Video of alleged son of slain Kim Jong-nam says family is hiding out
Seoul — A man claiming to be the son of the slain, estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader said he was lying low with his mother and sister, in a video posted online by a group that said it had helped rescue them following the murder, a month ago. The governments of the Netherlands, China, the US, and a fourth unnamed country provided emergency humanitarian assistance to protect the family, the group, called Cheollima Civil Defense, said in a statement released on Wednesday along with the video. An official at South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said the man in the video was Kim Han-sol, the 21-year-old son of Kim Jong-nam, who was killed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13 by assassins. Malaysian police say the killers used a super-toxic nerve agent that killed him within 20 minutes. The intelligence official declined to go beyond identifying Kim Han-sol. During the 40-second video posted on Wednesday, the man says his father was killed a few days ag...
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