U.S. experts on the Korean Peninsula said the reported assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, indicates the internal instability of the North Korean regime.
 
Victor Cha, chair of Korea studies at the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS), told Yonhap News that the death of Kim Jong-nam hints at how much resistance there is inside the country.
 
He said he does not agree with the assessment that the North has maintained stability for the past five years during the transition of power from former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un.
 
Pointing out that Kim Jong-un sacked the minister of state security Kim Won-hong last month and now kills the elder brother, Cha said the North does not “look so stable” to him.
 
Mark Tokola, vice president of the Korea Economic Institute of America, had a similar analysis on the North Korea situation.
 
In a statement, Tokola said “there are very few that would directly benefit from Kim Jong-nam's death other than his half-brother in Pyongyang.” He added that the death of Kim Jong-nam might have been prompted by “a continuing sense of paranoia on the part of Kim Jong-un.”

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