[N.Korea]Who Killed Kim Jong Nam? Son Of Ex-North Korean Envoy To Vietnam Is Mastermind, Report Says

IBTimes ^ | 03/22/17 | ISHANI ROY

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Who Killed Kim Jong Nam? Son Of Ex-North Korean Envoy To Vietnam Is Mastermind, Report Says

Amid the mystery surrounding the assassination of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, sources said Wednesday that a North Korean suspect involved in the murder of Kim Jong Nam is the son of a former top North Korean envoy to Vietnam. Ri Ji Hyon, 33, the suspect, apparently persuaded an Asian woman to commit the murder, which took place in Malaysia on Feb. 13, by talking fluent Vietnamese, Yonhap News Agency reported.

Ri had lived in Vietnam for about 10 years, sources said. He previously worked as a trainee diplomat at the North Korean Embassy in Vietnam for more than a year in November 2009. The fluency in Vietnamese language allegedly helped him convince Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese, into killing Kim Jong Nam. Huong and another Indonesian woman, Siti Aishah, allegedly killed him by smearing the banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent on his face, according to Yonhap.

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Jong Nam murder suspect caught playing snooker in embassy

KUALA LUMPUR: A man wanted by the police to facilitate investigations into last month’s murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was recorded busy playing snooker at the North Korean Embassy here.

On Monday, All-Nippon News Network (ANN News), operated by Asahi TV, aired the one-minute video footage showing the suspect resembling Kim Uk Il, busy playing the game with a few others on the second floor of the embassy building in Jalan Batai, Bukit Damansara.

Video of the Suspect Playing Snooker

Probe by N. Korean agents illegal, says IGP

KUALA LUMPUR: Any parallel investigation into the murder of Kim Jong-Nam by any party, needs the clearance of the police or it will be deemed illegal, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said today.

He said that any investigation that goes on in the country whether they are foreign agents or even legal authorities, needs the clearance of the police.

"If they want to investigate anyone for that matter, not only agents and spies, even legal authorities need our (police) clearance," he said.

When asked if independent probes were illegal, Khalid said: "It is illegal because they are not empowered no powers to question people no powers to look into documents,"

He was saying this in response to a report that North Korean agents are conducting their own parallel investigation in Malaysia into the incident after Malaysian police rejected their proposal for a joint probe into the murder.

Report: Kim Jong Nam assassination cripples North Korea businesses

March 22 (UPI) -- Southeast Asian sources of North Korea foreign currency earnings are rapidly dwindling in the aftermath of the assassination of Kim Jong Un's older half brother Kim Jong Nam.

Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai reported Wednesday the development is part of a larger trend that has culminated in the shutdown of 130 North Korea-operated restaurants in China and in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia.

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“Son Of Ex-North Korean Envoy To Vietnam Is Mastermind”

Weren’t there those two Asian chicks at the airport? What happened to them?

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They are in jail, awaiting their trial.

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“They are in jail”

...Where perhaps, they’d be kept barefoot, pregnant and out of trouble.