Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin

X-RATED EXECUTION Sexy assassin used chemical weapon

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KIM Jong-un’s outcast halfbrothe­r was murdered using a banned chemical weapon, Malaysian police say.

The latest sensationa­l twist in the shocking killing came as sexy new snaps emerged of one of the supposed assassins.

Malaysia’s inspector general of police said analysis showed the dead man had traces of the VX nerve agent on his eyes and face. It is classified as a weapon of mass destructio­n by the UN.

Kim Jong-nam was murdered in broad daylight at Kuala Lumpur Airport on February 13 in a poisoning straight out of the pages of a spy novel. He died shortly after he was accosted by two women who put a substance on his face as he checked in for his flight to Macau.

Jong-nam’s death has unleashed a diplomatic crisis that escalates by the day.

Speculatio­n continues to grow that Pyongyang dispatched a hit squad to Malaysia to kill the exiled older brother of North Korea’s despotic leader. North Korea has denounced Malaysia’s investigat­ion as full of “holes and contradict­ions” and accused its authoritie­s of being in cahoots with Pyongyang’s enemies.

Police have not said how Doan Thi Huong or Siti Aisyah, who are both in custody, were able to apply the nerve agent to Kim’s face and avoid becoming ill themselves. It is not known if they were wearing some sort of thin gloves or if washing their hands quickly removed the danger.

“It’s a very toxic nerve agent. Very, very toxic,” Dr Bruce Goldberger, a leading toxicologi­st, said. “I’m intrigued that these two alleged assassins suffered no ill-effect from exposure to VX. It is possible that both of these women were given the antidote.”

Meanwhile, racy pictures of Doan Thi Huong — who was captured on CCTV after the assassinat­ion in a LOL shirt at the airport — have been released amid speculatio­n she was once a contestant on the Vietnamese version of Pop Idol.

Malaysia has three people in custody over the murder.

 ??  ?? Doan Thi Huong in one of the sultry snaps released yesterday.
Doan Thi Huong in one of the sultry snaps released yesterday.
 ??  ?? Doan Thi Huong (above) on CCTV after killing Kim Jong-nam (left).
Doan Thi Huong (above) on CCTV after killing Kim Jong-nam (left).

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