The source added that Kim Jong-nam "pulled out of the succession race several years ago by himself, saying he had no interest in politics," according to Yomiuri.
Kim Jong-nam has lived abroad for years after apparently falling out of favour with his father for trying to enter Japan on a false passport in 2001.
Kim Jong-il eventually backed his youngest son from another marriage to continue the dynasty. The North has proclaimed Kim Jong-un the "great successor" and the supreme commander of the military after his father's death due to a heart attack aged 69.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported last week that Kim Jong-nam had been "placed under Chinese protection."
Kim Jong-nam has described as a "farce" South Korean media reports in 2009 that people around Kim Jong-un had tried to assassinate him in Macau, the source told the daily.
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