{"id":8530,"date":"2017-03-14T08:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2017-04-05T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T02:38:30","slug":"the-many-question-surrounding-kim-jong-nams-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/14\/the-many-question-surrounding-kim-jong-nams-coffin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Questions Surrounding Kim Jong Nam&#8217;s Coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgy Toloraya surveys a <a href=\"http:\/\/38north.org\/2017\/03\/gtoloraya030717\/\" target=\"_blank\">landscape of question marks<\/a> when it comes to the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia, from <em><strong>38 North<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This attack also raises a strong doubt that a new, likely liberal South Korean government will start a dialogue with Pyongyang, as was widely expected. Relations with China also suffered, as Beijing immediately punished Kim Jong Un by banning coal exports for the rest of the year. Russia\u2019s hopes for restarting multilateral negotiations were also dashed, quickly dissolving any warm feelings in Moscow. And, of course, North Korea\u2019s relations with Malaysia\u2014one of the few partners and outposts abroad\u2014have been severely damaged over criticisms over the investigation process.<\/p>\n<p>These are just a handful of the questions still to be answered about this ordeal. Numerous theories have emerged thus far\u00a0about\u00a0who perpetrated this act, why now and to what ends\u2014everything\u00a0from\u00a0Kim Jong Un ordering\u00a0the hit to\u00a0something more complex such as some \u201creactionary\u201d or China-biased\u00a0forces in the North staging\u00a0the\u00a0event to curb Kim Jong\u00a0Un\u2019s\u00a0influence.\u00a0(For example, a group of intelligence people may have felt threatened by the Marshal and instructed their unsuspecting agents to stage the event to undermine Kim Jong Un\u2019s standing both domestically and abroad.)\u00a0We may never know the\u00a0full story, but\u00a0we should be watching closely\u00a0to both the Malaysian investigations and North Korean responses over the next few weeks\u00a0for more answers\u00a0to\u00a0why Kim Jong Nam was killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t considered a false flag attack. Certainly, ridding the world of a Kim family member while also eliminating an export market for North Korea might count as a two-fer for certain groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgy Toloraya surveys a landscape of question marks when it comes to the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia, from 38 North: This attack also raises a strong doubt that a new, likely liberal South Korean government will start a dialogue with Pyongyang, as was widely expected. Relations with \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/14\/the-many-question-surrounding-kim-jong-nams-coffin\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}