North Korean man arrested over killing of Kim Jong-nam

A North Korean national has been arrested over
the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's
half-brother, Malaysian police say.
The first North Korean to be arrested over Kim
Jong-nam's death was named as Ri Jong Chol,
46.
An Indonesian woman, a Malaysian man and a
woman with a Vietnamese passport were detained
earlier.

Police believe poison was sprayed into Mr Kim's
face as he waited to board a flight from Kuala
Lumpur to Macau.

Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid
Hamidi formally confirmed on Thursday that the
dead man, who was travelling under the name Kim
Chol, was Kim Jong-nam.
Police say the latest suspect was detained on
Friday evening in Selangor, near the Malaysian
capital. No further details were given.

A history of foreign assassinations and
kidnappings Indonesia's national police chief said on Friday one of the detained women, an Indonesian national named as Siti Aisyah, said she had been paid to perform what she thought was a prank.

A Malaysian man thought to be her boyfriend was
detained along with her.
The woman carrying a Vietnamese passport has
been identified as Doan Thi Huong.

Kim is believed to have been attacked in the
airport departure hall on Monday by two women,
using some form of chemical.
A grainy image taken from security camera
footage, which has been broadcast in South Korea
and Malaysia, shows a woman wearing a white T-
shirt with the letters "LOL" written on the front.
It is not clear whether either of the detained women is the woman in the footage, and police say they are still looking for "a few" other suspects.

Police have now finished Kim Jong-nam's post-
mortem examination, though the results have not
yet been made public.
North Korea has meanwhile demanded that
Malaysia immediately release the body. Malaysia is
refusing to do so until it receives a DNA sample
from Mr Kim's next-of-kin.
South Korea's intelligence agency has accused the
country's rivals in the north of assassinating Kim
Jong-nam, saying Pyongyang had wanted to kill him for years but that he was being protected by
China.
Despite widespread speculation that North Korea was behind the killing, there has been no proof.
Pyongyang has made no public comments on the
issue.
Kim was largely estranged from his family, after being passed over for the North Korean leadership in favour of his youngest half-brother. He spent most of his time overseas in Macau, mainland
China and Singapore.

He had spoken out in the past against his family's dynastic control of North Korea and in a 2012 book was quoted as saying he believed his younger half-brother lacked leadership qualities.

But he had said he was not interested in assuming
the leadership himself.