North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un half-brother,Kim Jong-nam was yesterday assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur international airport on his way to Macau.
Kim Jong-nam was assassinated after being attacked by two women with a "poisoned needles", and after the assassination took a taxi and left the airport.
He died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital.
Jong Nam is known for speaking against the North Korean government, and speak publicly against his family dynastic control of the country. He went into hiding in Malaysia after his uncle,Jang Sung-thaek was assassinated in North Korea.
He was a child from the non-marital relationship his father had with a South Korean-born actress who later died in Moscow. He was also supposed to be heir to the Kingdom, but he fell out of favour after he was detained in Japan on a forged passport.
Though authorities in Malaysia arrested a lady while travelling on a Vietnamese document, the police have not released further information of the arrest, and her accomplice remain at large.
The Investigation
The North Korean officials in Malaysia had asked the Malaysian officials not to conduct an autopsy into the death of Kim Jong-Nam, a request that the Malaysian officials refused.
The body of the estranged brother was taken to the hospital by the hospital for an autopsy, and the North Korean officials, and stayed late at the hospital, workers at the hospital said they ordered a KFC.
Malaysian police is yet to decide if it would hand over the body to the North Korea officials.