With the North’s reclusive government on the defensive about the Feb. 13 killing of Mr. Kim, the estranged half brother of Kim Jong-un, at the airport for the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur,
a statement attributed to the North Korean Jurists Committee said the greatest share of responsibility for the death “rests with the government of Malaysia” because Kim Jong-nam died there.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The poison used to kill Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un, was VX nerve agent, which is listed as a chemical weapon, the Malaysian police announced Friday.
In a short video clip, a panel of judges rejected Ms. Huong after she sang just one line:
“I want to stop breathing gloriously so that the loving memory will not fade.”
North Korea has called for the release of Ms. Huong, an Indonesian woman
and a North Korean man who are being held by Malaysia in connection with the death of Mr. Kim.
The statement said Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry and the local hospital first told the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
that Mr. Kim had died of “heart stroke,” asking North Korea to take the body and cremate it
In a brief statement, Khalid Abu Bakar, the national police chief, said the substance was listed as a chemical
weapon under the Chemical Weapons Conventions of 1997 and 2005, to which North Korea is not a party.
And in what could be seen as a threat to Malaysia, the statement noted that North Korea is a “nuclear weapons state.”
But in a case that has been filled with mysteries and odd plot twists, North Korea
still would not acknowledge that the man killed was indeed Kim Jong-nam.