Kim Jong Nam murder: Female suspects were groomed by suspected spy in China for past 3 months...

Straits Times ^ | FEB 17, 2017

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Kim Jong Nam murder: Female suspects were groomed by suspected spy in China for past 3 months, says report

FEB 17, 2017

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The two women suspected to have murdered North Korean Kim Jong Nam had apparently lived in China for the past three months before their deadly "assignment".

According to a report by Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper China Press, both Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 29, may not be North Korean agents, but were possibly duped by a spy ring into committing murder at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

Doan, a Vietnamese national, was arrested on Wednesday at KLIA before she could take a flight while Indonesian national Siti Aisyah was arrested at 2am a day later.

The two women were said to have lived in China for between one and three months to get to know a certain male individual. During this time, they also worked as female escorts, reported China Press.

The paper added that the man the women befriended was a spy who introduced Doan to the four men, whom police are hunting down in connection with the assassination.

Siti Aisyah got involved when Doan was asked by the man to find a partner to shoot a prank video.

The two women, who knew each other, apparently rehearsed the "spoof" many times and were able to carry out the process proficiently.

The report also said that Siti Aisyah was tasked with using a handkerchief to cover Jong Nam's face while Doan administered an injection.

The two women have claimed that they had no idea that it would lead to trouble as they thought it was only supposed to be a filming of the prank being carried out.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The two women have claimed that they had no idea that it would lead to trouble as they thought it was only supposed to be a filming of the prank being carried out.”

Well, if it was just a PRANK...no harm, no foul! ;)

We all need to take a knee and count our blessings that we do NOT live among full-throttle Communists.

God Bless Our Founding Fathers! We’re still hanging on, all these years later...in spite of ourselves! ;)

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Vietnamese woman cut hair, moved hotels, days leading up to Kim's murder

Fourth person arrested in Jong-nam murder probe

North Korea condemns Malaysia for withholding Kim Jong-nam's body [VIDEO]

North Korea says will reject Malaysian post-mortem of Kim Jong-nam

[gaijin]

The Norks understood the assasins would surely be caught, didn’t want to comprimise info internal to NK and so duped these credulous ho’s.

Smart.

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More details on the fourth arrest

Saturday, 18 February 2017

Fourth person arrested in Jong-nam murder probe

Saturday, 18 February 2017 | MYT 8:16 AM
Fourth person arrested in Jong-nam murder probe

BY FARIK ZOLKEPLI

KUALA LUMPUR: One of the four men sought by police over the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam has been detained.

It is learnt that the suspect was arrested after police raided a condominium in Jalan Kuchai Lama at about 11pm on Friday.

The 47-year-old suspect was found to be holding a North Korean passport at the time of arrest.

Three more men are being hunted by police in the investigation into Jong-nam's murder.

[SkyPilot]

I am sure the suspects are being treated well by the police and authorities.

< / sarcasm >

[TigerLikesRooster]

I think they are facing more than Malaysian authorities. Certain people with American accent are probably having up-close and personal conversation with them.:-) I wonder how much Chinese knew. It is possible that they knew and let it slide for some reason. Chinese are always tracking N. Korean operatives. If N. Koreans were doing it in Chinese territory without their knowledge, China will be upset. Whether that will lead to any serious retaliation is another matter, though.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yet the putzes wont take out the big demented leader.

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Here is the photo of Kim Jong-nam moments after the attack. It must be featured on the front page of New Straits Times. However, its web site only carries a tiny thumbnail shot, not the full-blown picture. The following is the front page image of the paper captured by S. Korean media.

Here is the thumbnail image at the website of New Straits Times.

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Update:

IGP: North Korean Ri Jong Chol is fourth suspect arrested

KUALA LUMPUR: The fourth suspect detained by police over the assassination of Kim Jong-nam has been identified as North Korean citizen Ri Jong Chol.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the 47-year-old suspect was detained at about 9.50pm on Friday.

Based on the i-KAD in his possession, the suspect was identified as Ri Jong Chol, born on May 6, 1970, a citizen of the Demoractic People’s Republic of North Korea, he said in a statement on Saturday.

The suspect was arrested after police raided a condominium in Jalan Kuchai Lama on Friday.

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Press Release on the Arrest of Ri Jong-chol

S. Korean media reports that there is a facebook account which may be his. The following is one of photos posted on his account. According to his facebook profile, he graduated from Kim Il-sung University in 2000, and IACS, Innovation Academic Charter School in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts in 2010.

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‘Siti told me she was in a North Korean movie’

18 February 2017

by farik zolkepli, loh foon fong, royce tan, justin zack, fatimah zainal, d.kanyakumari, andm.kumar

PETALING JAYA: A divorcee who has been arrested as one of the suspects in the high-profile murder of North Korean exile Kim Jong-nam was able to speak Korean and had always wanted to go to North Korea.

From the slums of Jakarta, the 25-year-old Siti Aisyah moved to the bright lights of Kuala Lumpur and has now become embroiled in a high-profile murder that gripped the world’s attention.

She had told her friends and family in Indonesia that she had been invited to act in a movie.

“She said the shooting would take place in North Korea,” a friend of Siti Aisyah told Detik.com, an Indonesian portal.

However, she did not give family and friends the details.

“I don’t know the details, she just said it was for a DPR office (North Korea). We ordinary people just listened to what she was saying,” said the friend, identified only as AZ.

Siti Aisyah is one of the two women who allegedly attacked Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, with a deadly chemical.

Siti Aisyah worked as a guest relations officer (GRO) at a spa in Ampang although she told folks in Indonesia that she had a job “selling tickets”.

