How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
No one from the regime will stand trial over the death of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, leading to fears it will act again
The morning of 13 February 2017 was like any other at Kuala Lumpur’s hectic international airport terminal so it would have been easy to miss a lone North Korean man, clad in a blue polo shirt and jeans, heading to check into his flight to Macau.
As he ambled past a column, a backpack slung over one shoulder, a woman approached him and wiped an oily substance on his face before disappearing, her unusual actions caught on CCTV. Moments later, another woman came from behind and covered his eyes with her hands. She then slid them down over his mouth, quickly apologised and walked away.
Less than 20 minutes later the, the victim of an assassination carried out with the nerve agent VX, one of the most deadly chemical weapons in the world.
