NORTH ISSUES PLOT APOLOGY

North Korea has issued an informal apology to Vietnam for involving one of its citizens in the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother in Malaysia, South Korean press reports have claimed.

The reports cite a South Korean government official as saying that North Korea “belatedly apologized” for the alleged recruitment by the son of a former ambassador, of Doan Thi Huong, pictured. Huong, 29, and Siti Aisyah, 25, an Indonesian, are standing trial in Kuala Lumpur for the murder of Kim Jong Nam.