Experts: Kim Jong-un's loyalists led assassination of his half-brother

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SEOUL: The shocking murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, could have been engineered by a faction loyal to the current chief to eliminate a possible threat to the regime, experts here said Wednesday.

Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of the late Kim Jong-il, died Monday after allegedly being attacked with poison by two unidentified women at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2.