Kim Jong-Nam
The body of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN, Kim Jong-Nam, who died in the attack, was embalmed. It is reported by Malaysian newspaper the Star.
As told reporters the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Malaysia Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, this measure was necessary in order to preserve the remains. “If the corpse continue to keep in the morgue, it can decompose,” explained the Minister.
Body kept in the morgue of the hospital Kuala Lumpur for more than a month since 13 February, when the capital’s airport was killed, a citizen of North Korea with passport in the name of Kim Chol. According to the Malaysian police, it was Kim Jong-Nam, brother of North Korean leader Kim Than the UN. The leather men had traces of the nerve agent VX, prohibited by the international chemical weapons Convention. South Korea have argued from the outset that the victim was the brother of the leader of the DPRK. Pyongyang does not recognize.