby oil on your hands and play peekaboo. with that random stranger." So, she. would run up to a random man and they. would always pick the person that they. wanted her to approach. She would run up. to the random man, put her hands cover. his eyes, and then when he turned around. she would say, "Sorry, sorry." And then. run off. There was always a cameraman. that was hiding in the corner filming. the whole thing. And with every. escalation, which. from the nothing to the baby lotion to. the baby oil, she would get paid more. and more.

And with the life that CD had, this was. comparatively easy money. She could do. the prank and then apologize and run. away afterwards. She hadn't run into. anyone that had like a black belt yet or. that had crazy anger issues. So, she. felt like, "Okay, I guess I'm not really. hurting anyone and the pranks are. harmless, so. at least I can send money back to my. parents." That's how she justified it. And James and Mr. Chang promised her at. the end of the day these videos were the. in into the entertainment industry. You. get into the YouTube prank videos and.

then soon you're going to win an Oscar. That's what they're telling her. You're. going to become a famous actress. In. hindsight, they weren't wrong about the famous. part. CD would become internationally known. February 13th of 2017, Mr. Cheng was. walking through an airport. He's not. running, but he's he's walking pretty. fast. He's walking with a purpose. He. had somewhere to be, right? He walks up. to one of those cafes that are before. the airport security line. So, it's. technically open to anyone. You don't. need a boarding pass. You don't need to. get through security. It's just before.

you go into the airport or maybe you're. saying bye to a loved one. So, he sits. there and he meets up with a young. woman, CD. CD is patiently waiting for. him. She had gotten a text for this. airport location and she thought that. she was here just to film another. YouTube prank video. I mean, this is. what she's been doing for the past. month, getting paid to go meet at an. undetermined very public location and he. would point out a couple of people, she. would run up and put some baby oil on. their face, get paid a couple hundred. bucks.

She had already ordered her coffee. She. was sitting down waiting for him. He. didn't even bother ordering anything. He. just walked right up to her and. explained the game plan. Today, we've. got a new prank. Okay, it's kind of like. the lotion prank, but a little bit. different. Here's the idea. We're going. to put some um. We're going to put a blend to the. peekaboo prank and the baby oil prank. So, I'm going to cover your hands with. oil and maybe some lotion later. You're. going to walk up to people that we point. at and cover their eyes. Easy peasy, right? Okay, sounds good. Do you have a. target in mind already?

Now, he usually did. Mr. Cheng almost. always did. He said that he would pick. out the person who looked most likely to. give a strong reaction, but not call the. police. That's what he told CD. He said. it's all about the YouTube views. It's. all about the YouTube engagement. That. meant he would go after normal, non-scary, non-intimidating looking. adults. Oh, and here he comes. Don't make it. obvious, but behind you, 5:00, gray suit. jacket, black backpack. Siti reached. behind her and pretended to fiddle with. her bag strap. She glanced up and sure.

enough, there was this kind of. portly-looking man with that was walking. briskly through the airport. He was. stopping to look at the list of. departure gates. She turned back to Mr. Chang. Okay, got it. And the lotion? No, we're going to do oil this time. Here. He takes the bottle out of his bag and. pours a little bit on Siti's hands. She's like, oh god, it's slimy. Well, yeah, don't touch your face or your. clothes with it. It's going to stain. So, go up to him, cover his eyes, and. run away when he turns around. Right now?

In a second. I need to set up the. camera. He's over there somewhere, the. cameraman. But, there's another actress. this time, too. She's going to do the. same thing, but she's going to come up. from the front and cover his mouth. He's. going to think that he's getting. kidnapped. It's going to be so good for. the video. I've got another team at. another cafe location to get all the. angles with another cameraman. Oh, and. you can wash your hands afterwards. There's bathrooms by the doors. Siti looks at her coffee cup that she's. not going to get be able to finish cuz. she's got oil all over her hands now. What a shame. And Mr. Chang's other team consisted of.

two men who are currently at a cafe on. the other side of the airport, and they. were in their places ready for action. On the other side of Terminal 2, Mr. Y. was talking alongside Don and a couple. other North Korean spies keeping a. lookout. Right before 9:00 a.m., all. actors and crew take their places. The. girls are hidden behind columns on. opposite sides of the check-in desk. And. minutes later, when Mr. Chol walks. through the doors, Siti, Don, and all of. the North Korean spies track him with. their eyes.

The girls wait for their signals. Mr. Chang gives the signal. Siti runs out. from behind the pillar and towards Kim. Jong-nam. We're going to call him Don. He turned the other way, but he didn't. see her coming. He just heard her steps, and in less than 3 seconds, he felt a. pair of small hands covering and. smearing oil onto his eyes and face. He's like, "What the hell?". Mr. Y gave the signal that he saw Siti. rush out. Less than a second after Siti, Don approaches Nam. from the front, and she places her hands. on top of his face, almost like a on top.

of his mouth and nose. Why did they need two girls? Is it like. a. Oh, oh, there's a reason. So, after Siti. covers his eyes, and she walks away. saying, "Sorry, sorry.". Mr. Y gives the signal, and Don comes. out from her side of the pillar, which. is now in front of Kim Jong Nam. She. walks up to his face and kind of places. her hand on his face, like covering his. mouth and his nose. And in less than 3. seconds, he felt two pairs of hands just. all over his face, and he has no idea. what the hell is going on.

What's his like reaction? His reaction is like, "What the fork is. wrong with these girls?". So, he's not alarmed? I don't think he's alarmed to the sense. like, "I'm being attacked." I think it. was more of like, like who do these. little girls think they are like messing. with me right now? Mhm. Like, maybe he thought I don't know if. he went as far to think it's a YouTube. video, but I would imagine it's kind of. how we would react of like, "Are we. getting pranked right now? Like, this is. really weird.". Yeah, yeah, okay. They didn't seem like these crazy. assassins. He's not thinking, "Oh my. gosh, they're going to kill me." It's.

just like, "Who are these little girls? Like, what are they doing to my face?". So, he grabs Don's arms cuz she wasn't. able to leave fast enough. Siti was able. to run off, and he's like, "Who are. you?". She's like, "Sorry, sorry." She wiggles. out of his grip and runs away. Siti is. long gone at this point, and the both of. them, they make a beeline for the. nearest bathroom to wash the oil off. their hands. This again is all caught on. CCTV. What the girls didn't know was how close. to death that they were that day.

