Four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un fled Malaysia on the day he was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport and apparently poisoned, police said on Sunday.
A North Korean man, a Vietnamese woman and an Indonesian woman have been arrested already in connection with the death of Kim Jong-nam last Monday, which has triggered a diplomatic spat between Malaysia and Pyongyang.
“We believe the North Korean regime is behind this incident, considering five suspects are North Koreans,” Jeong Joon-hee, spokesman at South Korea’s Unification Ministry, told a briefing on Sunday.
