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The Death of Kim Jong-nam: Implausible Deniability

The story of Kim Jong-nam’s assassination took a bizarre turn with the announcement by Malaysian authorities that the cause of death was a banned chemical weapon, the nerve agent VX. Why choose a weapon that would be so obviously traced back to North Korea?

Is North Korea Communist?

Much is made of dynastic succession, of long periods when the organs of communist party rule are moribund, and of the military first policy in…