Kim Jong Nam’s alleged killers thought nerve agent was baby oil

There is speculation that a binary version of VX was used to kill Kim, with each woman separately applying a non-fatal element of the nerve agent on his face. She thought she was taking part in a “Candid Camera”-style TV prank, she told cops”.

Siti Aisyah didn’t know she was handling poison and thought the liquid given to her was baby oil, Erwin said after meeting her at the police station Saturday, according to the New Straits Times.

Huong gained notoriety after Malaysian police shared CCTV images of the 28-year-old at the airport wearing a top emblazoned with “LOL” shortly after the high-profile assassination. An amount no smaller than a few grains of salt can kill, and after the odourless chemical has been inhaled, swallowed or absorbed, it can cause symptoms from blurred vision to a headache.

After grabbing at his face the two women quickly walk away in different directions.

This photo taken on February 11, 2007 shows a man believed to be then-North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s eldest son, Kim Jong-Nam, walking among journalists upon his arrival at Beijing’s worldwide airport. Her name has previously been reported as So Yong La.

“She doesn’t want her family to see her condition”, Erwin said after a 30-minute meeting with Aisyah.

The man Malaysian authorities have identified as Kim Jong-Nam died while being rushed to hospital after complaining to medical personnel that he felt ill after a woman attacked him with a chemical spray as he prepared to board a flight to Macau at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2).

Authorities meant to decontaminate the airport, along with other locations visited by suspects, amid concern VX could have evaporated into the air.

Abdul Samah Mat, the police chief leading the investigation, said authorities would give the diplomat “reasonable” time to come forward.

North Korea has a long history of terror attacks and assassinations involving poison needles, bombs, and other tactics, but the incident in Malaysia is outside the norm.

There were were also no fresh arrests made by police since Jong-chol was held on Feb 18 but the search for three other wanted North Koreans including the North Korean embassy’s second secretary Hyong Kwang Song, 44 continues.

While South Korea said on 19 February that it believed the North Korean regime was behind the death of Mr Kim, Malaysian authorities have not accused Pyongyang of carrying out the killing.

It’s labeled a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations and is “probably the most sophisticated nerve agent that has been developed”, says Charles Duelfer, a former USA intelligence officer and weapons inspector and former head of the fact-finding mission that looked for weapons of mass destruction – including VX – in Iraq. Although a cocktail of drugs can serve as an antidote, VX acts so quickly that victims would have to be injected with the antidote nearly immediately to have a chance at survival.

Although the murder investigation is still ongoing, South Korea asserts that Pyongyang murdered Kim Jong-nam.