Malaysia has stepped up security checks at all border crossings to stop North Koreans linked to the murder of the estranged half-brother to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un from leaving the country, Malaysia’s police chief told Reuters.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has stepped up security checks at all border crossings to stop North Koreans linked to the murder of the estranged half-brother to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un from leaving the country, Malaysia’s police chief told Reuters.
So far, prosecutors have charged two women – an Indonesian and a Vietnamese – with the murder of Kim Jong Nam on Feb. 13, in an assassination using a super toxic VX nerve agent that killed the victim in minutes.
While two women were seen on security camera footage assaulting Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, police are looking for others involved in the operation, including whoever supplied them with the VX, which is listed by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction.
U. S. officials and South Korean intelligence believe the assassination was run by agents from secretive, nuclear-armed North Korea.
Malaysian police identified eight North Koreans wanted in connection with the case, but the only one they apprehended, a man named Ri Jong Chol, was released on Friday due to insufficient evidence and was set to be deported after a week in custody.