Instead of baby oil or lotion this time, cuz you were asking, "Why are there two. girls involved?" The chemical on their. hands were two different components of a. chemical called VX, venomous agent X. This sounds like it's out of a Marvel. movie, but it's real. VX is an odorless, tasteless, amber-colored liquid that is. the same density of water, but it's. oily. If you were to see a bottle of it, you would think that it's apple juice. but in oil form. Maybe you would think. it's like dirty frying oil. If you. inhale it, if it touches your skin, if.

it goes into your nervous system in any. way possible, in a matter of minutes, it. breaks the connection between your brain. and your muscles. What does that mean? Suddenly, your body feels like it weighs. 1,000 lb and you cannot move a single. muscle. Your arms and your legs go limp. and you can't even move your diaphragm. So, your diaphragm is what makes you. breathe. The diaphragm sits below just. below your the lungs and it contracts in. and out, which pushes air in and out of. your lungs. But now, with that. paralysis, your diaphragm isn't moving.

and you can't force it open and you. can't force it close. You're suffocating. and you can't move. That's how it kills. you. Mhm. Oh, wow. It's not fun. It's painful. The UN classified VX as a. weapon of mass destruction and. stockpiling more than 3.53. oz. That's a very little amount of it. per year has been internationally. outlawed since 1993. This treaty has been signed by almost. every single country in this entire. planet in the world. It has been used as.

a chemical weapon in a few different. occasions in Cuba, Iraq, Japan, to name. a few. In the Japan attack, Masami, he. was part of the new religious group that. we talked about the subway bombings. Mhm. Uh the subway attacks. He was part of. that religious group, that cult. He. sprinkled VX onto the neck of a. suspected spy. And he killed them. It's pretty bad. Another fun fact about VX, um the US. used to have a stockpile of it until. 1996 when the government banned it cuz. they signed the treaty. So, how did we.

get rid of it? The military employed the. good old chase technique, aka cut holes. and sink them. Chase, aka they filled old boats with. this deadly chemical weapon, pushed it. out deep into the Atlantic, and then. sink the ships. They sink a total of 124. tons of VX into the Atlantic. Jeez. I mean, it's better than using it on. people, right? But I mean, in the. Atlantic? 124 tons? Yeah, I can't even give you a. calculation on how many people 124 tons.

of VX could have killed if it if it was. in the wrong hands. Oh my god, that's horrifying to think. about. Yeah. And uh it's speculated that less. than a pinhead size drop pinhead size. drop can guarantee death. So, think about how much damage 124 I. mean, you could wipe out an entire. nation, maybe even the world. Let me give you a. scarier statistic, okay? North Korea has. somewhere between 2 and 1/2 to 50,000. tons of VX. North Korea has about 45. million times the legal dose allowed to. be held by any country in the world. And.

if you already were kind of questioning. humanity, this is all human-made. It's a. synthetic chemical. It's man-made. Humans are really out here ruining. everything. It is said to be one of the. most toxic, if not the most toxic. substance on Earth in all of history, courtesy of mankind. Siti and Doan were. given a dollop of this substance on. their hands. They were told to go up to. their target and smear it on his face. while they film it. It would be a. hilarious prank for their YouTube. channel, they said. Look, I too was.

wondering, how the hell did these two. girls not plop dead? Like how what? So, think of VX as being able to be broken. down into two components, both in oil. form. So, you have one half of VX, let's. say the V, then you have the X. That's. not how it works, but just to make it. easy to visualize, right? Now, those two. together, deadly. By itself, not deadly. That's freaking crazy. of it as halves. Each girl has half the. formula, and when the two are mixed on. his face, they form from deadly.

combination. So. when Don was the second one touching it, that means she has that thing on her. hand now. Yes, let me explain, okay? So, Siti. would have one component smeared on her. hand that is not lethal. She swipes it. on Kim Jong Nam's face, runs to the. bathroom to wash it off. Don would come. up with the second component, smear it. on his face, combining both of them on. the surface of his face would result in. his death, and also Don would have some. of that residue of deadly VX on her hand.

since she was the second girl to go up. Meaning. she could die, right? How did she not. die? Just pure luck. Pure luck. Siti did not. feel any effects because she did not. have both components. Don on the other. hand had both, but um she just ran to. the bathroom. Both girls said it just. felt really slimy and gross. It was very. unpleasant. It's not even just like oil. on your hands. It's just really nasty. And there was almost like this weird. gassy smell to it. They didn't like it. It sounded like if Don like touch her.

face a bit. Oh. Oh. That's over, right? I mean, game over. So, there was like. two strokes of luck in this situation. So, the first stroke of luck is that Don. saw a bathroom right next to where she. had done this, pretty much. Like on the. other side of the lobby. So, she half. ran towards it, not wanting to look. suspicious. There was no line, which is. usually not a thing at airport. bathrooms. So, she just went right in. and washed her hands. Now, a thing about. VX is that it is very dangerous, okay? But it's also completely able to be. washed off with some good old water. Don.

did not experience more than the tiny. effects of VX because she was able to. wash it off in time. And then the second. stroke of luck was that the skin on your. hands is part some of the thickest skin. that you have on your whole body. So, it. would take much, much longer for it to. seep into her body. Kim Jong Nam would. not have this luck on his side. He felt. the effects within a minute. The. quantity of oil on his face was much. higher than the pin drop lethal dose. And face skin is actually very thin, especially around the eyes is some of.

the thinnest parts of skin on your whole. body. It's been said by experts that the. fastest way to absorb VX into the. bloodstream. would be through eye mucus. You get it a little bit in your eye, your eye is basically an extension of. your brain. Just goes straight into the. bloodstream. So, I guess my question is does he know. at that moment since he's from North. Korea? He had no idea. Because he has 12 vials of the antidote. in his backpack. he have that? He anticipated this?

Yes. He had no clue who these girls. were. He had no clue what they had put. on him. He probably thought it was some. sort of rubbing alcohol or some sort of. acid. If he had known it was VX, he had. 12 vials of the antidote right on his. back and instead of using it, he rushed. to the medical center. That is crazy. Yeah. Wow. So, he's anticipated to run into. this type of scenario during this trip? Not even just this scenario, but he just.

anticipated that his brother would kill. him. Cuz I thought that he thought maybe. North Korea was trying to kill him or. someone who hates North Korea was trying. to kill him. Kim Jong-nam had been telling all of his. friends for the past 6 months prior to. his death that his brother, the North. Korean dictator, was out to get him. But. why would this guy want his brother. dead? Why would Kim Jong-un want his. brother dead? None of this would have. happened if not for Disneyland. You're. like, what the hell does North Korea. have to do with Disneyland?

Just about everything, okay? Kim. Jong-nam, the one that was murdered at. the airport, aka Nam, he had been primed. his whole life to take over. He was the. eldest son of his dad {slash} the former. dictator. He was going to be the next. dictator after his dad. It was his. birthright. At this point, he had gotten. married, he had several kids, he was. being groomed by his dad to take over. So, this is when um Kim Jong-nam is not. the dictator yet. Their father is the. dictator and he's picking out which son. is going to be the heir. And it was most.

likely going to be Nam. He's the eldest. son. He's the firstborn. It just kind of. made sense. But he did have some. problems, okay? So, his mom was his. dad's mistress and she had just recently. defected from North Korea and moved to. Russia, which made things a little bit. tense between. The mom? Yeah, between Kim Jong-nam and his. father. And on top of that, he's not. really impressing his dad at work. He's. a little bit too liberal for his. father's liking. Allegedly, he was. influenced by his education in. Switzerland. Did you know like the whole.

Kim family goes to Switzerland to study? So, like. you would just be going to school with. Kim Jong-un's kids? Yeah, and Kim Jong-un went to. Switzerland to study abroad as a kid, yeah. That is something. Imagine being. classmates with them. Exactly. You don't know that they're the. they're the dictator's kids. So, Switzerland is one of the very few. countries that has a North Korean. embassy. And so, the Kim family would. send their kids and they would pretend. to just be a son of an employee from the. North Korean embassy. And it's said that.

they got along really well with the. South Korean kids. The kids of employees from the South. Korean embassy. So, there's a lot to. unpack here, okay? Lot to unpack. But. it's said that Kim Jong-nam was a little. bit too liberal and he would he would. frequently question North Korea's. political and economic system so much to. the point where his dad, the dictator, was like, "Hey, do you want to I don't. know, spend a week or two in the coal. mines. cuz you're pissing me off. AKA, let me. put you in a concentration camp." So, things were a little bit tense, okay?

