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Malaysia will count on allies if N. Korea wants war, says defence minister BY KAMLES KUMAR KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Malaysia will count on its international allies if the diplomatic situation with North Korea goes south, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today. The defence minister said Malaysia may not have enough military assets compared to Pyongyang if the two countries went to war, but it has other ways to counter the reclusive state which has nuclear weapons in its arsenal. “We will deal with it when the time comes, but don’t think we are only dependent on our own...

Kim Jong Nam's body 'can be claimed soon' KUALA LUMPUR • The body of Mr Kim Jong Nam, which is in the mortuary of Kuala Lumpur Hospital, could possibly be claimed over the next two weeks by the North Korean Embassy or by the country's leader, Mr Kim Jong Un, who is his kin, the New Sunday Times (NST) reported yesterday, quoting an unnamed source. As the deceased has been positively identified by the Malaysian authorities as the estranged half- brother of Mr Kim Jong Un, "standard government protocols in handling an unclaimed body have kicked in", the newspaper said....

Face moles prove it's Jong-nam (Left) Kim Jong-nam on the cover of the book ‘My Father Kim Jong-il and I’. (Right) The tattoo on Jong-nam’s torso. These secondary identifiers allow the authorities to establish the body as Jong-nam’s. By Farrah Naz Karim And Aliza Shah - March 11, 2017 @ 11:38am ANEW set of evidence has surfaced to match the body that has been lying at Kuala Lumpur Hospital morgue since Feb 15 to Kim Jong-nam. This evidence, which emerged after the police yesterday officially declared the body as Kim-Jong-nam’s, is uniquely traced to the estranged half-brother of North Korean...

Police identify body as Kim Jong-Nam's (Updated) Posted on 10 March 2017 - 05:33pm Last updated on 11 March 2017 - 01:04pm Timothy Achariam KUALA LUMPUR: Police have positively identified Kim Chol who was killed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 on Feb 13 as Kim Jong-Nam. Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar made the announcement today but refused to divulge further details on how police made the identification. "I'm not going to tell you how we identified the body due to the security of witnesses," he said. He said that police have fulfilled its criteria...

Video of man claiming to be Kim Jong Nam's son emerges Posted 08 Mar 2017 08:42 Updated 08 Mar 2017 09:11 KUALA LUMPUR: A YouTube video has emerged in which a man claims to be Kim Han Sol, son of the murdered North Korean believed to be Kim Jong Nam. The video titled KHS Video was uploaded on the YouTube page of a group called Cheollima Civil Defense on Tuesday (Mar 7) which contacted Channel NewsAsia after posting it. "My name is Kim Han Sol, from North Korea, part of the Kim family," the man says in the video. "My...

Kim Jong Nam's Murder Likely Means Dangerous Times Ahead for Members of North Korea's Ruling Family Charlie Campbell / Beijing 4:55 PM As the fallout from the assassination of Kim Jong Nam continues, more details are emerging about what sparked his murder, with possibly grave consequences for other members of North Korea’s ruling family. On Tuesday, North Korea banned Malaysian diplomats from leaving North Korea in response to the investigation into the death of Kim Jong Nam, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, who police say was poisoned with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13....

N. Korea Temporarily Bans Malaysian Citizens inside the Country from Leaving Translated Headline Only. No Details Yet.

North Korea orders expulsion of Malaysian ambassador SEOUL, March 6 — North Korea said today it has designated the Malaysian ambassador to the country as “persona non grata” and demanded the envoy leave the country within 48 hours from 10am on Sunday, its official KCNA news agency said.

Malaysia expels North Korean ambassador KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — Wisma Putra has declared North Korea’s ambassador to Malaysia Kang Chol a “persona non grata” and has given him 48 hours from 6pm today to leave the country. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said Kang failed to show or send a representative when summoned to attend a meeting with Raja Nushirwan Zainal Abidin, his ministry’s deputy secretary-general for bilateral affairs at 6pm today. “For this reason, the Ministry has via a Diplomatic Note sent to the Embassy this evening, informing the DPRK government that His Excellency Mr. Kang Chol...

(EXCLUSIVE) Jong-nam's tattoos to aid identification process [VIDEO] By Farrah Naz Karim And Aliza Shah - March 3, 2017 @ 7:05am KUALA LUMPUR: Strong evidence, which could finally put an end to the dispute over whether it was really Kim Jong-nam who was assassinated in klia2 on Feb 13, has surfaced. The evidence — tattoos on Jong-nam’s body that match his documented history — will enable investigators to draw direct links between the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the body that has been lying in the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL)’s morgue since Feb 15. This critical...

