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@davidspencer8373

2 ай бұрын

Like video

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

2 ай бұрын

Hi Mike, please upload a video about the rise & fall of 4th Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad TQ Greetings from Malaysia 🇲🇾

@HistBite

2 ай бұрын

A great video. I love it!

@LeroxYT

2 ай бұрын

I wonder how we know that ground news is neutral...

@BlackCloverHD-ne6oy

Ай бұрын

Can you make a video of the battle of post keating you talked about a little on the broken arrow video but is it possible that make a full video on the battle that would be great. I love your videos

What’s funny is that these guys were recruited by shady people for pranks and they were doing it for a long time, they just didn’t know this one would be a political assassination

@vincent-oliviergagnonprime366

2 ай бұрын

It's kinda like Ghost in the Shell if you think about it

@pancudowny

2 ай бұрын

Read about the Phoebe Fraunces, the black girl that prevented Gen. Washington from being poisoned, and you'll draw similarities.

@Rin8Kin

2 ай бұрын

They needed to train them and build trust with non-lethal pranks, that had parts of final plan. Thus this final "prank" was just a routine "prank #4" from the list of pranks they did many times before.

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

2 ай бұрын

Imagine, the United States planned the invasion of my homeland Malaysia if Perikatan Nasional (National of Alliance) won the GE16 (or PRU 16) & support to Russia & Iran (or China) against the American

@Unknown_Genius

2 ай бұрын

@@Rin8Kin True, but it's at the same time something that'd not have happened if they had any self respect and denied the offer. I certainly could use another extra 100$, but I'd definitely not start harassing people for that little cash, the extra trouble that could potentially bring is absolutely not worth that little (somehow gotta pay that lawyer after all if one of the victims would be allergic to baby oil and possibly the bail if they prosecute you for an unprovoked attack).

"Carrying out an assassination via lacing two different containers of baby oil with two separate chemicals when combined form a deadly nerve toxin and disguising the assassination as a prank video" honestly sounds like something a modern Bond villain would come up with. Truth be stranger than fiction sometimes

@r01d2

2 ай бұрын

that's North Korea for you

@kloa4219

Ай бұрын

kingsman villain

@ethanhoerr2924

Ай бұрын

Very similar to Joker’s plan in Batman ‘89.

@battlesheep2552

Ай бұрын

The reason is (good) fiction has to follow some kind of narrative, while in real life there doesnt need to be a reason for anything to happen aside from simple cause and effect.

@b3games146

Ай бұрын

@@battlesheep2552 the other reason is kim jong un doesnt live in reality and is a bond villian

It's just a prank bro! The prank:

@strechemall

2 ай бұрын

Look over there....look the cameras right there.

@aureusfrancisco6785

2 ай бұрын

💀💀💀

@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378

2 ай бұрын

​@@strechemall There a hidden camera there! There a hidden camera there!.

@juanleon3875

Ай бұрын

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@juanleon3875

Ай бұрын

*c r i m i n a l*

Titles you dont expect to read for 100 please.

@MatthewTheWanderer

2 ай бұрын

Yep, got me to watch real quick, lol.

@jintachi

2 ай бұрын

“Accidentally” planned murder …

@nebula189

2 ай бұрын

I already knew the story, just clicked because it was inaccurate. It was all planned, nothing was accidental

@Eduardo_Espinoza

2 ай бұрын

Not even surprised

@Playing096

2 ай бұрын

​@@nebula189they said to her it was a prank

and then people wonder why pranksters get shot or beaten

@mr.doctorcaptain1124

Ай бұрын

Literally no one wonders. That’s why that dude who shot those last KZread pranksters was found innocent

And that's exactly why you should never, ever accept a complete stranger's offer to "prank" another complete stranger.

@Unknown_Genius

2 ай бұрын

Especially not for that little cash. Imagine going up to strangers, smearing them with baby oil for 100$ just to figure out that one would be allergic even if it'd be legit. There's no way that any producer of such a show would say "Ah yes, we're gonna pay the lawyers and a possible bail for you".

