
Following an autopsy, his tissue, urine and blood samples have been sent to a laboratory for analysis, which might take a week. It was reported that Kim had high blood pressure when he died. The paper said the man police might be looking for could be a 40-year-old agent from the North Korean intelligence agency known as the Reconnaissance General Bureau. 'His eyes were shut and he appeared to be grimacing in pain.'Īnd in a startling claim the New Straits Times said it had been told there was a likelihood that one of the assailants who approached Kim - one from the front to distract him, the other to grab him around the throat from behind - was a man disguised as a woman.

The paper said it had seen footage of Kim, who was wearing a dark blue polo T-shirt, light blue jeans and brown shoes, slumped in an armchair.

It comes as a second woman named as Siti Aishah, 25, from Indonesia and her Malaysian boyfriend Muhammad Farid Bin Jalaluddin, 26, were arrested over the death. Police sources said Doan - which may be a false name - had told officers that she had been convinced by another woman and four men to play a prank on Kim and it was never her intention to kill or even hurt him and she thought it was 'a harmless joke'. She was named as the woman captured on CCTV at Kuala Lumpur Airport wearing a white t-shirt branded with LOL and a blue skirt. It has also been claimed that a man dressed as a woman helped assist the killing by holding Kim from behind.ĭoan is believed to have told police she was 'abandoned' by a group she was on 'holiday' in Kuala Lumpur with after allegedly applying a toxin to his face.

Today it emerged that the suspect may have been tricked into the murder of Kim Jong-un's brother by 'friends' who told her to 'wipe poison on him as a prank'.

The 'LOL assassin' who has been named as Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam, was led out of a building and into a police car by officers in Kuala Lumpur on suspicion of murdering North Korean Kim Jong-nam. The woman accused of killing Kim Jong-un's brother was pictured in handcuffs as she was arrested by Malaysian Police today.
