Kim Jong-nam

Police arrest third suspect in Kim Jong Nam assassination

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korean-assassination-second-woman-arrested-in-malaysia/2017/02/15/fcab451d-cb1f-45e4-8600-514e11135602_story.html?utm_term=.1708cf54fa8d

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Three people have now been arrested in connection with the apparent fatal poisoning of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, including a Malaysian man held to “assist” in the investigation, police said Thursday.

The man, 26-year-old Muhammad Farid bin Jalaluddin, has been identified as the boyfriend of an Indonesian woman arrested earlier Thursday, suspected of being one of the two women who carried out the brazen attack at Kuala Lumpur airport this week on Kim Jong Nam, the older half-brother of Kim Jong Un.

“Suspect is currently remanded in custody to assist investigation,” Khalid Abu Bakar, the inspector general of police, said in a statement.

Kim Jong Nam, 45, was attacked by two women at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday as he went to check in for a flight to Macau, his main base since he went into exile about 15 years ago. They grabbed him and sprayed some kind of poison on his face.

He sought medical help at the airport but died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Surveillance video captured the two women leaving the scene by taxi, sparking a nationwide hunt for them.

One woman, who was traveling on a Vietnamese passport that identified her as 29-year-old Doan Thi Huong, was arrested Wednesday as she tried to fly out of Kuala Lumpur.

She told police she was tricked into attacking Kim Jong Nam, saying she thought she was just playing a prank on the man, the Star newspaper reported.

She also said she was abandoned by the other woman and four men who were involved in the attack. They had all been staying at a hotel not far from the airport, she told police, and when they left her, she decided to fly to Vietnam from the terminal where the attack took place.

A second woman, identified as Siti Aishah, a 25-year-old Indonesian, was arrested early Thursday.

“She was also positively identified from the CCTV footage at the airport and was alone at the time of arrest,” Abu Bakar said in an earlier statement.

It was not immediately clear whether the women were using fake passports. But the Indonesia Foreign Ministry confirmed, based on information provided by the Malaysian police, that Aishah is an Indonesian citizen, and it has requested consular access to her.

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Kim Jong-nam

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Kim Jong-nam (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김정남; Hanja: 金正男; 10 May 1971 – 13 February 2017) was the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea from 1994 until 2011. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered to be the heir apparent to his father and the next leader of North Korea.Following a much-publicized botched attempt to enter Japan using a fake passport and visit Tokyo Disneyland in May 2001, he was thought to have fallen out of favor with his father.

From at least 2003 onwards, Kim Jong-nam lived in exile outside North Korea. His younger paternal half-brother Kim Jong-un was named heir apparent in September 2010. In exile, Kim became known as an occasional critic of his family's regime and an advocate for reform. Kim Jong-nam died in Malaysia, in February 2017, under suspicious circumstances. It is believed that he was assassinated supposedly by North Korean agents, carried out when two women at the airport injected him with poison. He was believed to be traveling under the name of Kim Chol at the time

On 14 February 2017, South Korean media reported that Kim was assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia by two unidentified women, speculated to be North Korean agents. As the individual in question was travelling in Malaysia under the pseudonym "Kim Chol", Malaysian officials have not formally confirmed that Kim Jong-nam was the man killed; however, the South Korean government has said it is certain Kim Jong-nam was the deceased.

Malaysian police confirmed Kim died while being transferred from the airport to a hospital, but said the cause was not yet known. Later in the day, Malaysian Criminal Investigation Department director Mohmad Salleh told the media, "There's no sign that suggests Kim was murdered". Malaysian government officials have claimed that North Korean officials in the country objected to any form of autopsy being conducted on Kim's body. Initial reporting mentioned some form of poisoned spray or needles being used. Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat told The Star that Kim had alerted a receptionist, saying "someone had grabbed him from behind and splashed a liquid on his face", also telling BERNAMA that a woman "covered [Kim's] face with a cloth laced with a liquid". The South Korean National Intelligence Service, as well as various unnamed agencies of the U.S. government, believe that Kim was poisoned at the airport. If confirmed, it would be the most high-profile death linked to North Korea since Jang Sung-taek was executed in 2013. According to NHK, South Korean intelligence officials confirmed that the dead man is indeed Kim Jong-nam, as the body's fingerprints matched Kim's, which had been previously obtained by the South Korean intelligence agency

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Kim Jong-il

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Kim Jong-il (Korean pronunciation: [kimdʑʌŋil]; 16 February 1941/1942 – 17 December 2011) was the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea, from 1994 to 2011. By the early 1980s Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of the country and assumed important posts in the party and army organs. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung, following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Chairman of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world. Kim's leadership is thought to have been even more authoritarian than his father's.

During Kim's regime, the country suffered from famine, partially due to economic mismanagement, and had a poor human rights record. Kim involved his country in state terrorism and strengthened the role of the military by his Songun, or "military-first", politics. Kim's rule also saw tentative economic reforms, including the opening of the Kaesong Industrial Park in 2003.

In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was amended to officially refer to him (and his later successors) as the "supreme leader of the DPRK". The most common colloquial title given to him during his reign was "The Dear Leader" to distinguish him from his father Kim Il-sung, "The Great Leader". Following Kim's failure to appear at important public events in 2008, foreign observers assumed that Kim had either fallen seriously ill or died. On 19 December 2011, the North Korean government announced that he had died two days earlier, whereupon his third son, Kim Jong-un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling WPK and succeeded him. After his death, he was designated as the "Eternal General Secretary" of the WPK and the "Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission", in keeping with the tradition of establishing eternal posts for the dead members of the Kim dynasty.