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- 0:00Speaker 1: Old tortalitarian dictators, by their nature are paranoid and the
- 0:04Speaker 1: white cap every morning thinking is this going to be
- 0:06Speaker 1: my last day? In North Korea? The palace walls hid
- 0:11Speaker 1: a dirty secret. The current dictator, Kim jong nun, was
- 0:16Speaker 1: never supposed to become supreme leader. No, that honor should
- 0:22Speaker 1: have gone to his eldest brother, Kim Jong Nam. Through
- 0:27Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties, Tong Nam was groomed to take
- 0:30Speaker 1: control of the Hermit Kingdom's throne, the palaces, the power,
- 0:35Speaker 1: the pageantry. It was all destined to be his. He
- 0:40Speaker 1: should have been the successor. Instead, his little brother got
- 0:44Speaker 1: the job, and Kim Jong Nam had a target on
- 0:48Speaker 1: his back and nowhere to hide. North Korean leaders have
- 0:55Speaker 1: brother dies. In Kuala Lumpur, my name Kim CCTV footage
- 1:03Speaker 1: services showing attack Kim kej the man who was destined
- 1:15Speaker 1: to become dictator, would be killed in one of the
- 1:18Speaker 1: most brazen and bizarre assassination plots of the twenty one century.
- 1:24Speaker 1: The question is why join me evenly as we go
- 1:30Speaker 1: on an adventure and interview CIA agents, world class journalists
- 1:35Speaker 1: and North Korean insiders and investigate a twisted tale rife
- 1:39Speaker 1: with espionage, palace gossip, and political backstabbing. We explore the
- 1:45Speaker 1: one time Airs rise and fall from Kim Jong Nam's
- 1:49Speaker 1: early promise. When Kim Jong Nam was twenty four, his
- 1:54Speaker 1: father presented m the general's uniform. He was being as
- 2:01Speaker 1: the successors, the palace intrigue, a lot of clothing and
- 2:05Speaker 1: dagger James bogg stuff about Kim John to the political
- 2:10Speaker 1: power struggles that spelled his doom. Anybody who is deemed
- 2:16Speaker 1: to have power who thinks differently is a threat and
- 2:21Speaker 1: needs to be eliminated. Along the way, we dive deep
- 2:25Speaker 1: into this reclusive and unpredictable nation and discover that it is,
- 2:30Speaker 1: in fact, anything but all that and more on Big Brother,
- 2:39Speaker 1: the Rise and fall of North Korea's forgotten Prince. Listen
- 2:44Speaker 1: to Big Brother on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast,
- 2:47Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Coming February