But he was still in the line for the. power seat. He was first in line. Until. Disneyland. May of 2001, Kim Jong-nam. took his youngest son to Disneyland. He. only took one son. It was supposed to be. like a father and son bonding day. They. got tickets for Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan, which is a lot closer to North. Korea than like the one in the States. Plus like traveling to the United. States, Kim Jong-nam was pretty radical, but he's not like that crazy. That's. that's freaking insane. So, they get on. the plane, everything's going well. Are they all like secret identity? Yeah, they've got like a million fake.

passports, and they're really good. But. uh he gets arrested at the Tokyo airport. for his fake passport in front of his. son. And it there's so many layers to. how embarrassing this was. It was a. passport from the Dominican Republic, and his name was listed as. Pang Xiong, fat bear in Chinese. In Chinese? You say fat bear in Chinese. Pang Xiong? Yeah, that was his name. And so that. kind of made him a laughing stock of. like, really you got a fake passport and. your name is fat bear? Like it's a it's.

kind of weird. It's you would not expect. that from a dictator family, right? Now, that's not the part that people were. upset about. North Korea was so upset. because Disneyland is the shining jewel, it is the epitome, it is the symbol of. the prosperous capitalism of the Western. world, aka North Korea's greatest enemy. is the Western world. And Disneyland is basically its. little mascot. It doesn't matter if they. were going to Disneyland in Japan. So, this news pissed them off. Yeah, so for the heir to sneak into.

Disneyland with a fake passport under. the name fat bear of all things. is too embarrassing. It's too embarrassing for Kim Jong-il to. take. Kim Jong-il is the dad, right? And. Nam went from heir apparent to disgraced. son in a matter of hours. Had this Disneyland trip never happened, Kim Jong-nam might be the heir and. current supreme leader of North Korea. right now, and he might not have been. killed in an airport for a YouTube prank. video. But because of Disneyland, he. never got his chance at the throne.

Instead, his little half-brother Kim. Jong-un would take over. Now, it's. speculated that Kim Jong-un would have. every reason to want Kim Jong-nam dead. His own brother, his own flesh and. blood, dead. We uh covered a bit of the Kim dynasty. and their wild parties in an episode. covering the kidnapping of a famous. South Korean actress. Do you guys. remember that one? Mhm. It's like um that one was so unhinged. What happens when you have a dictator. that's super into action movies and. wants to make his own movies but fill it. with propaganda for his country that he.

holds hostage? Well, that dictator. kidnaps a South Korean actress and her. director husband to produce films for. him, basically at gunpoint. Unhinged, I can't believe that was real. either. But that's Kim Jong-un's dad, and we're not going to talk about him. too much today, but North Korea is right. now on the third generation of. dictators. First, there was Kim Il-sung, and he was the first one, the man in. power right after the Korean War. When. North Korea became its own country, he. started the dictatorship. He had the the.

throne, the seat of power. Then it was. passed to his son, Kim Jong-il. And the. choice was easy, he had three kids, Kim. Jong-il was the only son, so he won. Kim Jong-il was um not a great guy. Are. we surprised? He was famous for having. multiple children from multiple. partners. Um almost all of his children. are from mistresses, so none of them are. actually from his legal wife, aka the. first lady of North Korea. Even Kim. Jong-un, Really? was a mistress. Kim Jong-nam, his mom.

was a mistress. But he was well known. for a lot of interesting things. Like a. lot of interesting economic choices that. would lead to some of the worst famines. that North Korea has ever seen as far as. we know. Between 200,000 and 3 and 1/2. million citizens starved to death under. his rule. We don't have a more precise number. because North Korea isn't exactly. transparent about that kind of stuff, but also there's alleged torture, human. rights violations, insane propaganda. I. mean, there's a whole deep dive in our. Unnie episode that I will link below,

but. he just didn't seem. he just didn't seem to care about his. people. Of course, he just seemed so. focused on which one of his kids would. take his seat. It's like the real-life. succession, just a lot more fatal and. deadly and terrifying. He thought most. of his kids were not suitable for the. job. On a train to Russia, he got into a. conversation with some fellow passengers. about his kids. What kind of passenger? Uh probably like a North Korean or North. Korean officials and Russian officials. Okay. And like most fathers do, he said,

"My sons are idle blockheads." Which. people thought was humorous cuz they do. have quite square-shaped faces. He said, "My sons are idle blockheads. My. daughters are the ones who have the real. minds, power, and intellect to be in. politics." But misogyny wins because. ultimately the transfer of power would. go to his son and not his daughter. His. youngest son, Kim Jong-un, would be the. next supreme leader. He is the current. reigning dictator over North Korea, which is very interesting because Kim. Jong-un has two older brothers that.

would make more sense to be heir. And. also his younger sister is known to be. the political powerhouse. She's known to. be the deadliest woman in North Korea. She is freaking terrifying. She's said. to be the brains of the regime. She's. said to be the ones pulling the purse. strings behind him. But none of them got. it. He won. Was he just the smartest, most capable, most politically agile? Not really. So, Kim Jong-nam was first. He had the whole Disneyland issue, right? Then Kim Jong-un had a. full-blooded brother that was a couple.

years older than him. And this is like. his full brother, not a half brother. He. was supposed to be next. He's the second. eldest son, but uh Kim Jong-il took one. look at that guy. Uh-huh. and said, "Pass. Just pass." Apparently, and this is a direct quote, "Chul, the. second son, has the warm heart of a. little girl." Yeah, that's what he said. So, apparently the second son went to. the same school in Switzerland that Kim. Jong-nam and Kim Jong-un would go to in. Switzerland. They actually had an aunt. and uncle in Switzerland that would take.

these kids in, send them to school, be their guardians, and then send them back to North Korea. after their schooling. This is also the. Kim's way of getting insight into the. Western world, and allegedly spying. I don't know how much you can spy as. like a high schooler, but yeah, allegedly spying. So, this kid told. everyone that his name was Park. So, the. second son told everyone at school that. his name was Park, and he was the son of. a driver at the North Korean Embassy. And he was um he was really chill. People said that Park would crack jokes. all the time. He had a really cool sense.

of humor, and he was really good friends. with all of the South Korean kids in the. school. Like just he liked video games, he was decent at sports. The only weird. thing about Park that everyone. remembered is that he would never eat. cafeteria food. And the cafeteria food. in Switzerland is not like in the US. Like you're talking fancy boarding. school cafeteria food. You're talking. catering food. He would never eat it. Literally, he would bring his own meals, never touch a single thing of anybody. else's food. Very fascinating. Interesting. Why would you do that? They.

also said that he was a huge pacifist, which is kind of an interesting. philosophy for the son of a North Korean. dictator. In class, he wrote a poem. called A World That I Dream Of. And his. dream world, according to his poem, was. a world without guns, nuclear weapons, wars, terrorists, or religion. Everything was secular and peaceful and. open. Is he still alive? Yeah. Yeah, you would think that he's. not, but he's alive. Because he's not a threat. Their dad.

hated the fact that um he would see his. two sons, his youngest two sons, Park. and Jong-un, and they would play. basketball, right? Which I don't think. most North Koreans can do, but he's part. of the Kim dynasty. She's just saying Jong-un, like Kim. Jong-un? Yeah. Yeah, I I'm just calling him. Jong-un-y, like he's my friend or. something. Yeah, it's weird. Okay, Kim. Jong-un, okay. So, then um the second. son would say things like, "We did good, guys. We did well." after they lose. Meanwhile, Kim Jong-un would rage. And his dad was like, I like that one.

