In 2017, Mr. Kim’s half brother, Kim Jong-nam, was assassinated in an apparent hit at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. In a different step to buttress loyalty, Mr. Kim has elevated the ...

Kim Jong Un’s security team scrupulously inspected his chair and wiped it down with disinfectant before he could sit at Putin’s summit. Video footage published by te Kommersant newspaper on ...

Apparently Kim Jong Un's security detail - of over 100 people - were unhappy with the first chair and another one - exactly the same - was produced by the Russian side, Kommersant said.

Amid new reports suggesting he had a relationship with the CIA, revisit the life and death of Kim Jong-nam, his engagement with the West, and his public criticism of his half-brother, Kim Jong-un.

Kim Jong Nam, who was attacked with a deadly nerve agent in a Malaysian airport in 2017, was in the country to meet with his CIA handler, according to The Wall Street Journal and a new book.

Kim Jong Nam, who was killed in Malaysia in February 2017, was a Central Intelligence Agency source who met on several occasions with agency operatives, a person knowledgeable about the matter said.

When the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was assassinated in a crowded Malaysian airport last February, he carried in his bag the antidote to the poison that killed him.

New developments are bolstering suspicions that the killing last week of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korea’s mercurial dictator, was a well-orchestrated plot directed from Pyongyang.

Mr. Kim, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, was attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 on Feb. 13 by two women while waiting to board a flight to Macau. He died on ...