2 More Arrested in Killing of Kim Jong-un’s Half Brother, Malaysia Says<br />15, 2017<br />KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two more people, one of them a woman with an Indonesian passport, were arrested Thursday in the assassination of Kim Jong-nam,<br />the half brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, the Malaysian authorities said as they continued to hunt for conspirators.<br />Even though Mr. Kim lived with his family in Macau, his body will be sent to North Korea at the request of the government<br />in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, the Malaysian news media quoted government officials as saying.<br />Kim Jong-nam, 45, was preparing to fly to his home in Macau from Kuala Lumpur on Monday morning when he was attacked<br />and poisoned by two women at Terminal 2 of the international airport, the authorities said.<br />Photographs from airport surveillance cameras leaked to the local news media show one woman waiting with passengers for a taxi outside the airport.<br />The police later said in a statement that Ms. Siti’s boyfriend, a 26-year-old Malaysian, had been<br />arrested "to assist in investigations." He was identified as Muhammad Farid Bin Jalaluddin.<br />The authorities were slow to confirm that Mr. Kim was the brother of North Korea’s leader<br />and initially identified him as Kim Chol, based on the passport that he was using to fly to Macau.<br />While the poisoning of Mr. Kim in a very public place conjured up images of spy movies, the plot appears to have been rather unsophisticated,<br />and the Malaysian police rounded up the first two suspects relatively quickly.
