2 More Arrested in Killing of Kim Jong-un’s Half Brother, Malaysia Says
15, 2017
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two more people, one of them a woman with an Indonesian passport, were arrested Thursday in the assassination of Kim Jong-nam,
the half brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, the Malaysian authorities said as they continued to hunt for conspirators.
Even though Mr. Kim lived with his family in Macau, his body will be sent to North Korea at the request of the government
in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, the Malaysian news media quoted government officials as saying.
Kim Jong-nam, 45, was preparing to fly to his home in Macau from Kuala Lumpur on Monday morning when he was attacked
and poisoned by two women at Terminal 2 of the international airport, the authorities said.
Photographs from airport surveillance cameras leaked to the local news media show one woman waiting with passengers for a taxi outside the airport.
The police later said in a statement that Ms. Siti’s boyfriend, a 26-year-old Malaysian, had been
arrested "to assist in investigations." He was identified as Muhammad Farid Bin Jalaluddin.
The authorities were slow to confirm that Mr. Kim was the brother of North Korea’s leader
and initially identified him as Kim Chol, based on the passport that he was using to fly to Macau.
While the poisoning of Mr. Kim in a very public place conjured up images of spy movies, the plot appears to have been rather unsophisticated,
and the Malaysian police rounded up the first two suspects relatively quickly.
