Interpol help sought over 4 NK suspects
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MALAYSIA has requested Interpol to put an alert out to apprehend four North Korean suspects in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Malaysia’s police chief said yesterday.
Khalid Abu Bakar said the two women — one Vietnamese, one Indonesian — arrested last week had been paid for carrying out the fatal assault on Kim Jong Nam using a fast-acting poison.
The police chief declined to say if they had been used by a foreign intelligence agency.
Police are also holding one North Korean man, but are seeking a further seven in connection with the killing.
Hyon Kwang Song, a second secretary at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and Kim Uk Il, an employee of state-owned airline Air Koryo, are among three North Koreans wanted for questioning.
They are still believed to be in Malaysia.
Khalid told reporters that a request had been made to Interpol to put out an alert to apprehend the other four, who are believed to have made their way back to North Korea, having fled Malaysia on the day of the killing.
Khalid said a police request has been sent to the North Korean embassy requesting to interview the diplomat and airline employee.
“If you have nothing to hide, you should not be afraid to cooperate, you should cooperate,” Khalid said.
He said an arrest warrant would not be issued for the embassy official, as he had diplomatic immunity, but that “the process of the law will take place” if the airline official did not come forward.
Malaysian police had still to receive DNA samples from Kim Jong Nam’s next of kin, Khalid said.
He denied Malaysian police officers had been sent to Macau, where Kim Jong Nam and his family had been living.
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