Four North Korean fugitives, wanted by police, allegedly planned and executed Kim Jong Nam’s assassination before escaping back to Pyongyang on Feb 17, according to a senior police source who told Channel NewsAsia
KUALA LUMPUR: Four North Korean fugitives, wanted in the probe into Kim Jong Nam’s murder in Malaysia, are believed to have planned and executed his assassination before fleeing back to Pyongyang, senior police sources told Channel NewsAsia.
“The four men planned and executed the assassination. They also recruited the two women,” a senior police source said.
Kim, the half-brother of North Korea’s President Kim Jong Un, died shortly after his face was swiped with liquid by a Vietnamese woman as he was distracted by her partner-in-crime, an Indonesian woman, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA 2) on Feb 13.
The liquid is believed to be poison.
The four wanted men are: Ri Ji-hyon aged, 33; Hong Song-hac aged 34; O Jong-gil aged 55 and Ri Jae-nam aged 57. They arrived in Malaysia between Jan 31 and Feb 7, Deputy Inspector General of Police Noor Rashid Ibrahim told a press conference on Sunday.
The revelation comes as North Korea’s envoy to Malaysia on Monday said the police investigation into last week’s murder at Kuala Lumpur International airport could not be trusted, and insisted the victim was not Kim Jong Nam.