I like the one that's raging. I like the. one that can't process emotions. So, his. dad passed on the second son being the. next leader. Didn't even give him a. Didn't even give the second son a second. glance, okay? But he was fine with it. He never wanted the seat of power. He. just wanted to live his life because at. the end of the day, the Kim dynasty, they're billionaires. So, he's living his dream, traveling the. world, going to Eric Clapton concerts, which is like a blues guitarist. He. plays guitar in a band. He lives in. Pyongyang, and he just tries to steer. clear of his brother's bad side. It's.

said that after Kim Jong-un took power, he's just basically Kim Jong-un's [ __ ]. baby, even though he's his older. brother. And he just likes to use some. money to get some girls and hang out. Kim Jong-un does not even consider him a. threat. Even though technically, he. could challenge his brother's rule. So, if the heir can't be Disneyland Nam, or. chill second son, it's got to be the. only other son. Forget the intelligent, terrifying, frightening daughter, we. need a man. So, Kim Jong-un it is. And. it's said that allegedly, Kim Jong-un's.

mom, who happened to also be a mistress, was the one who tipped the police off in. Tokyo about Nam's fake passport when he. arrived. She allegedly knew that Nam was in line. for succession, and if he was. internationally embarrassed, Kim Jong-il. would never allow him to take over. If. Kim Jong-il chose one of her sons, she. would go from mistress to mother of the. dictator. Also, her bloodline would be. half of the royal bloodline in North. Korea. So, in North Korea, there is no. voting, obviously. Um no one really gets.

to choose which Kim is the most. competent at taking over. As long as you. have 50% of the royal Kim blood, meaning. you are a child of one of the Kim. members, you can go for the throne. You have a. chance. So, that's why even though she's. a mistress, her son can be the next I. don't want to say king, but technically. And I think that she had been eyeing. this for a while now. It said that ever. since Kim Jong-il was born, she would. call him my little general, which is a. scary thing to call your child. And this. isn't that important, but just to give.

you some insight on this guy and how. unhinged his upbringing was. Guards. would be forced to inspect his food, which makes sense in case of an. assassination attempt, but he also had. dedicated guards to handle his toilet. They wouldn't flush it. His dad, the. dictator, was very picky and was very. paranoid that someone would steal his. poop and study it. Like a foreign power. would somehow steal. the poops of his kids. Study. the poop. For what? We don't know. I don't know what you get. out of poop, okay?

So, what are they doing with the poop? I don't know. They had like a secret way. of disposing of their poops. So, regardless, Kim Jong-un takes power, but. there's still other people, other. relatives that could challenge his rule. anytime if they wanted to. Namely, his. brother Kim Jong-nam and his uncle Jang. Song-thaek. Okay, we're going to call. him Uncle Jay. Uncle Jay was Kim. Jong-un's dad's right-hand man, and he. has half the royal blood in him. They. were brothers, after all. But now that. his dad was dead and he was in power,

Kim Jong-un felt really uneasy having. his uncle just hang around. Because. technically, he's got 50% of the royal. blood. He can be the king or whatever. He's got decades of experience in the. government since he was the old. dictator's right-hand man, and people. are familiar with him. There were even. rumors going around that Uncle Jay was. pulling the strings behind Kim Jong-un. So, what does he do? He wants him out of the picture. He. grabs two of Uncle Jay's closest. advisers and publicly executes them with. anti-aircraft guns. These are.

anti-aircraft guns, which means they. have insane range. That means a bullet. comes out of an insanely high speed, and. the bullet itself is hard enough to do. damage to a. like a moving armored metal object. Imagine what it does to a human body. And they publicly executed Uncle Jay's. two closest advisors. They were torn to shreds in front of. everyone. It wasn't even just one. bullet, it was like 50-something. bullets. They were ripped apart. publicly. They kept firing until their.

body was literally combusting into. pieces. In a situation like this, wives would. typically have to gather their remains. off the ground, every single piece, and. bury them in pieces, but they weren't. even allowed to do that. The biggest. insult is that they were taken and. cremated after, which is like a big. thing in North Korea. I guess it's like. an insult. So, Uncle Jay collapsed. during the execution. He fainted from. the stress and grief because yes, those. were probably his two closest friends, but he knew he was next and he knew that. there was no stopping his nephew. There.

was nothing. 10 days after his advisor's. execution, Uncle Jay was arrested. Before this, he was a perfectly healthy. man, but when he was brought out for his. public execution, people saw severe. bruising all around his eyes and his. body, scarred cuts all around his hands. and his mouth. He was allegedly tortured. during his time in prison and the. executioner told the crowd that Uncle. Jay was convicted of treason. They did. not provide any more specifics and/or. proof. They turned the guns on Uncle Jay and.

fired at him for 3 minutes straight. in front of a crowd of people. The crowd literally could not. distinguish Uncle Jay's body from the. piles of dirt and dust around him at the. time that they stopped firing. He had been turned to dust. And in North Korea, if you get arrested, so do your closest family members. After. the execution, Uncle Jay's sister, so. Kim Jong-un's aunt, her husband, and. every single one of their kids were. arrested. Allegedly, Kim just wanted to. wipe out.

all of his side of the family because of. the bloodline, which means claim to the. throne issue. Kim Jong-un no longer had. a threat of his uncle or his uncle's. family taking over. His brother, calm. calm second brother, made it very clear. that he didn't want the throne and Kim. Jong-nam had been disgraced. But. disgraced is one thing and. non-threatening is another. So Kim. Jong-nam, after the whole Disneyland. accident, he had to deal with his dad. His dad would pay him half a million. dollars a year for him to just like roam. about the world and have fun. He would.

just kind of travel from here and there. and he was a little bit more global back. in the day, but once Kim Jong-un, his. little brother, took power, he stayed in. China. There's a whole thing about this. In. 2012, Kim Jong-un put out an. assassination order against Kim. Jong-nam, his half-brother. The only. reason that we know this is because. South Korea's CIA got a hold of this. information. They gave it to South. Korean legislators who then turned. around and told the New York Times. Okay. 2012? Yeah. So like 5 years earlier from his death.

Exactly. Kim Jong-nam wrote a letter to. his brother, the dictator, begging him. to halt the assassination order. Uh the. whole letter was not released, but some. parts say, "Please withdraw the order to. punish me and my family. We have nowhere. to hide. There is no way out except to. choose. to end it ourselves.". So by this point, he's pretty much. stationed in China. Kim Jong-nam has. nowhere else to go but China. He cannot. go back to North Korea because his. little brother dictator is probably. going to kill him the minute that he. steps foot in there and everywhere else.

is not that safe. So compared to the. rest of the world, China treats North. Korea. cordially. and vice versa. China is also a very. strong, formidable enemy. So Nam hoped. that he was safe there because his. brother his brother had a fear of. pissing off China and if he went into. China and assassinated Kim Jong-nam in. China, you think Chinese government would be. like, "Oh, yeah. Go on ahead. Do whatever you want.". They'd be pretty freaking pissed. Kim.

