3RD SUSPECT IN THE KILLING OF NORTH KOREAN DICTATOR'S BROTHER ARRESTED
3rd Suspect in Kim Jong Un’s Brother's Murder At The Malaysian Airport Arrested;
Updated February 17, 2017
Half brother to North Korean Leader, Kim Jong Un, has been killed in an attack in Malaysia,Kim Jong Nam,who was the older half-brother of Kim Jong Un was known to have spent most of his time outside of North Korea.
Media in South Korea say he had been poisoned at the airport in Kuala Lumpur by two women,as he waited for a flight to Macau.According to the reports, he suddenly fell ill and died on his way to hospital.The women believed to be North Korean operatives are still at large.
Once seen as a likely successor to Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Nam was thought to have fallen out of favour with his father when he tried to enter Japan using a false passport.He had told officials that he was planning to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Having lost out on becoming his father’s successor in 2011,Jong-Nam maintained a low profile,spending most of his time overseas in Macau, Singapore and China.
Malaysian police made a third arrest on Thursday in their hunt for the people involved in his murder.The third person, whose nationality was not disclosed,was the friend of an Indonesian woman who was detained earlier in the day in connection with the killing of Kim Jong Nam at the airport in the Malaysian capital on Monday, police said.
“He was detained to facilitate investigations as he is the boyfriend of the second suspect,” said Abu Samah Mat, the police chief in Selangor state,told Reuters.
The Indonesian woman was remanded in custody for seven days along with another woman, who held a Vietnamese travel document, who was caught trying to leave the country through the budget airline terminal of Kuala Lumpur airport on Wednesday, the Bernama state news agency reported.
Kim Jong Nam 46,was assaulted at the same airport on Monday with what was believed to be a fast-acting poison as he was about to leave on a flight to Macau,he sought help,collapsed and died on his way to hospital.
Lawmakers in South Korea earlier cited their spy agency as saying it suspected two female North Korean agents had murdered Kim.The U.S. government sources also said they believed North Korean assassins were responsible.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated,nuclear-armed state and he had also expressed fears for this safety.
South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers in Seoul that the young,unpredictable North Korean leader had issued a “standing order” for his elder half-brother’s assassination and that there had been a failed attempt in 2012.
North Korean agents have killed rivals abroad before.
Na wa o!!!
Updated February 17, 2017
Half brother to North Korean Leader, Kim Jong Un, has been killed in an attack in Malaysia,Kim Jong Nam,who was the older half-brother of Kim Jong Un was known to have spent most of his time outside of North Korea.
Media in South Korea say he had been poisoned at the airport in Kuala Lumpur by two women,as he waited for a flight to Macau.According to the reports, he suddenly fell ill and died on his way to hospital.The women believed to be North Korean operatives are still at large.
Once seen as a likely successor to Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Nam was thought to have fallen out of favour with his father when he tried to enter Japan using a false passport.He had told officials that he was planning to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Having lost out on becoming his father’s successor in 2011,Jong-Nam maintained a low profile,spending most of his time overseas in Macau, Singapore and China.
Malaysian police made a third arrest on Thursday in their hunt for the people involved in his murder.The third person, whose nationality was not disclosed,was the friend of an Indonesian woman who was detained earlier in the day in connection with the killing of Kim Jong Nam at the airport in the Malaysian capital on Monday, police said.
“He was detained to facilitate investigations as he is the boyfriend of the second suspect,” said Abu Samah Mat, the police chief in Selangor state,told Reuters.
The Indonesian woman was remanded in custody for seven days along with another woman, who held a Vietnamese travel document, who was caught trying to leave the country through the budget airline terminal of Kuala Lumpur airport on Wednesday, the Bernama state news agency reported.
Kim Jong Nam 46,was assaulted at the same airport on Monday with what was believed to be a fast-acting poison as he was about to leave on a flight to Macau,he sought help,collapsed and died on his way to hospital.
Lawmakers in South Korea earlier cited their spy agency as saying it suspected two female North Korean agents had murdered Kim.The U.S. government sources also said they believed North Korean assassins were responsible.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated,nuclear-armed state and he had also expressed fears for this safety.
South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers in Seoul that the young,unpredictable North Korean leader had issued a “standing order” for his elder half-brother’s assassination and that there had been a failed attempt in 2012.
North Korean agents have killed rivals abroad before.
Na wa o!!!
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