Final moments of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother captured in shocking image
He will be remanded for seven days.
The Chinese commerce ministry said the suspension was in accordance with United Nations sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programmes and would come into force on Sunday.
The police have already arrested three people over his death – a woman who holds a Vietnamese passport, an Indonesian woman, and a Malaysian man who is believed to be the Indonesian woman’s boyfriend. Two male suspects remain at large. Speaking to reporters outside the morgue late on Friday, Pyongyang’s ambassador said Malaysian officials may be “trying to hide something” and “colluding with hostile forces”. “He felt dizzy, so he asked for help at the. counter of KLIA”, Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat said.
At about 6.15pm, three police vehicles were seen entering the compound and a man, who looked like a Korean, alighted from one of the cars and was heavily guarded by police.
Authorities have identified her as Siti Aisyah, 25, originally from Serang in Banten, a province that neighbors the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Reports said that Siti Aisyah, a divorcee, worked as a guest relations officer at a spa in Ampang.
Aisyah is said to have protested her innocence to Malaysian authorities about the assassination, which took place at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 on Tuesday.
“She was identified based on CCTV footage at the airport and was alone at the time of arrest, ” Inspector General of Police Khalid Bin Abu Bakar said, as reported by The Star.
At the National Institute of Forensic Medicine at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, 20 local and foreign journalists were seen waiting for the latest developments in the case which has attracted worldwide attention.
His mother was one of the dictator’s favored mistresses, actress Song Hye-rim, and for a while Kim Jong Nam was the most public of his father’s sons. But the country’s top cop said Malaysian rules must be followed. “Why would she go and stay in a hotel in the same city, so close to the airport?”
Because it is so reclusive, intelligence on North Korea is very thin and the North Korean regime is likely to balk at the prospect of Malaysia – and potentially other intelligence services – having DNA information that could be used for other purposes. Yonhap news agency said a second autopsy is being planned.
Meanwhile, North Korea’s Ambassador to Malaysia Kang Chol on Friday said the DPRK government would reject the results of any autopsy on Kim Jong Nam, while also accusing the Malaysian government of working with the North’s enemies.
Local investigators are still trying to piece together details of the case.
Kim Jong-nam was on his way to the Chinese territory of Macau, where he had been reportedly residing under China’s protection.
“This is a Malaysian investigation, the crime happened in our country and we have processes and laws to deal with such matters”, Selangor police chief Abdul Samah Mat told CNN. He died while being taken to a hospital.