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Activists to send leaflets about Kim Jong-nam’s murder to North Korea by balloon

The leaflets contain details of the murder and pictures including one of a dying Kim Jong-nam slumped in a chair at a clinic in the airport

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North Korean defectors and South Korean activists release balloons carrying chocolate pies and cookies in 2014. File photo: AP
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South Korean activists will send millions of leaflets about the poisoning murder of the half-brother of the North’s leader across the border by balloon, they said Thursday.

It is not clear how many North Koreans are aware of the fate Kim Jong-nam, who was killed with the nerve agent VX at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport, allegedly by two young women acting on Pyongyang’s orders.

The North has angrily denied involvement and accused Malaysia for colluding with South Korea to frame it, while only referring to the victim by a pseudonym, without clarifying his relationship with Kim Jong-un.

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The leaflets - to be flown across the border by giant, gas-filled balloons - contain details of the murder and pictures including one of a dying Kim Jong-nam slumped in a chair at a clinic in the airport.

The text describes the North’s leader as “a devil who killed his own brother”.

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Defectors fly balloons carrying 50,000 anti-North Korean government propaganda leaflets, along with US dollar notes, into North Korea, in 2016. File photo: EPA
Defectors fly balloons carrying 50,000 anti-North Korean government propaganda leaflets, along with US dollar notes, into North Korea, in 2016. File photo: EPA
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