Warning: Graphic content, readers’ discretion advised. This story contains a recollection of crime and can be triggering to some readers discretion advised.
Two beautiful women, one of the world’s deadliest poisons and a paranoid dictator with a plot to kill his rival. It’s a chilling story of espionage & intrigue worthy of a gripping spy novel. Steve Pennells reports on the audacious and very public airport assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s unsuspecting half-brother, and the accusations it was orchestrated by the Supreme Leader himself. This story originally aired in 2017.
Murder doesn’t get more brazen than this .an assassination carried out by two young women..
in full view.
The killing ordered by a ruthless dictator, using a weapon of mass distraction.
It’s the most toxic substance that a man has ever made.
the tafrget was a pudgy unassuming 45 year old korean kim jong – nam .
half-brother of north korea’sderanged leader kim jong -ung.to the dictator, his brother had always been a threat
because of his closeness to their father,the previous ruler of this totalitarian state.
Alex huang owns a korean resturant in kuala lumpur and may have been the closest thing kim jong -nam had to a friend.
The blood ties put a target on the half-brother’s back
kim jong -un has benn ruthless in holding on to power killing hundreds of potential rivals.
including his own uncle
and the assassination of kim jong -nam was bizarre in the extreme. a plot that began with a search for a pair of hit women to do the job.
It’s not the first lace you’d look for an assassin but it’s here in the heart of kuala lumpur nightclub district where a group of north korean agents recruited two young women for their mission.
the girls claimed they were duped into thinking they were taking part in an innocent prank.but were they really as naive as they say?
Or were they willing participants in a murder .
behind clsoed doors there’s a thriving sex trade in conservative malaysia.
an industry that draws thousands of young women from neighbouring countries.
one who sought a new life in kuala lumpur was 28 year old Doan Thi Huong ,who’d appeared on TV talent shows in her native vietnam.
but left to work in malaysia in what she called an entertainment outlet.
another arrival was 25 year old indonesian Siti Aisyah who found work in a massage parlor.
she was approached to take part in a TV prank show by a young man called james.
On february 13th 2017, siti was instructed to go to kuala lumpur international airport to perform the prank. she claimed she didn’t know Doan Thi Huong .The vietnamese girl who was there on the same mission
A senior korean agent who called himself chang was there to supervise and this time there was something different about the liquid she was given.
VX is the ultimate chemical weapon ,less than a pinhead size of the X is enough to kill agrown person.
chemical weapons ecpert hamish de bretton gordon believes north korea is one of only a handful of countries with the capability to manufactureVX.
North koreans have made and produced VX and could have up to 5000 tons of the stuff in north korea.
The stage is was set.
this is kim jong- nam arriving at the airport for his flight to macau
he checks in under the alias kim chol, three other north korean agents now now joing chang at the coffe chop
opposite the check-counters ,they settled in to watch.
was this a murder that north koreans wanted to happen quietly? or was it something that was staged for the world to see ?
It all happens in a few seconds. kim jong- nam reels away from the attack,shocked seemingly dazed .
he staggared to the information counter and is helped downstairs
to airport medical center.where he collpases as the poison does its work .
as kim jong-nam lies dying downstairs in the medical center the killers are making their escape, the two assassins head out the front door and back into kuala lumpur, the four north korean agents strate through the departures and onto a flight .
their final destination pyongyang.-home
malaysia police arrested the two young women
and began to follow the poison trail back to pyongyang.
a charge the north korean government angrily rejects.
in a cast of unlikely charachters alajandro caldebono is surely the most bizarre cow. a spaniard special representative of the north korean foreign ministry
and claims the police not only have the wrong suspect -they don’t even have the right victim.
so who was murdered in the airport ?
according to alajandro caldebono,citizen kim cholin all documents in his passport.
and claimed they don’t know and try to clarify why someone kill this person ,if he was really killed ,if it was not a plot from their own south korean intelligence.
as far as western intelligence is concerned the plot was devised by kim jong -un, who purposely ordered the use of VX poison to send a message to the world.
it now seems all the north korean agents have escaped santion.
three suspects hold up in the north korean embassy in kuala lumpur have been allowed to leave the country.
but the two young women charged with murder seemed doomed.
Siti is adamant she’s innocent.but that may not save her .
in malaysia ,if your’re charge for murder ,there’s only one penalty that is death by hanging. no other penalty.
and even if the women were to somehow walk free, they may forever be themselves a target.
and as for the rest of us, well… we know they have weapons of mass destruction,now they shown their willingess to use them.