Jong-nam was hiding in China, in Macau, China to be exact, but there were a. couple other family members that were in. hiding. So there were some that defected. to Russia. These are like direct family. members, not just like North Korean. defectors. But, um a couple in the. United States. Yeah, the US is a big. place, okay? They will shield you, and. just like China, it would be very, very. difficult for the North Korean dictator. to come into the US and kill their. family member if they wanted to, allegedly. So, remember the aunt and. uncle in Switzerland that would watch. all of the Kim Kim's kids while they.

went to school in Switzerland? Well, they decided that they didn't want. anything to do with it anymore. Um I I. don't really know. I feel like there. must have been something that happened. or. something that instigated this or I. don't know. Cuz while they are taking. care of Kim Jong-un, so this guy's a. teenager right now. He's in their Swiss. house, going to the Swiss boarding. school. They pack their bags in the. middle of the night, take their kids, and dip. They leave Kim Jong-un to wake. up so confused what the hell had. happened. They actually ended up flying.

to the US, um getting help from the CIA. to stay hidden. They went to the US. Embassy, requested asylum. US granted it. to them. They are now currently living. in New York City. They've been. completely anonymous, um just until a. recent interview with the Washington. Post. They will not share their new. names or their faces, but we do know. that they're running a dry-cleaning. business, and they're getting ready to. pass it on to their kids after they. retire. None of them want a single thing to do. with their cousins or their nephew's. regime. And it's speculated that's why.

Kim Jong-un constantly threatens to blow. up Manhattan because he hates his aunt. and uncle. But, besides that Washington. Post interview, they have stayed dead. silent. Even in the Washington Post, they really didn't say anything. They. just said, "We want nothing to do with. North Korea. We're just trying to move. on with our lives." That's pretty much. it. On the other hand, Kim Jong-nam in. China. wasn't laying as low. I don't think that. he was instigating anything. I don't. think he was poking the bear, but he. would travel around Europe, and in.

Paris, I believe, he was stopped by a. bunch of paparazzi who were like. reporters and journalists who were. asking like, "What do you think about. what your brother just did? What do you. think about your brother being in power? What do you think about North Korea. right now?" And for the most part, Kim. Jong-nam did not talk to them. On the. few occasions that he did talk to them, however, he always truthfully expressed. his opinion and it was almost always. negative. So, for Nam to put his own. negative opinion out there was a very. dangerous thing to do and I'm not. exactly sure why he did that. Maybe he wanted to get the truth out.

there somehow to help the citizens or I. don't know, maybe he thought that his. brother was just like a little brother. Like, whatever, little tongseng, I can. say what I want. I have no idea. What did he say? He would just say things like, "Yeah, I. don't like what's going on over there. It's crazy." It caught up to him though. Six months before his death, he told his. friends that he was afraid for his life. He believed his brother wanted to kill. him. So, this is in 2017. His brother. originally wanted to kill him in 2012, remember? But for some reason, he chose. not to. Maybe he felt like Kim Jong-nam.

was pathetic and not a threat to his. throne, just hiding out in China. Was it. because of what he said to the press or. the paparazzi? I literally can't believe. that I'm talking about North Korean. paparazzi right now. Probably not. The. speculation is that allegedly, in 2017, Kim Jong-nam started working with the. CIA. Why do people think that? During. Kim Jong-nam's vacation in Malaysia, he. flew to a resort island in the northern. part of Malaysia and checked into a. Westin Hotel. It is worth noting that a. Westin Hotel is a very American hotel. chain that is a branch of the Marriott.

Hotels, a very American company. CCTV. camera caught him getting into an. elevator with a man that North Korea. suspected to be a CIA employee. They had a 2-hour meeting in Malaysia. Between him possibly working with the. CIA and badmouthing North Korea to the. media, there is more than enough motive. for Kim Jong-un to hypothetically, allegedly, I'm not saying this is true, want his brother dead. So, I'm not. saying he did it, but hypothetically, how would he go about something like. this, right? How would he go about doing. something like this? Kim Jong-un is said to be one for.

theatrics. I mean, look at the way that. he executed his own uncle. And we know. that his brother Nam was safe in China. And if he was working with the CIA, maybe Nam felt some sort of protection. from them, too. So, Kim Jong-un needed. to move quickly because what if Kim. Jong-nam was getting ready to be moved. to the US? He needed the perfect plan to. kill him publicly so the whole world. would know, not just Kim Jong-nam, but. it would send out a message. This is. what a lot of experts believe. It would. send out the message. An enemy of North. Korea is not safe anywhere, anytime, or. with anyone, even if you work with the.

CIA. Allegedly, Kim Jong-un hatched his. assassination plot, and everything that. I'm about to say is alleged, by the way. There were eight North Korean spies that. were part of the assassination plot. Now, if a North Korean spy killed Nam, it would be too obvious who did it, and. maybe Nam would even suspect a spy. They. move different. He knew what to look out. for in a North Korean spy. He'd be. ready. He'd know exactly how to react. He had vials of the antidote. He would. probably take the antidote right away. Now, for a job like this, hypothetically, they would need someone. that was unassuming, someone that could. be easily looked over, someone that Nam.

would never be suspicious of. Woman. Average, gullible, easy to blend in. woman were the orders given to the. spies. Now, I'm not saying that today's two. women are these things, but at this. stage in their lives, I would say that. they weren't as established in their. careers or their social circles yet. They're quite vulnerable. Now, set the scene. They can't just kill. Nam in China. It would be a diplomatic. nightmare. And China is the only. country, really, that North Korea really. cares about because of their trade. relationship. When Nam flew to Malaysia,

it was the perfect time. Which side. note, North Korea doesn't have a bad. relationship with Malaysia, either. So, Malaysia is one of those countries who. aren't specifically hostile towards. North Korea. Like the US is specifically. hostile. South Korea is specifically. hostile, you know? Um Malaysia is not. They actually have a North Korean. embassy in Malaysia. So, getting the. spies into Malaysia, super easy. But. killing Nam in the dark in his hotel. room would be. boring. Would it even make international news? Wow.

even really talk about it? Would people. Would it instill fear in enemies'. hearts? Probably not. They would have to. do it public in broad daylight in the. middle of an airport where you genuinely. feel a sense of security because there's. so many people. There's so many people. who have places to go that don't care. about you. There's so many cameras. The rough sketch of the hypothetical. alleged don't kill me plan goes like. this. One of the eight North Korean. spies that were tasked with Nam's. assassination would go and recruit. actresses. Uh the real situation was.

that three of them did, right? James, Mr. Chang, Mr. Y. They would need two actresses because of. the two components of the VX. They. already had this all planned out. They. will tell the girls that they have a. YouTube prank channel that's rapidly. growing and they need actresses to help. carry out some of these pranks. They. will do a few test pranks throughout the. month or two months and they will pay. the girls for all of this. They will. continue to do the tests and amp it up. and make their story believable. Then. they will move on to the real target, the North Korean dictator's brother, a.

man who could challenge the reign of. power. Each of the eight spies had a. role to play. The recruiter will meet. with the girls, meeting them, briefing. them. Others will monitor the target, keep an eye on on his whereabouts. Another one would be waiting just. outside the doors in a car just in case, and another one would secure all of them. a seat on a flight that would leave the. country immediately afterwards. Not the girls, though. The girls didn't. get a seat on the flight. The girls will. just have to go down as the highly. trained, politically motivated, evil. assassins that took down the North.