@Daniel4646

2 ай бұрын

@@Unknown_Genius "Especially not for that little cash." Regarding that point, there are sure to be cases where people have done such foolish things for far less than that.

@Unknown_Genius

2 ай бұрын

@@Daniel4646 Fair point. But usually it doesn't include putting random substances on random people without even knowing what it is or knowing if they're allergic to it - that requires a really specific kind of person that can only be described as dumb.

@Daniel4646

2 ай бұрын

@@Unknown_Genius Well, there's a sucker somewhere in the world at any moment...

@Unknown_Genius

2 ай бұрын

@@Daniel4646 true enough, as sad as it is

The fact said "japanese TV show" never aired makes me believe it was a assassination plan from the start, and the previous pranks were made just to lure the two woman into believing it was a prank. So yeah a bunch of actual pranks so they wouldn't be the wiser when the real deal happened

@RetroJack

2 ай бұрын

You worked that out yourself, huh? 🤣

@impulseelectrobrine1259

2 ай бұрын

No! That’s not true! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!

@kingsnakke6888

2 ай бұрын

​@@impulseelectrobrine1259 Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

@impulseelectrobrine1259

2 ай бұрын

@@kingsnakke6888 NOOOOO! No!

@r01d2

2 ай бұрын

despite how evil but it's an outstanding move, that far to disguising the scheme, imagine you have that much patient to unalive someone in your sigh.

And ever since 2021, Malaysia has ceased all diplomatic ties with North Korea.

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

2 ай бұрын

#BoycottIran

@OnxGrid

2 ай бұрын

​@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 do Iran even export their goods anymore?

@jessicaregina1956

2 ай бұрын

😂 does Malaysia or North Korea need anything from each other?

@chlorophyll6154

Ай бұрын

Malaysia do not claim NK at all

@labbit3574

Ай бұрын

Probably realised how evil NK is after the incident

Ah yes, Kim Jong Un doing some tomfoolery with his brother

What's worse is that he died in my country which has nothing to do with N.Korea. thus creating another conflict

@ikram2512

2 ай бұрын

Nk is just a distraction The bigger problem will be china

@gore0ru

Ай бұрын

And who benefits from this, I wonder?

@awesomenurmzamri5789

Ай бұрын

@@gore0ru it's all a conspiracy

@greenboygamer907

Ай бұрын

​@@awesomenurmzamri5789man,then what happen next?

@imanuelc143

Ай бұрын

​@@gore0ruummm, their brother?

Its called an assassination.

@sabresergal8989

Ай бұрын

KZread won’t let them or they get demonetized

These women just destroyed the chance of North Korea being free.

@IceGamez

Ай бұрын

😢

@IceGamez

Ай бұрын

😢

@revertate4109

Ай бұрын

So true he was the only nice and kind one

@azamuv6390

Ай бұрын

Welp this called for the ☕️ moment :v

@TheTeknus

Ай бұрын

Well you may never know whose your boss is actually working for, and you being the pawn unknowingly

i dont even know what to say about this, and im also too lazy to research it myself but now the quote "its just a prank bro" has a different meaning.

@ferretyluv

2 ай бұрын

It’s real. I remember when this happened. The only debate was whether these women were in on it from the start or patsies.

I’m starting to think this wasn’t an accident, way I think about it.

@TSE_WOODY

2 ай бұрын

Yeah definitely not, this is far too strange and coincidental to have not been the intended ending

@PurplePhantom4

2 ай бұрын

Definitely was an assassination

@17ambi

2 ай бұрын

i hope you dont vote

@GrandDukeMushroom

2 ай бұрын

It wasn't and I don't know why this video frames it like that. Chinese propaganda.

@17ambi

2 ай бұрын

@@GrandDukeMushroom i mean, the girls didnt know they had neurotoxins on their hands, but the people who put them there did. im not sure how you came to the conclusion that this video paints the scene as an accident

It wasn't for YT, it was told it was for a YT prank video by the men who hired the women to disguise the assassination as a harmless prank and using YT as an excuse

@dandjsqaud2237

2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@The-lone-nugget

Ай бұрын

Whoah now you think about it

@aj3751

Ай бұрын

Hey thanks for restating exactly what the video said

@sleepingpilot

Ай бұрын

@@aj3751 i meant the title was misleading and mentioned it being intentionally for youtube rather than using yt as an excuse

@happydemon3038

Ай бұрын

The women did it for KZread, they just didn't know it never went there.

