Malaysia: Kim Jong-nam killed by nerve gas

kuala lumpur - Police in Malaysia on Friday announced that the murder of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is equipped with a powerful nerve agent known as VX nerve agent. That concludes the police taken based on traces of the eye and the face of North Korean Kim Jong-nam. Which are then analyzed by a Malaysian chemielab.

VX nerve agent is a chemical weapon that is on the list of weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations. Kim Jong-nam died several hours after he was attacked at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, where he was waiting for a flight to Macau.

The Malaysian police arrested two women, one Vietnamese and one Indonesian, which had been paid to commit the murder. The police further eight North Korean suspects in mind. One of the eight was arrested. Thursday, Malaysia has done through Interpol issued an international arrest request for four other North Koreans.

One of the two women who are suspected of the murder of Kim Jong-nam also suffered from the effects of nerve gas. 'They had to surrender', the Commissioner of the Malaysian police announced on Friday. Police reported earlier that the women had washed their hands quickly before they left the airport.

Authorities are still investigating whether the poison Malaysia is introduced or in the country itself is manufactured.