Korean Kim family member. Because I mean, they're the ones putting. oil on his face in broad daylight, caught on CCTV camera. So they had to go down for it. It only. made sense. After Nam went to the. airport medical center, he passed out. and was rushed to the local hospital. One interesting thing to note is during. the commotion going on, like no one. knows that Kim Jong Nam is in the. airport medical center dying right now. No one's even walking by the medical. center except for a man with a black. suitcase is walking by the window. non-stop trying to peer in. It's said.

that he is probably one of the North. Korean spies to see if it was. successful. So, authorities very quickly find out. what had killed this man. VX had killed. him. They waited 9 days to announce it. to the public and the general public had. no idea what VX was. But this. assassination into the international. spotlight along with the suspicion that. North Korea had a huge stockpile of VX. Side note, North Korea was a very upset. that Malaysia did an autopsy on Nam. He. said that Nam was their citizen and. Malaysia had no right. They said.

Malaysia had committed a violation on. human rights for conducting an autopsy. on one of their citizens without their. consent. Wow. And the whole world said, "I'm not. really sure if North Korea is in the. position to make human rights. complaints." So, Malaysia fired back and. said, "Well, he died on our soil, so we. have every single right and we will. gladly send his body back to his country. or to his family after the autopsy is. fully done.". Same, Malaysia? Yeah, 9 days after the death, the.

Malaysian police reported a suspected. break-in to the mortuary where Nam's. body had been held. Is the body taken or. No, but uh. Oh. Yeah. 6 days after that, North Korea. publicly announced that VX was not the. cause of Nam's death. They said that he. died of a heart attack evidenced by his. history of cardiac issues. That's crazy. Like everything's on. camera. Yeah, but they're like, "No, not in this. country, okay?". So, Malaysia was not having it. On March. 2nd, they sent the North Korean. ambassador an eviction notice, basically. They told him he had less.

than 48 hours to leave the country. unless he wanted to be arrested. No. Then they banned visa-free entry for. North Korean citizens. The next day. North Korea retaliated by banning any. and all Malaysian citizens from leaving. North Korea, effectively trapping them. there. No. Then Malaysia did the same thing, trapping any North Koreans in Malaysia. There were nine Malaysian citizens in. North Korea and an estimated 300 North. Koreans in Malaysia. None of them were. allowed to go home. The ban was relatively short. By the end. of the month it was lifted. But Malaysia.

and North Korea, they lifted the travel. bans and they sent Nam's body back to. North Korea along with his clothes and. some other belongings. On the very same day, four North Korean. men, four of the eight spies, James, the. North Korean ambassador, and two others, they were on the same flight back to. North Korea. Just like that. So they all got away. All got away. There's very little known. about these men. Um all we know is that. they're in their 30s, 40s, 50s. They're. North Korean spies. They made it safely.

to North Korea and it's speculated that. nothing happened to them. They still. have their ranks and positions. Nothing happened to them at all. They just got on a plane and left. Meanwhile, as far as Siti and Doan knew, they weren't even arrested the same day. for the murder. They walked straight out. of the airport after washing their. hands. They got out. They were looking. for the spies or they were looking for. their handler. So basically the. YouTubers. That's who they're looking. for. They can't find them. And they're. thinking, "Okay, well maybe the the man.

got mad. So maybe they had to leave. Maybe the security guards came. They. were chased off the premise. Either way, it's fine. It's happened before. Typically I'll go home and they'll reach. out to me again when they're ready to. film another prank." So both of them. went home. The two women went separately. home. They're not suspicious at all. They don't even know who the guy that. they just touched all over the face was. They waited for the next call for. another prank. Meanwhile, the police are. combing through the airport security. footage. They're working around the. clock to identify and locate the women. Airport security footage showed them.

running up to Nam and putting their. hands on him. And it also caught them. running to the bathroom afterwards. They. get clear images of these girls' faces, and now all they had to do was find. them. Two days after the attack, Don gets a. text message from Mr. Y. He said that. the video at the airport had done so. well that he wanted to film the exact. same one at the exact same place. He. told her to meet him at the airport in. Malay. Don got dressed, did her makeup for the.

cameras, slipped on the same pair of. shoes, waited at the airport, he never. showed up. Oh my god. showed up. She texted him, and it said, "Text message cannot be delivered to. this number." So, she tried calling him, number wasn't going through. She waited. a while, and then she decided to leave. She didn't even make it out of the. airport parking lot or the little. entrance area. The taxi was stopped by. the airport police and suddenly Don, she's Vietnamese, all she knew are these. people screaming at her demanding her. answers in Malay. She doesn't speak the.

language. She's confused. Why are they. so upset? Why are they so upset at her? Why? these men in uniform yelling at her? Have I done something wrong? This poor girl is like. I can't even begin. Malaysian police had arrested her and. taken a mugshot photo of her. She still. had no idea why they were doing this. Meanwhile, Siti had gone back to. Indonesia and was in her room with her. roommate when the police came for her. They barged down the door. "Where were. you Friday February 13th?". What?

February I was at the airport with my. boss, Mr. Chang. They brought her in, asked her more questions, and with every. she could not answer, she just saw them. get angrier and angrier and more. frustrated, and it was just she was so. confused. Like, why do you care about. what little old village girl me was. doing on the freaking 13th? Like, I. don't even work for a big corporation. Like, what I don't work for the. government. What's going on? And they're. like, "Who's your boss?". Mr. Chang. "Oh, yeah? Mr. Chang? Why. don't you call Mr. Chang?" So, he's. like, "Okay. Yeah, fine." She pulls out.

her phone and dials his number and there. were three beeps and the automated voice. said, "I'm sorry, this number is no. longer available. Goodbye.". The police turned to her and they were. smiling. So, the police, they went in. with the presumption that this is like a. North Korean spy. Oh. You know, not like a little old girl who. has no idea what's going on, but. probably a spy who's acting like they. have no idea what's going on. Mhm, so they think they caught a big.

fish. Mhm, yeah. And she's like, "No, no, no, please, I was just texting him. I swear. I have all the messages. Who are you? Are you a spy?" And she's like, "A spy? This is the last thing on her mind. You've arrested me because. you think I'm a spy? Like, maybe I ran a. red light, but you think you think I'm a. spy? No, abso- What are you. That doesn't even make sense.". And they're explaining to her, "What did. you do at the airport at the man with. the man who died?". This is when she finds out. The man's.

face that she touched, that man, he. died. They said, "You were involved in a. premeditated murder of a president's. brother. You are under arrest for first-degree. murder.". Siti was so confused that she thought. she was being pranked. For a hot minute, she genuinely believed. that this was a new YouTube video and. she was now the person that was being. pranked. So, she even let out a couple nervous. laughs which only pissed off authorities.

even more. She even straight-up asked at one point, like, "Is this a prank?". And she kind of looked around for. cameras and the guys in uniforms were. looking at her like she was absolutely. insane. She found out that it was not a. prank when she was dragged to her cell. She glanced to her right and she saw the. face of the other actress that had been. there two days ago at the airport and. that just cemented in her mind, "Wait a. minute, it probably is a prank then, right?". Wait, where are they now? In jail. Where? In Malaysia. Oh, oh, she got pulled back. Oh, wow.

