League title. Hello and welcome. Police in the say a highly toxic nerve agent called vx has been found on the face of kim jong nam, the murdered half brother of north koreas leader kim jong un. Mr kim died last week after two women accosted him briefly in a check in hall at Kuala Lumpur Airport. The nerve agent, vx, is classified as a Weapon Of Mass Destruction by the United Nations. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from kuala lumpur. Last week at Kuala Lumpur Airport someone chose to attack Kim Jong Nam Last week at Kuala Lumpur Airport someone chose to attack kim jong nam in full view of at least half a dozen cctv cameras. It was a very deliberate and very public act of violence. Today we learned what killed him. And its even more shocking. It is the vx nerve agent, which is a chemical weapon. Kim jong nam was walking across this busy Departures Hall last week when he was attacked at this spot. Now we know what was used to kill him, vx, one of the most deadly nerve ag
child reese father s first marriage and should have succeeded him as leader but by the early two thousand he d fallen out of favor from exile in macau he criticized his half brother s rule and called for reforms. reason enough to have him killed according to south korean and u.s. officials who blame the north korean regime for his murder. and denies all involvement but tried unsuccessfully to prevent malaysian authorities conducting an autopsy the results showed that kim jong nam was killed with a nerve agent v.x. the murder sparked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries can join them as body was returned to north korea in march part of a deal securing the release of malaysian citizens from the reclusive state. so was kim jong noms murder the result of a years long thought by pyongyang north korea has a long history of ordering killings to silence its opponents d.w. met with one defector who fled the regime and says that his life is still in danger
a court earlier today amid tight security as expected they pleaded not guilty to the attack with a deadly nerve agent the pair say that they were tricked into believing that they were part of a prank for a reality t.v. show they face the death penalty if convicted. and there are still so many unanswered questions surrounding that murder u.s. and south korean officials say that it was a cold war style assassination orchestrated by north korea a charge that denies let s take a look now at what we know. the last images of king john now alive on february thirteenth two women robbed a liquid into his face at kuala lumpur airport he reported the incident to airport staff saying he felt unwell he was taken to the airport clinic and thought on the way to hospital. kim jong nam was the older half brother of north korean dictator kim jong il they share the same father former supreme leader kim jong il. was the
. for one north korean dissident this us a nation of kim jong nam last february wasn t merely new. hope has been on the north korean government list for years. a bodyguard only takes him round the clock to me and his and my life is always in danger in two thousand and eleven north korea ordered a spy to assassinate me with a poison dart the following year a north korean came to shoot me later someone brought a homemade bomb to my hotel to there was a letter sent to me threatening not only to kill me but my whole family. grew up in a privileged family in pyongyang he worked his way up until he got to post it to provoke on the ministry by ninety nine thousand nine. and the north korean elite he and his father defected to the south soon a pox on her life took a tragic turn. i lived quietly and saw for three years in two thousand
child reese father s first marriage and should have succeeded him as leader but by the early two thousand he d fallen out of favor from exile in macau he criticized his half brother s rule and called for reforms. reason enough to have him killed according to south korean and u.s. officials who blame the north korean regime for his murder pyongyang denies all involvement but tried unsuccessfully to prevent malaysian authorities conducting an autopsy the results showed that kim jong nam was killed with a nerve agent v.x. the murder spot a diplomatic crisis between the two countries can join them his body was returned to north korea in march part of a deal securing the release of malaysian citizens from reclusive state. so was kim jong noms murder the result of a years long plot by pyongyang north korea has a long history of ordering killings to silence its opponents d.w.