A former editorial writer for the Tokyo Shimbun, he is best known for his interviews with Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un’s estranged half brother who was assassinated in Malaysia in 2017. Gomi traces Ko’s ...

Upbringing: Kim Jong Nam was the eldest son of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who died in 2011, and was at one time considered the heir apparent to rule the isolated country, which has ...

The relationship between Jong-un and Jong-nam has, put simply, long been tumultuous and volatile. In 2001, Jong-nam – the oldest son of Kim Jong-il – was the most likely successor to his father.

As the first son of Kim Jong Il, the late leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Nam always posed a threat to Kim Jong Un, his half brother and North Korea’s current leader.

A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape ...

Kim Jong Nam, who was likely 45 or 46 years old, was the eldest son of the late Kim Jong Il, the second-generation leader in the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea since its founding in 1948.

Kim Jong Nam was trying to check into a flight when he was squirted in the face with fast-acting poison. One of his suspected killers actually wore a shirt that read “LOL. ...

Kim Jong Nam, who had lived in exile for more than a decade, was also known to have maintained contacts with the once powerful Jang Song-thaek and Kim Kyong-hui.

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.

There are no signs that Kim Jong Nam harbored ambitions to return to North Korea or had encouraged the overthrow of the current regime. Yet he could never escape the assumption by many outsiders ...

Kim Jong-Nam, son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, getting off a bus to board an airplane at Narita airport near Tokyo, May 4, 2001. Toshifumi Kitamurato/AFP/Getty Images ...

Kim Jong Nam, 45, was Kim Jong Il’s eldest son and heir apparent until 2001, when he was caught trying to use a false Dominican passport to enter Japan and visit Tokyo Disneyland.