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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Getty Images)
When Kim Jong-un came to power in 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, he was less than 30 years old. As such, among the "old guard" in North Korea -- officials in the North Korean government who were appointed during his father's rule -- there was distrust in Kim Jong-un's ability to be an effective leader. Over nearly a decade of his rule, Kim Jong-un resorted to various methods to ensure that his rule was unquestioned and that his popularity with the North Korean citizens remained intact
One of those tactics used was his frequent abduction and killing of opponents within the country. The most famous example of that is undoubtedly the assassination of his older half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, in 2017. The assassination is the subject of Ryan White's latest documentary, 'Assassins', which pieces together key accounts of how the assassination took place and tells the story of the two women -- Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam -- who were tricked into carrying out the assassination on the pretext of a fake Japanese prank show.