Kim Jong Nam had rejected an offer to lead a government-in-exile on behalf of North Korean defectors in Europe and the United States before his assassination at Kuala Lumpur airport last week. The Korea Times reports: “He was concerned that accepting such an offer may not help end hereditary succession of power in the repressive regime,” a source said. The source said Kim’s paternal half-brother and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may have ordered his death with suspicions that he may join the government-in-exile aimed at eventually overthrowing the regime. One of the defectors’ groups that made the proposals included International North Korean Association for Human Rights and Democracy in London. The association’s secretary general, Kim Joo-il, said he “regularly contacted” Kim Jong-nam until June after they first met face-to-face in China in December 2014. Kim Jong-nam, who had been staying outside of North Korea for years, was returning from Pyongyang after attending a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of his late father Kim Jong-il’s death. Kim Joo-il asked him to serve as the chief of an envisioned government-in-exile to be led by one of the family members of Kim Jong-un. But he turned down the proposal, claiming that [...]
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