Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - The Youtube Prank That Killed a World Leader - The Assassination of Kim Jong Nam

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

This is the story of Siti, Doan, and the youtube prank that killed Kim Jong Nam.

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And she does that so she can send money back to her parents in Indonesia. But then one day, she meets a producer. The producer tells her he works for a production company of a huge YouTube channel. And they make like YouTube pranks and stuff, and he says he can get her an acting gig on his YouTube prank. show. And the best part is that it pays pretty well. She can quit escort work, she can also make all this money and send it back to her parents in Indonesia, plus they're gonna pay her the equivalent of 96 US dollars per prank, which is a lot of money to CT. So of course she says yes. And pretty quickly she's introduced to the head of the

YouTube channel, this guy, Mr. Chang, and Mr. Chang and the other producers, they start getting her to pull these pranks on people in public. They'll like go to a public place and she'll like walk up to a total stranger and just randomly start holding their hand. Or they'll do a prank where they put like baby oil on her hands, and she'll like run up behind a stranger and be like, guess who? Which smears the oil all over their face. It's pranks like that. And so she does a bunch of these pranks over the course of like a month. Meanwhile, the prank channel has also recruited this other woman to do pranks. Now her name is Donne, and we'll get to her. But one day, the producers call Citi in to meet them at the airport

because they're going to do this big prank there. So she's there and she's with Mr. Chang, but Chang tells Citi there's actually another actress involved this time. And that actress will be doing the same thing, and it's Don't. So the victim of this prank is actually going to get double-pranked. First by C.T. Then by Don't. But anyway, Mr. Chang pours a bunch of baby oil on C.T.'s And then he points to a man out in the airport that he wants her to prank. This man. So minutes later, C.T. sneaks up behind the man. And then from behind, she puts her hands over his eyes, like guess who or whatever. And of course, this smears the oil all over it. And then about three seconds later, Donne approaches the man. And she smears her hand on his face

as well. And then C.T. and Don, like, giggle or whatever. and then they run away to the nearest bathroom to wash the oil off their hands. Meanwhile, the poor man, he's confused and a little freaked out, and he goes over to the airport security guards, and he tells them that some random women just, like, smeared something on his face, and that now he doesn't feel well. So security escorts the man to the airport medical center, and his condition quickly gets worse,

like it is very apparent something is seriously wrong. So they rush him to the hospital, and on the way, he suddenly just dies. So who was this man? Well, let's call him NAM. Now, Nam is an interesting guy, because growing up, his dad was a dictator, the supreme leader of a little country you might have heard of, called North Korea.

Now, Nam, being the oldest son, he was always first in line to be the next Supreme Leader. But as he grew up and became an adult, Nam grew to be a little more progressive, a little more open-minded to reforming things for the better, something his conservative dictator dad really didn't like. But one day, NAM is traveling abroad, and he's in Japan.

in the airport. And suddenly, boom, he gets arrested. Why? Because he's traveling with a fake passport trying to conceal his identity. Turns out, Nam was in Japan because he's low-key trying to take his son to visit Tokyo Disney. Which in his country is a huge no-no. And once the news of Nam's arrest gets back to Dictator, dictator is pissed. I mean, the heir to the throne can't be seen going to Disneyland in Tokyo? Disneyland represents capitalism and worst of all, it represents America!

And it's just everything North Korea stands against. So this arrest is a huge source of embarrassment for Dictator. And this Disneyland fiasco eventually leads to NAM being passed over for the position of Supreme Leader. And when dictator eventually dies, his other son, NOM's half-brother, Kim Jong-un, he becomes the new dictator. And Kim Jong-un hates NAM. And NAM's been living internationally for a while in China. But regardless, Kim Jong-un has been trying to have him assassinated for years. And eventually, he and his regime come up with this elaborate plan.

They're going to trick two random women into unknowingly killing Nam. And the women end up being CT and Don. And when CT and Don are at the airport that day, the producers have both of them touch Nam's face with baby oil as a prank. But what CT and Don't know is that's not baby oil on their hands. No, no. On CT's hands, they put, we'll just call it chemical A. And on Don's hands, they put what we'll call chemical B. And when you combine these two compounds, it creates a nerve.

agent called VX or Venomous Agent X, a nerve agent that has been banned around the world, because it's considered a weapon of mass destruction and will kill you instantly, especially if someone smears it on your face. So Nam dies that day, right after they touch him. And Mr. Chang and all the other producers who set this up, they're all actually North Korean spies, and they all just flee, and they eventually get away. Of course, North Korea denies being involved in any of this, and this creates tensions between Malaysia and Indonesia. But since those producers, all fled, that leaves the only two people connected to the crime. CT and Don't.

So, CT and Don are in the airport bathroom washing their hands. And they walk out and they look around and all the producers are nowhere to be found. So CT and Don are just like, all right. And separately, the two women each go home. And they have no idea that anyone died. About a day later, they each get arrested. And CT is so clueless as to what's going on. She literally thinks her arrest is part of the prank show.

Yeah, right guys. Sure I'm being arrested. Okay. But Malaysian police arrest them and they charge them with murdering NAM. Eight months later, their trial starts. And if CT and Done get convicted of murder, by law, they'll get the death penalty. By hanging. So the stakes in this are really high. So this trial goes on for two years. And the Indonesian government has to get involved because CT is technically their citizen. And these women are in jail this whole time. And then one day, suddenly, like out of nowhere, the charges against C.T. Or just dropped. And cool, CT goes free. Apparently the Indonesian government was eventually able to intervene and they negotiated her release. While Dome does not get out.

But she does plead guilty to a lesser charge and eventually they do let her go. Here's what Dome looks like in real life. And here's what C.T looks like in real life. Wow, a crazy story. Shout out to North Korea.