Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un who was assassinated in Malaysia in 2017, told a Japanese reporter before his death that he was in contact with the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The Japanese reporter, who asked for anonymity, told the Financial Times that Kim had claimed on multiple occasions during meetings in China that spanned several years that he was “in contact” with CIA operatives.
The claims came ahead of the publication on Tuesday of The Great Successor, a portrait of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield, a Washington Post reporter, that says the deceased Kim was an informant for the CIA. The Wall Street Journal on Monday also said he had been a CIA source.