Why does Malaysia, which acknowledges Kim Jong Nam is Kim Jong Un's half-brother, make the outrageous demand that Kim's body won't be released to North Korea until a close family member provides a sample of their own DNA? [7]
From what we are told, the story does not add up.
Ri Tong-il asked in his same statement "Why is South Korea trying so hard [to blame the DPRK] in this instance? They have a great political crisis inside South Korea [which is quite true] and they need to divert people's attention," noting also that the two women involved traveled to South Korea and that South Korea blamed the North for murder by VX the very day it happened.
Ri Jong-choi, the released North Korean, "accused police of threatening to harm his family unless he confessed to the killing of the half brother of North Korea's leader, calling it a plot to tarnish his country's honor".Police never said what they believed Ri's role was in the attack." [8]
"He also said Malaysian authorities told him at one point that if he confessed his guilt he would be able to stay in Malaysia." [9]
Stephen Lendman also gives a possible explanation:
"North Korean senior representatives were preparing to come to New York to meet with former US officials, a chance for both sides to discuss differences diplomatically, hopefully leading to direct talks with Trump officials.
The State Department hadn't yet approved visas, a positive development if arranged.
Reports indicate North Korea very much wanted the meeting to take place. Makes sense. It would indicate a modest thaw in hostile relations, a good thing if anything came of it.
So why would Pyongyang want to kill Kim Jong-nam at this potentially sensitive time, knowing it would be blamed for the incident, talks likely cancelled?
Sure enough, they're off, Pyongyang accused of killing Kim, even though it seems implausible they planned and carried out the incident, using agents in Malaysia to act as proxies." [10]
Possibly North Korean leader Kim Jong Un decided to murder his apolitical brother, choosing to do so by using a banned highly toxic agent in public, under video cameras in a crowded airport of a friendly country? Instead of say, doing it by easier means in the North Korean Embassy's guesthouse in Kuala Lumpur, where the New York Times said his brother sometimes stayed [11] ?
We are not supposed to doubt what we are spoon fed, that Kim Jong Un is some irrational war-mongerer who has instituted a reign of terror. A safer bet is this is a new attempt to beat the drums of war against North Korea and its allies.
Stansfield Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity
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