AP: South Korea agencies can't confirm Kim brother as CIA source

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South Korea agencies can't confirm Kim brother as CIA source

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea — Jun 11, 2019, 5:28 AM

South Korean agencies said Tuesday they could not confirm a report that the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was a U.S. intelligence source and had traveled to Malaysia to meet his CIA contact before being assassinated there in 2017.

Officials at South Korea's National Intelligence Service and Unification Ministry, which oversees ties with North Korea, said they couldn't confirm Monday's report by The Wall Street Journal, which attributed the details to an unidentified "person knowledgeable about the matter."

It's extremely difficult for outside governments and media to verify information about North Korea and members of its secretive ruling family because Pyongyang closely watches visitors and enforces a stringent information blockade on its citizens. Outside media have a checkered history of relying on sources purporting to reveal secret information about the North that's later proven incorrect or incomplete.

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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/south-korea-agencies-confirm-kim-brother-cia-source-63624561

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1. Background report on this subject matter

I wrote this April 20th based on prior South Korean news broadcast programs:

The legend continues; here's your burn notice

https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-legend-continues-heres-your-burn.html

During the YTN interview, national security analyst Kim Jong Bong, said that according to a Japanese language report, Kim Jong Nam met with two CIA people directly before he was killed at the Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017. (Kim Jong Nam was Kim Han Sol's father and Kim Jong Un's half brother.) In his opinion the Japanese report was credible. The YTN news graphic in the background shows the relationship he observes among three entities during the rescue of Kim Han Sol after his father's death: Choellima Civil Defense, extract; CIA, transfer; FBI protect. Choellima Civil Defense spirited Kim Han Sol away from Macau within 48 hours of his father's reported assassination according to current news accounts. Free Joseon is the new name of the organization now associated with the burglary of the occupied DPRK embassy in Madrid.

Kim Jong Bong, a former National Intelligence Service, North Korea desk analyst, stated he felt there was involvement by the CIA in the Kim Han Sol defection and protection operation by the so called Choellima Civil Defense group, but doesn't believe they provided the command or direct support for the DPRK Madrid embassy break in.