So then she's like, "Okay, maybe it is a. prank because the other actress is. here." That night, I mean, she went. through a roller coaster of emotions. That night she realizes, "Okay, there's. no way it's a prank because I'm still in. here. No one's here. There's no cameras. Mr. Chang is not popping out of the. woodwork. I'm still sitting in prison.". And back at home, her parents had the. scare of their lives. Not only were. these two girls, their mugshots blasted. internationally and they were being. called female assassins. Her family was so understandably.

confused, heartbroken, and frightened. They did not believe for a single second. that she was a female assassin. But in. the span of a few days, they've added up about everything, the. crime, the arrest, the paperwork, everything. And their hearts broke. They weren't. even mad. They just Their hearts broke. for their daughter. Both girls were kept. side by side in secluded cells away from. the general population because they were. awaiting trial. And if convicted, they. could be sentenced to death. So in. America, death penalty cases are long. They're drawn out, increasing the time.

that the prisoners can appeal. In. Malaysia, the death sentence is. I don't want to say, but like the way. that it's described online is more or. less automatic. So if convicted, the. chance of execution is a lot more of a. guarantee than in America. Whereas in. America, even if you're convicted and. you're sentenced to death, there's so. many appeals, there's so many states who. don't, you know, execute anymore. First-degree murder in Malaysia, the. automatic punishment oftentimes is death. penalty. And executions are often.

carried out not secretly, but with no. legal responsibility on the government's. part to let the prisoner or their family. know. It's normal for you to get a 2-day. heads-up that you're going to be. executed. So it's very hard to appeal, whereas there's a lot of appealing in. the US. So these girls are straight-up. staring death in the face. And if they. were to be executed, the guards would. lead them to the gallows, tie sandbags. to their feet, and push them off the. ledge. Like. hanging. I don't even know how someone can.

process that. It just feels so unreal. Everything just doesn't feel real. And like the the YouTube prank element. just It almost feels like a. like an SNL skit. It. Yeah. It's not even It doesn't feel real. It. feels so fake and so caricatured and. like contrived. It It's bizarre. The. joint trial began October of 2017, and. both of the girls pleaded not guilty, and they stuck to their story about I. genuinely thought this was a YouTube.

prank. The Indonesian and Vietnamese. governments hired defense teams for both. of the girls. Now, this is where it gets. crazy and a lot of politics gets. involved. The prosecution started off. with there is no evidence of a political. plot. It's not important for us to. prove. So, that was already setting the. tone of we are not trying to prove. someone else did it. All we know, and. they kept stating, "We have this. evidence that you guys touched his face. with chemicals on your hands, and he. died." They're just saying like.

"We don't have proof that or evidence. that Kim Jong-un killed his brother or. ordered his brother to be killed, but we. have proof that you guys smeared his. face with VX.". They also argued that it was. premeditated as the girls had been. practicing for this for a month in. advance by smearing other people's faces. with baby oil and baby lotion. They said. that the girls must have known that the. was toxic because they went to the. bathroom immediately to wash their. hands. CCTV cameras also show them going. to the bathrooms without touching. themselves, their clothes, or their. belongings. In fact, their hand is like.

pretty far away from the rest of their. body, but the girls argued, "We were. told that it was going to stay in our. clothes.". Like what kind of person wants to. actively stay in your clothes? There's. CCTV evidence of them committing the. crimes. There's also evidence, allegedly, that. they had VX byproducts on Siti's shirt. People were confused by this, okay? So, CD was the one that went first. So, she. should only have one component of VX, but they were alleging that she had both. components on her shirt. And on top of. that, her shirt was destroyed.

accidentally after it tested positive. for VX. So, at the opening statements, I. mean, the prosecutors made their. statement and one journalist in the. audience remembered writing down in his. notebook just a single line. He was. there to take notes on all of this. He. just wrote, they are. The girls? Yeah. Because it looks like everyone has made. up their minds on how this is going to. go right now. CD's defense pointed out. all the inconsistencies with her wanting. to kill someone. CD had documented all. of her meetings with James. She thought.

she was showing the behind the scenes of. her actress life. She documented. extensively. Why would she record her. work if she knew that she was working as. an assassin and exposing a North Korean. spy? Like, what the hell? CD's shirt that was also said to have. VX, like, why was it missing now? Why. can you not find it? And she shouldn't. have VX because she was the first one to. touch his face. Doan's defense team, who was hired by. the Vietnamese government, they also. sent two Vietnamese ambassadors as. translators. They said that she didn't. touch anything with her hands. afterwards, not because she knew it was.

VX, but because she didn't want to get. her clothes dirty. And she came back to. the scene of the crime two days later. for another video. If she truly did know. that she had killed a man and a. dictator's brother, you think that. returning to the scene of the crime just. so happens to be on her to-do list? Yeah. With her security guards, people, police. officers, international law enforcement. where a murder had just taken place and. CCTV cameras, like, you think that's. something that she would like to do? Meanwhile, they also pointed out the. North Korean spies that they worked with. changed their clothes and fled the scene. quickly. Four of the eight had left the.

country two hours of the after the. incident. The other four waited for Kim. Jong Nam's body. Yeah. Oh, they're taking the body. Yeah. Meanwhile, these two girls, they. didn't really have any sort of escape. plan. They weren't in a rush to get. anywhere. They went back home. They were. just doing regular things. So, there seems to be a lot of. speculation um. that Malaysia did not necessarily want. to accuse Kim Jong-un of murdering his. brother. And it's not just Malaysia. I.

don't want anyone to come after Malaysia. because internationally, no one was. People were connecting the dots. People. were saying alleged, but no one was. like, "Hey, that it we should put them. on trial. We should bring the spies.". Everyone was just kind of like, "We. think that it was um an inside job.". Malaysia's economy took a massive hit. after this, which again. they didn't want to be involved. Why are. they involved in this, right? Their. airport was turned into an international. crime scene. It just sucked as a whole.

Their citizens were impacted by. something that they had no part of. It. was an international diplomatic. nightmare. Side note, North Korea was. not being tried. I just want to make. that very clear, but they did hire an. infamous Malaysian defense attorney who. would show up to the trial and basically. state from A to Z, this case is the. product of reckless moves of the United. States and South Korean authorities. Mhm? And everyone was like, "What?" So, they're basically saying that the US and. South Korea are spreading propaganda. that Kim Jong-un was involved.

They're trying to tarnish North Korea's. image and bring down its social system. I suppose they just wanted a voice in. the matter. North Korea refused to admit. that Kim Jong-nam was related to Kim. Jong-un in any way. They also said in. any official reports or any official. statements that he was just a North. Korean citizen. That's how they referred. to him. They also deny everything about. the eight spies. So, both of the girls, they're standing on the ledge between. life and death for something that they. didn't. even do technically, right? Maybe. I. don't know legally. Like, they didn't. even claim that they knew that they were.

doing that. And these two girls, they. became sisters in the cells. They were. right next to each other and they don't. speak the same language. Siti didn't. even know Dhoan's name. She just knew. that she came from Hanoi, Vietnam, so. she called her Noi. And anytime they would have their lunch. or their dinner delivered to their. cells, she would call out, "Siti!" And. then she would say, "Noi, I'm here. Let's eat.". And they would eat their meals together. Dhoan said, "Only I understand her and. only she understands me.

