Big Brother: North Korea’s Forgotten Prince

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Old tortalitarian dictators, by their nature are paranoid and the
white cap every morning thinking is this going to be
my last day? In North Korea? The palace walls hid
a dirty secret. The current dictator, Kim jong nun, was
never supposed to become supreme leader. No, that honor should

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have gone to his eldest brother, Kim Jong Nam. Through
the eighties and nineties, Tong Nam was groomed to take
control of the Hermit Kingdom's throne, the palaces, the power,
the pageantry. It was all destined to be his. He
should have been the successor. Instead, his little brother got

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the job, and Kim Jong Nam had a target on
his back and nowhere to hide. North Korean leaders have
brother dies. In Kuala Lumpur, my name Kim CCTV footage
services showing attack Kim kej the man who was destined

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to become dictator, would be killed in one of the
most brazen and bizarre assassination plots of the twenty one century.
The question is why join me evenly as we go
on an adventure and interview CIA agents, world class journalists
and North Korean insiders and investigate a twisted tale rife

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with espionage, palace gossip, and political backstabbing. We explore the
one time Airs rise and fall from Kim Jong Nam's
early promise. When Kim Jong Nam was twenty four, his
father presented m the general's uniform. He was being as

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the successors, the palace intrigue, a lot of clothing and
dagger James bogg stuff about Kim John to the political
power struggles that spelled his doom. Anybody who is deemed
to have power who thinks differently is a threat and

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needs to be eliminated. Along the way, we dive deep
into this reclusive and unpredictable nation and discover that it is,
in fact, anything but all that and more on Big Brother,
the Rise and fall of North Korea's forgotten Prince. Listen

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