DNA Confirms Assassination Victim Was Half Brother of Kim Jong-un, Malaysia Says
By RUSSELL GOLDMANMARCH 15, 2017
The Malaysian authorities sought on Wednesday to definitively put to rest a nagging question about the brazen assassination of a man in Kuala Lumpur’s international airport
last month: They said he was indeed Kim Jong-nam, estranged half brother of Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, because they had DNA confirmation from a relative.
North said that I once again confirm that the body is that of Kim Jong-nam,
In February, North Korea sent a former United Nations ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital, to claim the body,
but the authorities would not release it, saying at the time they needed DNA to confirm the victim’s identity.
The police are looking for at least seven suspected North Korean accomplices, including
a diplomat believed to be hiding in the North Korean Embassy in Malaysia.
Malaysian officials said that Mr. Kim’s body had been embalmed and that his family would be given several weeks to claim it.
A report in The New Straits Times, citing unidentified Malaysian officials, said investigators had
used the pattern of moles on the man’s face and a distinctive tattoo to confirm his identity.