"History can say what it wants but rarely does it remember anything correctly"-Lawkeeper Equity Mlp Ace Attorney EOJ

It's an assassination not a prank

@Saakija

2 ай бұрын

If you've watched the video, you would know a North Korean saboteur convinced the 2 ladies to rub the oil across Kim Jong Nam's face by claiming it was for a "Japanese prank channel" and thus the 2 ladies unintentionally carried out the assassination.

@_piulin_

2 ай бұрын

it was just a prank bro

@aguynamedluis9266

2 ай бұрын

Good cover....

@Jamesfrancosdog

2 ай бұрын

Do you know what a perspective is? Do you realize two things can be true at the same time? Or do you just enjoy whining?

@ChupacabraRex

2 ай бұрын

I'ts just a prank bro

It's just a Prank Dude! The Prank:

@joseurbanos.domingo6344

Ай бұрын

"ugh, this is worse that the time you 'accidentally' dropped little boy in Japan."

I don’t think the pranksters realize they were hired by the DPRK to assassinate Kim jong un’s brother

@gore0ru

Ай бұрын

DPRK, exactly!

@thomas.thomas

Ай бұрын

DPRK stands for Depressing PaRt of Korea

thankyou simple history for putting my home country of Malaysia in your channel

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

2 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@RANDOMALAYSIAN

Ай бұрын

I am a Malaysian too

@The_Lute777

Ай бұрын

Im Indonesian

MacArthur: Nuke em! Truman: No! MacArthur: NUKE EM! Truman: NO! MacArthur: AH COME ON! Truman: You’re fired!

@Frank85783

2 ай бұрын

If They fucking do it Good luck for "Sino-America War"

@user-gi8pk9uc7q

2 ай бұрын

The reason that MacArthur was fired was that he was insubordinate to his commander-in-chief, that is, Truman!

@AesJCoyote

2 ай бұрын

Ah, a man of culture I see

@AverageMann

Ай бұрын

Huzzah! A man of quality!

Can't wait for the movie. It'll probably be titled something deceptively alluding to the key part of the story... like "In Your Eyes....".😕

@MrPolicekarim

2 ай бұрын

ROTFL!

@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378

2 ай бұрын

That's PUNitively funny.

@wheresthegovernance4350

26 күн бұрын

The 'employment' in Malaysia scenes would be the sexy scenes for sure

As an Indonesian, I heard this news, lucky enough for Siti since Indonesians still able to negotiate to free Siti from the trials for this murder, especially since both Indonesia and NK had good relations....

@charleschandrablazinger6515

Ай бұрын

I'm still hate North Korean as their selfishness, but i'm Indonesia and feel disagree about this relationship. :(

@marcvsjvniobrvtvs393

Ай бұрын

Excuse me, did the NK were sentencing them? I mean they're put in trial in Malaysia not in NK.

@indo-malayanfederationmapp891

Ай бұрын

@@marcvsjvniobrvtvs393 from what I heard the Malaysians who did the trials...

@marcvsjvniobrvtvs393

Ай бұрын

@@indo-malayanfederationmapp891 i see it, i'm just try to correcting you man, NK did not do anything to free them from their prosecutions, and of course this incident happened in my country Malaysia and everything is our jurisdictions. And once again, the NK didn't do anything even try to help them free.

@marcvsjvniobrvtvs393

Ай бұрын

@@indo-malayanfederationmapp891 NK government did not even take responsibility or admit for the women they framed, not even sent their delegations to discuss this matter to solve it. For your last paragraph it should be between Indonesia and Malaysia that have good relationship.

I remember this case in 2017 when i was in primary school. I was so shocked that the possible threat that might happen to malaysia. My friend and i at that time joking the north koreans army could send nuclear weapons to malaysia as sign of their anger. Fuh, i could simply say the threat is no longer on us but the devastating thing is malaysians could not travelled to north koreans anymore after this case

@fakhrianuar

Ай бұрын

To be fair, not many interesting things in North Korea anyway

@necro501

Ай бұрын

Most wouldn't even wanna travel there anyway 😂

I heard about this before. But didn't know the entirety of it.

