KILLER ‘PRANK’
Wait, that was real poison? A woman wearing an “LOL” shirt was busted in the fatal poisoning of North Korean despot Kim Jong-un’s half-brother — and told later cops she thought it was a “prank” and not an assassination.
Doan Thin Hoang, 28, was not laughing out loud when Malaysian police arrested her Wednesday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before she was able to board a flight to Vietnam.
Investigators identified her from surveillance footage they collected at a cab stand outside the airport’s departure terminal that showed Hoang in her “LOL” shirt.
Under questioning, Hoang told police that she thought Kim Jong-nam’s murder was nothing more than a “prank.”
“One of the girls was told to hold a handkerchief on the face of the victim after he’d been sprayed by the other girl,” a police source told The Telegraph of Monday’s murder. “She held it there for 10 seconds. She said she thought spraying him had been a prank.”
But things turned deadly serious when Kim staggered to an airport receptionist while he was on the verge of passing out, police said. The pudgy playboy was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Hoang’s alleged female accomplice was arrested in connection with the death Wednesday night. Four suspected male cohorts were still at large.
An autopsy was performed on Kim Jong-nam, but Malaysian authorities have not released the results.
Police do not have a motive for the crime, but all signs aere pointing to his powerful halfbrother, Kim Jong-un, with whom he had a rocky relationship.
Five years ago, Kim Jong-nam sent a letter to the tubby North Korean tyrant, begging the 33year-old to stop trying to kill him and his family, Reuters reported Wednesday.
“We have nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. We are well aware that the only way to escape is suicide,” Jong-nam wrote to Jong-un, who replaced their dictator dad, Kim Jong-il, after the dictator died in 2011.
As soon as Jong-un was anointed supreme leader, Jongnam became a vocal critic of his half-brother while living in exile after his 2001 arrest for possessing a fake passport.
That’s when the bad blood started between the half-siblings, with Jong-nam surviving two assassination attempts, in 2010 and 2011. Jong-un was believed to be behind both botched hits.
Until his embarrassing bust, Jong-nam was being groomed to succeed his father.