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AFP, KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police probing the killing of the half-brother of North Korea\u2019s leader arrested a woman Wednesday as they tried to unravel a Cold War-style assassination the South said was carried out by Pyongyang\u2019s agents.<\/p>\n
As Seoul pointed the finger at poison-wielding female spies from North of their shared border, police in Kuala Lumpur said they were holding a woman with a Vietnamese passport.<\/p>\n
Her arrest came around 24 hours after news broke of the death of Kim Jong-Nam, the elder sibling of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, with reports saying female assassins had sprayed toxins in his face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.<\/p>\n
CCTV images that emerged in Malaysian media, purportedly of one of the suspects, showed an Asian woman wearing a white top with the letters \u201cLOL\u201d emblazoned on the front.
\nMalaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said 28-year-old Doan Thi Huong was arrested at the airport on Wednesday morning\u2014two days after the killing.<\/p>\n
The suspect was \u201cpositively identified from the CCTV footage at the airport and was alone at the time of arrest,\u201d Khalid said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, pathologists in the Malaysian capital examined the body for clues as to how he died, in a killing that has echoes of Soviet-era spycraft.<\/p>\n
If confirmed, the assassination, which analysts said could have been ordered over reports he was readying to defect, would be the highest-profile death on Kim Jong-Un\u2019s watch since the 2013 execution of his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, in a country with a long record of meting out brutal deaths.<\/p>\n
South Korea\u2019s spy chief Lee Byung-Ho said the two women struck on Monday morning as Kim was readying to board a flight to Macau where he has spent many years in exile.
\nMalaysian police said Kim, a portly 45-year-old, was walking through the departure hall when he was attacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told the receptionist… someone had grabbed his face from behind and splashed some liquid on him,\u201d Selangor state\u2019s criminal investigation chief Fadzil Ahmat was reported as saying by Malaysia\u2019s The Star newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked for help and was immediately sent to the airport\u2019s clinic. At this point, he was experiencing headache and was on the verge of passing out,\u201d said Fadzil.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the clinic, the victim experienced a mild seizure. He was put into an ambulance and was being taken to the Putrajaya Hospital when he was pronounced dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
An autopsy at Kuala Lumpur Hospital\u2019s forensics department was completed by Wednesday evening, Selangor Police Chief Abdul Samah Mat told AFP, but said no results had yet been issued by the hospital.<\/p>\n
A black Jaguar sedan bearing the North Korean flag was seen outside the department, and four officials wearing flag pins were observed within the forensics compound. The officials left the department around 8pm (1200 GMT) without commenting to reporters.<\/p>\n
No party had yet laid claim to the body, Abdul Samah said.
\n\u201cAs for now the body will be kept at the Kuala Lumpur morgue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kim, 45, had at one time been set to assume the leadership of his isolated country, but fell out of favour after an embarrassing attempt to get into Japan on a fake passport in 2001.<\/p>\n
Kim has since lived in exile, gaining a reputation as something of a playboy with much of his time spent in the gambling enclave of Macau, where he was believed to have enjoyed some protection from Chinese security forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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