We became sisters. We became best. friends. When we were together, I felt. her heart.". Siti said that those two years in. prison, they were in prison for two. years during the trial, were probably. the darkest times of her life. She said. that she prayed almost every day to go. back to her home country and nobody knew. what was going to happen. After two very long years, Siti was. released and all charges were dropped. It came out of nowhere. It Siti was not. expecting it. It was.

blindsided, honestly. She thought that. she was going to go back to jail with. Noi with Dhoan, but she wasn't. So, it. turns out the Indonesian government did. not really care about North Korea. They. didn't really care about their. diplomatic relations. Um they made a few. lucrative negotiations with Malaysia and. the Indonesian president had personally. gotten involved in these negotiations. But when it was all said and done, Siti. walked out of the courtroom as a free. woman. Dhoan, on the other hand, had to. return to prison that night. She had to. wear a bulletproof vest on her way. because her lawyers were afraid of North.

Korea's retaliation against Siti's. release. Her lawyer said, "In all my 37 years of. law, not once was my client required to. wear a bulletproof vest.". In these type of situation, you are just. a grain of sand in this this case. You're just. And it's, you know, all these. governments are trying to protect. international relationships, which I. understand because no one wants a war, no one wants an attack, cuz that would. be more people in harm. But the fact. that you are just collateral. Whatever.

happens to you to maintain the status. quo is not important. And the only. reason that Siti got out was because. Indonesia did not care to have a. relationship with North Korea. So, they. put a lot on the line and negotiated. with Malaysia. Vietnam, on the other. hand, they weren't as in a lucky. position. I have no doubt that Vietnam. wanted to help Don as much as they. could, but I think that they were afraid. of making North Korea angry. And I think that each country has their. own very sensitive relationships with.

different countries and it was just very. hard. So, they couldn't work as hard. They still paid for all of her legal. defense attorneys and all of that, but. they just couldn't go out and be so. brazen. And uh finally, the judge. released the sentence. Don would plead. guilty and she would be sentenced to 3. years and 4 months in prison. This is a much lesser charge than what. she was looking at, which was. first-degree premeditated murder, which. would probably come with the death. penalty. She was also allowed parole after. serving the majority of her sentence.

So, after the trial, she spent a little. over 2 years in prison. She got out of. month after her verdict. She went back. home and she was finally a free woman. And side note, this is freaking crazy, but uh both of the girls knew that they. probably killed someone important. They. did not know they killed Kim Jong-nam's. brother until after the trial. So, during the entire trial, they still went. by the fake passport name, his alias, Mr. Chol. Why? I don't know. I guess maybe the girls. weren't supposed to I don't know why. It.

was all out in international news, but. because they were in prison, they were. not told. Very strange, but Siti said. when she got out of prison, she was told. that it was Kim Jong-nam's brother and. she just didn't even know how to process. that information. She did not know that she had. unwillingly murdered the half-brother to. the most powerful man in North Korea and. potentially one of the scariest men in. the entire world. And as for Kim Kim. his wife and children, were in China. It is speculated maybe.

they're in the US now under witness. protection. I don't know where they are, okay? But, um. Kim Jong-nam's son went on an interview. a couple days after Kim Jong-nam's. death, which is insane. But, he said, "My father had been killed a few days. ago. I'm currently with my mom and. sister.". My father has been killed few days ago. I'm currently with my mother and my. sister. He talked about his childhood and gave. his thoughts on North Korea. He said that he dreams of unification of. Korea. He said he one day wants to go.

back to North Korea and improve the. social and living environments of North. Korean citizens. He said that when he. was in Macau and studying abroad, he. made a lot of friends from South Korea. and he talked about how after. learning about their life experience in. their country, he supports South Korea. He's friends with South Koreans and that. has made him change his own political. beliefs. He's saying this only a few days after. his father was allegedly assassinated by. North Korea for doing the same exact. thing. So, um. very scary. A lot of people like him.

though. Some people are cheering him on. and calling him the prince of North. Korea and they hope that he will become. the next president of North Korea and. steer the country in a good direction. since he seems to have a rational mind. to weigh arguments from both sides. And. I'm not sure if we should encourage that. because it seems like any leader of. North Korea has a history of. assassinating potential threats to their. power. But, people do believe that Kim Han-sol, the son, is being shielded by the CIA. and is in witness protection in the. United States. But, I don't know. Nobody knows why he.

came out into that interview. Some. people think that he wants to come out. and tell his uncle, "I'm alive and well. and you can't get me." It's just a very, very dangerous thing to do. Kim Jong-un. has no apparent heir as of right now, though he reportedly does have a son. He. has also debuted his daughter multiple. times during like a. like nuclear test of all places. She's. 10. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people think. that Kim Man Tor could be a strong. contender for the throne. And.

we see what happens when that happens. So, there's just so much craziness in. today's story. I don't even know where. to put this, but it's also speculated. that Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Un never. met in person. The two brothers, they. never met in person. So, apparently the. Kims practice the ancient tradition of. raising potential successors separately. They never let them meet even if they're. brothers or half brothers. It's said the. brothers were kept apart for most of. their lives. I don't know about the. second brother and Kim Jong Un, maybe. they met when they were like in high. school. But for a good chunk, they don't meet.

Some sources say all of that's a lie and. they met once at the father's funeral. Some people say no, they went to the. father's funeral separately. and did not run into each other, but I. guess only the brothers know if they've. met, but it doesn't seem like we have. any solid proof that they have. Which would make this even more bizarre. This is the story of how two girls, thinking that they were going to be. YouTubers, killed the brother of one of. the most terrifying dictators on the. entire planet right now. You might be. wondering why the hell didn't I hear. about it or why do I only have a vague.

recollection of this? Same. Did North. Korea wipe the story from all media. outlets? Actually, the United States did. that, but not even on purpose. They. didn't mean to, of course. This crime. happened 1 month into Trump's term as. president. And since he had won by. electoral vote rather than by popular. vote, it made his whole presidency very. historic. And as you guys know, there. was so much conversation surrounding it. and so much controversy surrounding his. presidency. So, it was all kind of. drowned out. It was like front page news. for like a second and then everything.

else was about Trump. Oh, wow. So, I think that's why a lot of people. don't talk about it or maybe they're. scared and maybe I'm an idiot and I'm. like putting my life on danger right. now. The girls seem to be doing good now. though. They gave a few interviews. Um. they're working to try and retire their. parents and cope with the new reality. Don is back in Vietnam and her village. had surprised her with this huge party. when she got back, but they still keep. in touch. And they refer to each other. as their sisters. CD still calls Don.

Noi, a reminder of where it literally. felt like just the two of them against. the world and they said that their bond. is unbreakable. And that is the very, very terrifying. case of today. What are your thoughts? I don't even know what to say. I didn't. know what like the full extent. I think. I got bits and pieces like when it was. unfolding, I kept hearing like female. assassins. So I thought, okay, female. North Korean spies. And then it started. unfolding more and I was like, okay, I. don't know what's truth and what's fact.

because when people would say, oh, I. think it was for a YouTube video cuz it. was talked a little bit more in South. Korea, obviously in the news. Like I. think it they thought it was for like a. video or some sort of like variety show. I was like, that sounds like an urban. legend. That sounds like a conspiracy or. a lie. No. What are your thoughts? Please stay. safe. I guess for this episode, I'll say. that to myself. Please stay safe. And I will see you guys on Sunday for. the mini-sode. Bye.