Trump suggests he wouldn't use Kim Jong-un's family members as CIA assets

Details: "Three months after his death, in May 2017, the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported that while in Malaysia, Kim Jong Nam met with a Korean-American whom Malaysian officials suspected was a U.S. intelligence officer," per the WSJ report.

• "Mr. Kim traveled to Malaysia in February 2017 to meet his CIA contact, although that may not have been the sole purpose of the trip, the person knowledgeable about the matter said."

• Several former U.S. officials said Kim Jong-nam "was almost certainly in contact with security services of other countries, particularly China's."
• He lived outside North Korea for many years and some former U.S. officials told the WSJ he was "unlikely to be able to provide details of the secretive country’s inner workings."

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