Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

According to earlier reports, two women coated their hands with a chemical and then wiped them on Kim Jong Nam's face at a departure hall of Kuala Lumpur International Airport TOKYO, March 1.

Kim Jong Nam had spent years in exile, gambling and drinking and arranging the occasional business deal as he travelled across Asia and Europe. In recent years, his fortunes had apparently ...

Kim Jong Nam died after a highly toxic VX nerve agent ... who were abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s. Tokyo should continue with its independent efforts to resolve the issue ...

The Indonesian woman freed after being accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, tells the BBC of the shock she felt when she heard she was being released.

Kim Jong Nam, to be the country's new leader. The source says the meeting was secretly taped by Zhou Yongkang, a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official, who allegedly tipped off Kim Jong Un.