Judge Says Kim Jong-nam’s Murder Could Be Political, No Evidence to Prove It

Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of the Korean leader Kim-Jong-un, was allegedly killed in Malaysia in February 2017 with a nerve agent by two women. They have later pleaded not guilty, stressing they thought it was a part of a reality TV show.

A court ruled out to proceed the prosecution against Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who are suspected of killing Kim Jong-Nam in the airport of Kuala-Lumpur last year.

"I must accordingly find that the prosecution had made out a prima facie case against the accused persons and I must, therefore, call upon them to enter their defense on their respective charges," judge Azmi Ariffin told the Shah Alam High Court on Thursday.

According to the prosecution, the women smeared smear something, that appeared to be a powerful toxin, on Kim Jong Nam’s face.

Defense lawyers, in turn, stated that the incident was a politically motivated assassination, while the women were beguiled into participating in it. They accused people, linked to the North Korean embassy in the country of orchestrating the attack.