Her nightlife job was hidden from her family in Indonesia, where she has a seven-year-old son named Rio. Rio lives with her former in-laws.

But one thing that Siti Aisyah’s mother Benah did know was that her daughter could speak English and Korean.

“I never knew she worked in Malaysia,” said Benah, 50, who thought her daughter was selling clothes at a market in Batam after divorcing her husband, Gunawan Hasyin alias Ajun.

She said that the last time Siti Aisyah went back to her village in Serang, near Jakarta, was on Jan 21. Aisyah had been sending money to Benah.

“Usually it’s 500,000 rupiah (RM170). But not every month,” Benah told the news portal.

Siti Aisyah’s mother-in-law Lian Kiong or Akiong, 56, told Indonesian Foreign Ministry officials yesterday that she and her family had no relationship with her since she divorced her husband Gunawan Hasyim.

A sealed handwritten letter of the divorce note dated Feb 1, 2012 was presented to the Foreign Ministry yesterday.

Signed by Siti Aisyah and Gunawan, with her then employer Lian Kiong as witness, the letter said the couple had opted for a divorce as they no longer “had the compatibility and harmony of husband and wife”.

Lian Kiong said that following the divorce, Siti Aisyah hardly visited her in-laws in Tambora in West Jakarta, and only came around once a year to meet Rio.

“After the divorce, she never came around. The last time she came was on Jan 28.

“She came and stayed for the night. She spent the night with my grandson and left the next day,” Lian Kiong was quoted as saying.

She added that Siti Aisyah’s son had previously even refused to meet his mother because he knew she would leave eventually.

According to another Indonesian news portal Kumparan, based on identification records held by her village of birth in Angke, west Jakarta, she had two separate entries, complete with different photos.

In the first one, her name is spelt as “Siti Aisyah” with information saying she was born in Serang, Indonesia, on Feb 11, 1992. In the accompanying picture, her hair is tied in a ponytail.

In the second entry, her name was written as “Siti Aisah” and her date of birth is listed as Nov 1, 1989. In this picture, her hair is worn loose.

The ID (identification) numbers as well as her occupation on both entries differed.

As “Siti Aisyah”, she listed her occupation as entrepreneur; as “Siti Aisah”, she listed her occupation as housewife.

Kumparan quoted Angke village head Dwi Ariyono as saying he did not know why Siti Aisyah had two separate IDs.

Siti Aisyah was arrested at a hotel in Ampang on Thursday after she was identified on CCTV footage from KL International Airport 2 (KLIA2).

Among the items seized by police in the room included three US$100 notes.

She was the second suspect detained for allegedly murdering Jong-nam. The first suspect was a woman who held a Vietnamese passport, identifying her as Doan Thi Huong, 28.

Siti Aisyah’s boyfriend, Muham­mad Farid Jalaluddin, 26, was also arrested on Wednesday.

Indonesian deputy ambassador to Malaysia Andreano Erwin said that the embassy in Kuala Lumpur had been unable to meet Siti Aisyah as of yesterday afternoon.

“We are still waiting for permission from the Malaysian authorities to see her,” he said.

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Assassins wipe, wash and flee the scene

BY FARIK ZOLKEPLI, LOH FOON FONG, ROYCE TAN, JUSTIN ZACK, FATIMAH ZAINAL, D.KANYAKUMARI, andM.KUMAR

KUALA LUMPUR: They wiped the deadly liquid on his face, darted into the bathroom to wash their hands and then left the scene.

That is how two women detained in investigations into the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam have described their actions at KLIA2 on Monday morning. It has since become one of the most high-profile murders to have occurred in Malaysia.

The women – Indonesian Siti Aisyah and another holding a Vietnamese passport under the name of Doan Thi Huong – led a police team to the airport at about 1am yesterday to re-enact Monday’s attack on Jong-nam.

It is learnt that the two suspects led the police team to Level 3 of the departure hall and told police what happened.

Both women described their actions of wiping a type of liquid on the face a man who they claimed they did not know.

“They claimed they left the area once it was done,” said sources, adding that the women then went to a nearby restroom to wash off the liquid.

It was unclear whether the women wore gloves or even used a piece of cloth to carry out the attack.

Siti Aisyah also told police that she was offered US$100 (RM445) by a man to carry out the act, which she believed to be a prank on a man.

The man who paid her and three others – all foreign men – were seen on CCTV footage at the airport with Siti Aisyah and Thi Huong.

[Larry Lucido]

“She said the shooting would take place in North Korea,”

Well, she has been on film, and has been in the headlines. The only thing that didn’t happen was the shooting in NK but that could have happened too.

[Candor7]

I am sure the suspects are being treated well by the police and authorities.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

In Malaysia, suspects talk right away or the degree of interrogation takes on the veil of permanent injury.

This the rapid progress of the investigation.

Water boarding works. And its not torture.

[Candor7]

Siti Aisya ( including photo):

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/02/17/jong-nam-murder-siti-aisyah-background/

Doan Thi Huong ( Including photo)
https://vn.sputniknews.com/asia/201702162944080-doan-thi-huong-nghi-pham-giet-kim-jong-nam/

(Use Google translate: Vietnamese to English))

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Why cant they take out the brother the same way??

[fishtank]

Because “they” were sent by the brother HIMSELF.

[AdmSmith]

From NST: “It is also understood that the masterminds had been tracking his movements for about a year to establish his travel pattern, which included flying between Macau, Singapore and Malaysia.

http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/02/213393/police-identifying-4-n-korea-operatives-video

It is very unlikely that China was unaware of this.