Jong-nam Kim

Jong-nam Kim
Known for	Chairman of the Korea Computer Center
Birth	May 10, 1971
Death	February 13, 2017

Jong-nam Kim (김정남, Kim Jong-nam, May 10, 1971 - February 13, 2017) was the eldest son of the second leader of North Korea, Jong-Il Kim.

He was the heir apparent to his father until he fell out of favor in 2001 based on both a failed attempt to use a fake passport to take himself and his family to Tokyo Disneyland, as well as, according to Jong-nam Kim himself, his avocation of North Korean reform.

Prior to his exile from North Korea in 2003, he served as the chairman of the Korea Computer Center. After he was exiled from the country, he had been a source of information on the regime for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America.

After failed attempts to assassinate him, he was fatally poisoned with the nerve agent VX in Malaysia by the North Korean government led by his younger half brother, Jong Un Kim.