The Untold Secrets Behind Kim Jong-Nam’s 2017 Assassination That Shook North Korea’s Power Struggle
Kim Jong-Nam’s Death After Being Attacked At A Malaysian Airport
The assassination of Kim Jong-nam took place on Feb. 13, 2017 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. The method of assassination was as unusual as it was effective: two women approached him separately in the departure hall, smeared a substance on his face, and disappeared.
Kim Jong-nam then sought help at an airport service counter, reporting that someone had wiped a liquid on his face. Airport clinic workers tried to help him, but it was clear that he was rapidly deteriorating.
“When I saw him, his hands were clutching his head,” the airport clinic doctor recounted, according to the Washington Post. “He was closing his eyes tightly and his face was very red. He was sweating profusely.”
Kim Jong-nam died en route to the hospital about 20 minutes later.
ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo A Malaysian newspaper story about Kim Jong-nam’s assassination.
The assassination shocked the world. It was public, it was precise, and it had been captured by security cameras. Footage showed two women — Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam and Siti Aisyah from Indonesia — approach Kim Jong-nam separately and apply the substances. One wiped his face with it. The other came up behind him and covered his eyes with her hands, slid her hands down to his mouth, then apologized and walked away.
The substance was later identified as VX nerve agent, a military-grade chemical weapon classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction and banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993.
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