WMD nerve agent was used to kill Kim brother
VX poison blamed as bikini picture of suspect emerges
THE brother of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un was killed by VX – the most toxic nerve agent in the world.
Police in Malaysia confirmed that Kim Jong-nam, 46, collapsed and died after two women allegedly wiped the highly poisonous substance across his face.
The development came as a picture emerged of Vietnamese woman Doan Thi Huong – who has been arrested over the murder – posing in a bikini during a motor show in Hanoi last year.
One of the women vomited after the attack because of her exposure to VX, which is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the UN.
A 100th of a gram can kill within 30 minutes and a drop on a cloth would have been enough to take Jong-nam’s life.
Experts say its use proves the playboy prince was assassinated on the orders of his half-brother after he criticised the secretive communist regime in 2012.
Interpol will now be asked to help trace seven North Koreans linked to the murder, including a diplomat and an airline official said to be in hiding in the country’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
The hermit state has accused Malaysia of having “sinister” purposes and claimed Jong-nam died of a stroke – but police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said yesterday that VX had been detected in swabs taken from Jong-nam’s eyes and face.
He also confirmed one of the women suspects had fallen ill after the attack on January 13 at Kuala Lumpur airport.
The terminal where Jong-nam collapsed will be decontaminated along with areas the suspects are known to have visited.
Police are investigating how the banned substance might have entered Malaysia.
Jong-nam’s body remains in a hospital mortuary despite an attempted break-in.
North Korea said any suggestion the country was involved in the murder was a “conspiratorial racket” by old enemy South Korea.