Unless you doggedly follow geopolitics, you may only be passingly familiar with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, in Malaysia in 2017. Two women were accused of his murder, but the question became if they were highly trained operatives working on behalf of the North Korean government to eliminate a potential rival, or were they somehow duped into poisoning Kim Jong-nam? With the pacing and style of a political thriller, Assassins director Ryan White dives into the case while providing a crash course on East and Southeast Asian politics. …
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