Half-brother of N Korean leader Kim assassinated in Malaysia
February 14, 2017 21:05
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported today.
The agency quoted a Seoul government source as saying Kim Jong-Nam was killed yesterday. The source gave no further details.
Officials in Seoul were not immediately available for comment.
The 45-year-old was poisoned by two unidentified female agents using poisoned needles at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, according to South Korean broadcaster TV Chosun.
The report, citing what it called multiple government sources, said the two women hailed a cab and fled immediately afterwards.
In Malaysia, the police chief in charge of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Assistant Commissioner Abdul Aziz Ali, told a news agency that a Korean in his forties was found sick at the airport yesterday.
Airport authorities rushed him to the hospital and he died on the way, the police chief said.
"We do not have any other details of this Korean man. We do not know his identity," Abdul said.
Kim Jong-Nam was once considered heir apparent but fell out of favour with his father Kim Jong-Il following a botched attempt in 2001 to enter Japan on a forged passport and visit Disneyland.
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