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In the 2018 documentary “North Korea’s Deadly Dictator,” FRONTLINE examined who killed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half brother, Kim Jong-nam, and what it revealed about the North Korean regime. (Aired 2018) This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate​/ In 2017, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half brother Kim Jong-nam was ambushed in a Malaysian airport by two women bearing a lethal chemical weapon 10 times more powerful than sarin. He died en route to the hospital. In the 2018 FRONTLINE documentary “North Korea’s Deadly Dictator,” producer Jane McMullen examined claims that Kim Jong-un and his intelligence services ordered the assassination on Kim Jong-nam, and shed light on his broader intentions and his regime’s nuclear capabilities. “If you want to understand what’s actually going on in Pyongyang … one of the things you have to understand are these rare moments when the palace opens its doors inadvertently and lets you in,” Evan Osnos of The New Yorker said in the documentary. “And one of those moments — perhaps its most spectacular moment — was the assassination of Kim Jong-nam.” Drawing on interviews with a leading North Korean defector, diplomats, Kim Jong-nam’s school friends and even a former North Korean secret agent, the documentary offered a rare glimpse at the inner workings of the Kim family. It also examined how King Jong-un operates, and how he tries to ensure his regime’s

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