I can’t believe 2017 is already Simple History

Why does the title contain the word 'accidentally'!? It wasn't an accident. These women were tricked into killing him.

@happydemon3038

Ай бұрын

The same reason it contains KZread and Prank. It is true yet false. For the women they intended to just prank, for KZread, and didn't know of any fatal effects of it. Then you pull back the curtain and see the hidden actors who setup the assassination.

Your stories about korea are awesome !!

The KGB: Write that down! Write that down!

It’s even sadder realizing he was trying to make north korea a democracy.

Wild how many people don’t understand the title… or the definition of “accidentally” especially from the perspective of the “pranksters”.

@dandjsqaud2237

2 ай бұрын

Sure out of all people it was Kim jun un brother💀

@tianam.964

Ай бұрын

I clicked on the video expecting it to be an actual accident. 🤷🏾‍♀️ It’s intentionally phrased that way for clickbait, not just “from the perspective of the pranksters”. A title like “Assassins Trick Innocent Women Into Killing Kim Jong Nam” would be more apt, though not quite as enticing. This was a crazy story either way; I know they felt terrible for what happened.

Great Video As Always ! 👏👏👏

Nam would probably been a better leader than his brother

@BinhTran-mw9hg

2 ай бұрын

You really would prefer a playboy gambler? 🤣

@rottonpotato9191

2 ай бұрын

@BinhTran-mw9hg you must be fun at parties.

@arcihungbycraneonfire

2 ай бұрын

@@BinhTran-mw9hg we would

@analex4044

2 ай бұрын

@@BinhTran-mw9hgover a dictator yes

@BinhTran-mw9hg

Ай бұрын

@@analex4044 Well, there were quite a lot of playboy kings and leaders in history, and their regimes did not go well. Some examples: Elagabalus of the Roman Empire Commodus of the Roman Empire Caligula of the Roman Empire Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire George IV of England Trần Dụ Tông of the Trần Dynasty Farouk of Egypt I do not praise dictatorship, but to assume that a playboy would do better than an iron hand is just silly. Half-solution is only as good as no solution at all. But whatever, who are we to decide? Let the Korean handle their internal affair.

Excuse me what?!

@schimanoman2817

2 ай бұрын

This

@im_not_jacob

Ай бұрын

@ChrixDimention W H A T

Love it all, thanks

prank detected ⚠️⚠️⚠️

@Xəeroh

2 ай бұрын

opinion rejected 🫸

@biancoboy_j

2 ай бұрын

@@Xəerohuno reverse card

Thank, finally you mentioning kuala Lumpur

Someone just want to vacation, but get killed by a prank, what a people is they are.

As a Malaysian, I wonder why this didn't become a bigger meme, I remember when this is happening no ones give a flippin FAQ

10:11 the police officer's arm badge says 'pokemon d4' on it lol

Ah it's good you got coverage about this news, but unfortunately the world does not know about this incident happened in my country.

Next Target on their "prank" list: Kim Jong Un

Accepted 10 years of prison. Sentenced to 3 years of prison. Released after just 1 month in prison. BRO, WTF???

“Accidentally” LOL 😅

Great video, should do one on David Bruce Bleak!

My geography teacher showed me the cctv footage of the prank

@simplehistory do you take requests? Could you do one on the murder of Ken Rex Mcelroy?

Great video

Bro must have dissapeared a day later

To be clear: It wasn't an accident! It was a deliberate assassination

@rogeryscankill962

21 күн бұрын

*accidental assasination made by 2 people that was tricked

So much for family loyalty!

I haven’t seen the video fully but the worst part is that the pranksters didn’t know they would kill him

This is actually very well thought out 😂

If you watched the video of the attack, it didn't look like a prank. It looked like a trained attack by 2 brainwashed agents. It was an excuse to blame a prank. This attack was well thought out using nerve agent.

