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Big Brother: North Korea’s Forgotten Prince

Big Brother: North Korea’s Forgotten Prince

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 Kim Jong-nam should be the ruler of North Korea. Instead, he was the victim of the 21st century’s most bizarre assassination plot. A deep look inside a decades-long saga broiling with deceit, palace gossip, and political backstabbing—shedding light on the machinations of the most secretive nation on the planet.2025 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia Social Sciences True Crime World
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    Written by Dylan Heuer
    Produced by Josh Fisher
    Editing and Sound Design by Chris Childs
    Mixing and Mastering by Baheed Frazier
    Story Editor is Aaron Edwards
    Additional Editing by Mary Dooe
    Research and Fact-Checking by Dylan Heuer, Aaron Edwards, and Austin Thompson
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