Kim death: Interpol warrant for N. Koreans
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INTERPOL has issued an international arrest warrant for four North Koreans wanted by Malaysian investigators in connection with the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the country’s police chief said yesterday.
The estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was poisoned with the lethal nerve agent VX in a brazen Cold War-style killing on February 13 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Two women — one Vietnamese and one Indonesian — have been arrested and charged with the murder. Airport CCTV footage shows them approaching the victim and apparently smearing his face with a piece of cloth.
Investigators are also seeking seven North Korean suspects, four of whom left Malaysia on the day of the murder. The police chief has said he believes they fled to Pyongyang while the other three are hiding in North Korea’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
“We have ... obtained a red notice for the four North Korean nationals who were at the airport on the day of the incident and who have since left,” police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters.
“We ... are hoping to get them through Interpol.”
The red notice alerts police in Interpol member countries to share any information on the suspects with a view to potentially arresting and extraditing them. North Korea is not part of that network.
The Interpol notice posted online shows four North Korean men aged between 32 and 56. They are named as Hong Song Hak, Ri Ji Hyon, O Jong Gil and Ri Jae Nam.
Pyongyang has denounced the Malaysian investigation as an attempt to smear the country, insisting that the 45-year-old most likely died of a heart attack.
Malaysia officially confirmed his identity last Friday, later revealing that authorities used his fingerprints and a DNA sample from one of his children to do so.
The killing has triggered a bitter row between Malaysia and North Korea, which have expelled each other’s ambassadors.
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