@user-gi8pk9uc7q

2 ай бұрын

Poor Mr. Kim!

@wilfdarr

2 ай бұрын

I agree, but none the less it does appear the two ladies had no idea they were participating in an assassination attempt, no idea they were handling the precursors to VX.

@triadwarfare

Ай бұрын

They are pranksters with experience after all.

@nocturnalrecluse1216

Ай бұрын

Very possible. Especially since they knew to wash their hands immediately.

@wilfdarr

Ай бұрын

@@nocturnalrecluse1216 Of you had baby oil on your hands you'd wash your hands too. I don't think you can prove one way or the other, but knowing what we know about North Korea, they were disposable so I would believe they were never let in on the real plan.

I read the title and just immediately thought 'executed.'

And they were never seen again

i really wanna see the prank video that they did previousy. it must be uploaded somewhere i guess ?

Um… accidentally? This was a targeted killing.

@howlingdin9332

Ай бұрын

Not on the part of the pranksters. Look at the title of the video again.

@maikel07777

Ай бұрын

Well they thought they smeared baby oil on his face, not a vx agent

Luckiest woman didn't get death penalty

As you say one quote from movies: It's all fun an games, until someone get's hurt.

Yes a tragic “Accident”

You would of thought dude could afford some security of some kind!

But the worst thing is that it made it extremely strict for 13 days because you couldn’t smile.

Imagine a future where he actually replaced Kim Jong Un

People need to change the phrase "it's just a prank" to "my braincells is dying".

"Calm down it's just a prank bro" or "GET PRANKED LOLOLOL" would be the funniest fricking line

The paul brothers are taking notes 😅

It's like trying to crush a worm and then you realize it was a dragon's tail

Why does the thumbnail sounds like something out of a Geopold vid lmao

@BadChildUnit

Ай бұрын

Nice pfp

They accidentaly made mass destruction for 100 bucks bro

@LittleToNoProtection

Ай бұрын

I mean 100$ is 1 million indonesian rupiah and to get it just by pranking people? Alot of indonesian wouldve taken the deal.

They knew what they are doing.

Thats a crazy title! Great video.

Can you guys do some other videos like the ones you used to do

"Prank em John" -Kim Jong Un

0:07 what a description of ya target 😂😂😂

@2zkm804

Ай бұрын

I was just looking for this

That was an assassination.

We should be thankful this didn’t become a tipping point because this has all the signs of a diplomatic incident

It was no accident. It was a planner assassinstion. The only people not in on it were the ones actually doing it

Wow, that was some black ops shiftttt

Great work love from macau 🇲🇴

Well that'll be the last time I'll take part in a prank show.

45 years old is considered an old man? Huh?

@mitchgisborne1369

2 ай бұрын

The future is now, old man

@scoville24

2 ай бұрын

45 years young

@ezri1529

Ай бұрын

South Korean people will call either an uncle or an old man so yeah SK considered that

As a Malaysian,yes we almost got threatened to get vanished because of this pranksters

This prank went to far until passed away

I saw this prank on America's Funniest Videos complete with nonstop laugh track.

Pranks is not normal in Malaysia, those poison were in fact VX Nerve agent

Okay but why do they think that assaulting somebody is a prank?? Sure, they didn’t know it killed him, but still they assaulted him by putting that over his face.

Seems odd for the title to call this accidental when it was an orchestrated assassination.

One prankster did the baby oil wipe and the other did perfume.

"It's a prank bro" last words of the dude

Moral of the story: The greatest weapon for assassination is deception.

And i thought that invisible ink prank was one of the worst pranks on youtube

"Accidentally"

I never thought I would hear someone say “When a KZread prank killed Kim Jon Un’s brother”

Accidentally? Bro this was an assassination.

He would be rushed to the hospital but would die before the ambulance would arrive. Wait, what?

When a homie falls asleep first at the sleepover

"Accidental" I would say something along the lines of "so that's what they're calling it now," but these have been called "accidents" since assassins started working their skillset down to a science thousands of years ago.

These girls deserved more time in prison tho even if they thought it was just prank,do they know how tired someone is after a flight and so they won’t do anything for money anymore