10 March 2017
After almost a month of intense speculation, police today confirmed that the North Korean who was murdered at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 on Feb 13, is indeed Kim Jong-nam.
This was announced to the media by Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar today.
"We have now established that Kim Chol is Kim Jong-nam," he said at the start of his press conference today.
Police, he said, had received all the necessary information to verify this. However, he declined to divulge further details.
![After almost a month of intense speculation, police today confirmed that the North Korean who was murdered at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 on Feb 13, is indeed Kim Jong-nam.](/images/news/kim-jong-nam-death-speculation.jpg)
"For the safety of the witnesses, we will not be divulging any explanation. I am not going to say more than that," he said, adding that police received the confirmation yesterday.
Khalid said police will soon hand over Jong-nam's body to the Health Ministry.
Asked on when the body will be released to the Health Ministry, Khalid simply replied, "whenever."
Jong-nam, the exiled half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was murdered at klia2 while waiting to board a flight to Macau on Feb 13.
He was travelling under the name Kim Chol.
He was attacked by two women, an Indonesian and Vietnamese, who had used a deadly VX nerve agent on him.
The attack was captured on CCTV. Jong-nam died on the way to the Putrajaya Hospital.
The two women have been charged with murder.
North Korea has since demanded the release of Jong-nam's body. Malaysia has rejected the request due to the murder investigation as well as the need to verify his true identity.
Original Source: nst.com.my
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