amy: bruce cumings, would you like to weigh in on this?> i agree with christina was very odd this was done in a venue where there are all kinds of people milling about and security cameras there. with the north koreans want to assassinate someone, they send a caringsassin and he is poison so that if he is captured after the assassination, before he is captured, he will commit suicide and then they can deny everything and blame it on the south korean special services. .his was a very odd event also, it occurred in malaysia, which is a country that had freely relations with north korea. one of the few non-communist advanced countries that north koreans and malaysians could go back and forth without visas. they poisoned if north korea did this, which one has to assume they did. i mean, who else didn't it? is basically poison the relations with malaysia. it feeds into the world media image of kim jong-un assembly just chopped someone set off when they disagree with him, whether it is his uncle or some of the else. in this case, his half-brothe