The United States says it will impose new economic sanctions on North Korea for using a lethal chemical nerve agent in last year’s assassination of the estranged half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un. The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it has determined that Pyongyang used the banned VX nerve agent to kill Kim Jong […]
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assassinated Monday in Malaysia, according to South Korean government sources. VOA contacted South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, which neither confirmed nor denied the death of Kim Jong Nam. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Kim Jong Nam was killed by two unidentified North Korean female […]