My name is Daniel. I was an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and now I am a writer who has

published three books including South Korea: Our Story by Daniel Nardini.

                               The assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's half brother Kim

Jong-nam is sending shock waves throughout the world. According to news reports, Kim Jong-nam was attacked by two unidentified women at the international airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. <span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">Kim Jong-nam was the only credible threat against Kim Jong-un, and it is very </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">clear that the Chinese government favored Kim Jong-nam as an alternative to Kim Jong-un should the Chinese </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">government want regime change. Whether Kim Jong-un ordered the assassination of </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">Kim Jong-nam needs to be confirmed. However, there is no doubt that Kim Jong-un had every reason to kill </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">his half-brother. This leaves Kim Jong-nam's son, Kim Han-sol, as the only real threat to Kim Jong-un and an </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">alternative to Kim Jong-un if the Chinese government wants regime change. Kim Han-sol is under French </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">police protection at present and may soon go into hiding. Given the propensity of the Kim family to murder </span><span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">ordinary people, former defectors to South Korea, members of the North Korean Workers Party, or Kim family</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">members, I see NO outrage from the Korean liberals or political left for the murder of Kim Jong-nam. I see</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">plenty of hate and rage against South Korean Park Geun-hye who was impeached under questionable</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">circumstances but has murdered no one. I have to ask where the Korean political left's priorities are?! It</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">apparently does not matter that former North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung murdered 3 million people in his</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">lifetime, and that his son Kim Jong-il let 3 million North Koreans die in a famine caused by North Korea's</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">disastrous agricultural policies. But I guess this means nothing to the South Korean political left, who can</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">operate in a democracy knowing full well they will not be rounded up by any secret police, or shot. I find</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">it sad and distasteful that there are those who would be more than happy with a murderous dictator than</span>

<span style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; font-size: 9pt;">living in a democracy with a far, far better standard of living and an elected president. </span>