Lunacy.
posted at 8:41 am on February 22, 2017 by Ed Morrissey
The backfire over the assassination of Kim Jong-nam continues to grow in Malaysia, which until last week was one of the few countries willing to do business with North Korea. Police in Kuala Lampur have an APB out for the second secretary of the North Korean embassy as one of the masterminds of the plot that killed the dissipated older half-brother of dictator Kim Jong-un, and also seek one other member of the embassy staff:
Malaysian investigators want to talk with a senior North Korean diplomat in connection to the poisoning death of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The development comes as the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lampur insists no poison was used. “The Malaysian Inspector General says authorities have added two North Korean suspects to their list — including the second secretary of North Korea’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur,” NPR’s Elise Hu reports for NPR’s Newscast unit. “He stopped short of accusing the North Korean regime of being behind the attacks, saying only that it’s clear that North Koreans were involved.”
For its part, Pyongyang insists that they had nothing to do with the murder, and neither do the two women seen on video surveillance carrying it out. Malaysian police have determined that the women used their hands to apply the poison directly to Jong-nam’s face and then quickly washed it off their hands before it could poison themselves. North Korea issued a statement calling that theory “a delusion”:
Seeking to debunk the police theory, North Korea’s embassy issued a statement Wednesday that reads in part, “the liquid they daubed for a joke is not a poison and there is another cause of death for the deceased.” Referring to the video recording, the statement calls it a “delusion” that the women would have “daubed the poison on the victim’s face with their own hands.”
The Kuala Lampur embassy insists that the death came from some other cause than poisoning, and that the women were indeed involved in nothing more than a TV prank.
