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Facts and graphics: Life and death of the North Korean leader's half brother Kim Jong Nam

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Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korean’s leader Kim Jong Un, was killed on February 13.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, (1941/1942 – 2011, bottom left), poses with his first-born son Kim Jong Nam, (1971 – 2017, bottom right) in this 1981 family photo in Pyongyang, North Korea. Getty
Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korean’s leader Kim Jong Un, was killed on February 13.
A few days later,  the first North Korean to be arrested in connection with the case was a man  carrying Malaysian documentation issued to foreign workers, which identified him as 46-year-old North Korean citizen Ri Jong Chol. 
Malaysian detectives have also detained a 25-year-old Indonesian woman named Siti Aishah, her Malaysian boyfriend, and a woman carrying a Vietnamese passport identifying her as Doan Thi Huong, 28.

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