Malaysia has requested Interpol to put an alert out to apprehend four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, Malaysia’s police chief said today.
Kim Jong-Nam, who was killed in Kuala Lumpur’s main airport on February 13, had spoken out publicly in the past against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
South Korean and U.S. officials say he was assassinated by North Korean agents. But North Korea has not acknowledged his death.
Speaking to reporters today, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the two women – one Vietnamese, one Indonesian – arrested last week had been paid for carrying out the fatal assault on Kim Jong Nam using a fast-acting poison.
He declined to say if they had been used by a foreign intelligence agency.
According to Reuters News Agency, police are also holding one North Korean man, but are seeking another seven in connection with the murder.