Kim Jong-nam Agreed to a Meeting with Ishii, Former Minister of Home Affairs, Eleven Days before his Assassination 2017.3.1 /begin excerpts In an interview with Sankei Shimbun on Feb. 28 regarding the murder of N. Korea's Kim Jong-nam, Ishii Hajime, former Minister of Home Affairs, clearly indicated that Mr. Kim planned a meeting with him in Macau on Mar. 1. Mr. Ishii has been involved for a long time in normalizing diplomatic relationship with N. Korea. It is possible that Kim Jong-nam was pursuing a separate attempt to improve relation between two countries, independent of Kim Jong-un, Chairman of N....

North Korea sends delegation to claim Jong-nam’s body KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 ― North Korea has sent a delegation of diplomats to Malaysia to retrieve Kim Jong-nam’s body and to seek the release of a North Korean arrested in the murder. The delegation includes Ri Tong-il, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Nations. Ri told reporters outside the North Korean embassy here that the delegation was here to discuss a “humanitarian issue” and three other questions. “Number one: the question of the return of the body of the deceased, a DPRK citizen who died in the Malaysian airport...

Seoul's spy agency warned Kim Jong-nam of safety last year SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's spy agency sent a safety warning last year to the North Korean leader's half brother who was killed earlier this month, lawmakers said Tuesday. An official from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) was quoted as telling the National Assembly's Intelligence Committee Monday that it sent a message to Kim Jong-nam that he was the target of a possible attack. It was delivered through a third party in the second half of 2016, he added. The NIS official made the remarks in response to...

Czech Republic has no info on threats against Kim Jong-un's uncle: report SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- The Czech government has no information on threats to the safety of Kim Pyong-il, both North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's uncle and the reclusive nation's ambassador in Prague, a U.S. news report said Tuesday. It has not taken any additional measures to toughen the security of the North Korean Embassy in Prague where Kim Pyong-il works, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA). The report came amid rumors that the 63-year-old North Korean ambassador could face the threat of assassination in the wake of...

Kim Jong-Nam case: Three in custody likely to be charged for murder on Wednesday Posted on 27 February 2017 - 09:17pm Last updated on 27 February 2017 - 09:22pm Charles Ramendran PETALING JAYA: A North Korean chemist and two foreign women held over the death of Kim Jong-Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, are expected to face murder charges Wednesday. The remand order on the two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, a spa masseur, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 29, an entertainment outlet worker, who were detained within two days after the victim's death expires on...

Kim Jong-nam 'killed by VX nerve agent found on his face' Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, was killed by a highly toxic nerve agent, says Malaysia. Mr Kim died last week after two women wiped a substance over his face in a check-in hall at Kuala Lumpur airport. Malaysian toxicology reports have identified the chemical as "VX nerve agent", classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

Kim Jong-nam's next-of-kin to arrive in M'sia in day or two: Police BY AHMAD FAIRUZ OTHMAN - 23 FEBRUARY 2017 @ 3:40 PM MUAR: A next-of-kin of Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader, is expected to arrive in Malaysia in one or two days’ time, to assist police in identifying his body. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the relative lives “not far from Malaysia” and is expected to aid in the process of identification, which has yet to be carried out. Noor Rashid reemphasised that to date, none of Kim's family members...

<p>Two North Koreans suspects in the murder of Kim Jong-nam are believed to be "hiding" inside Pyongyang's embassy in Malaysia, security sources have told the Telegraph.</p> <p>Tensions between the two countries are high following the killing of the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, North Korea's "Supreme Leader", at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last Monday.</p>

<p>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN)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.</p>

/begin translation N. Korean Defector's Association, "Proposed Kim Jong-nam to Head the Government-in-exile...but He Opposed Third Generation Hereditary Rule" Yoo Ji-han 2017.02.21 Representatives from defector's organizations both inside and outside S. Korea proposed Kim Jong-nam to be a head of N. Korean government-in-exile, but he refused, arguing, "That is another third generation hereditary rule." In an interview with Donga-ilbo on Feb. 19(local time,) Kim Ju-il, the Secretary-general of International North Korean Defector's Association based in UK, said, "I have been in contact with Kim Jong-nam for last year and a half, asking him to head the government-in-exile." According to the...