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To: TobagoJack who wrote (136950)12/1/2017 4:46:24 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (2) of 217605
 
Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was carrying 12 bottles of Atropine when his face was smeared with the banned VX nerve agent that caused his death at a Malaysian airport this year.

This suggests the 45-year-old Kim had forewarning that he might be subject to an assassination attempt using chemical weapons.

However, experts say that his planned antidote to VX (N-2-Diisopropylamino Ethyl methylphosphonothioate) was also fatally flawed.

“Atropine by itself is not an effective antidote for VX poisoning,” said Matthew Meselson, a professor of biochemistry at Harvard University and a board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Meselson said auto-injectors supplied by the U.S. Army to combat nerve agent poisoning contain not only atropine but also pralidoxime, another agent that binds to VX and helps prevent VX's toxic effects. I'd say Kim was poorly advised.

Kim Jong Nam was often viewed as a potential rival to Kim Jong Un because of his openness to reforms and direct bloodline to North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. Intelligence officials in Seoul said that Kim Jong Un had put a “standing order” out for his older half brother's assassination several years ago.
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