Update: Kim Jong Nam's death body has no puncture wounds

Kim Jong Nam didn't have a heart attack and the medics who conducted his autopsy found no obvious puncture
marks or wounds, a top Malaysian health official
said Tuesday, compounding the mystery over the North Korean's death.

Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, the director-general of Malaysia's Ministry of Health, addressed a packed room of journalists at the morgue where Kim's body is being held, saying that the cause of death won't be released until lab tests from the autopsy are completed.

No next of kin has come forward to claim the body, he said. Authorities in South Korea believe that Kim, the older, estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was poisoned before he died
on February 13. His death is being investigated as murder.

In an interview on Tuesday, North Korean defector Thae Yong Ho said that he wasn't surprised by the news, adding that Kim Jong Un could also kill him.

"Even if North Korea denies it, North Korean elites would 100% believe that the North is behind it, given how many executions have taken place so far under the North Korean regime," Thae said. "Even his uncle, Jang Sung Taek, was killed."

A South Korean think-tank affiliated with the country's intelligence agency (INSS) thinks at least 340 people have been ordered executed
since Kim took power in December 2011.

Thae added that if Kim Jong Nam was killed under Kim Jong Un's orders, it would highlight
the leader's paranoid state. "The existence of Kim Jong Nam is not really a threat to the North Korean regime," Thae said.

On Monday, security footage surfaced that appeared to show the assault on Kim Jong Nam
shortly before his death.
When asked about reports that Kim had been poisoned, Abdullah reiterated that his department was waiting on lab results before making any
conclusive statements.