Two women to be charged with Kim murder: Malaysia
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KUALA LUMPUR - Two women arrested over the nerve agent assassination of Kim Jong Nam are to be charged with his murder, Malaysia said Tuesday.
The spectacular killing of Kim Jong-Un's half-brother with VX, a fast-acting poison developed for warfare, sparked an international probe and lurid stories of Pyongyang's Cold War-style tradecraft.
South Korea says its isolated neighbour was behind the assassination, and claims the North's agents engaged two outsiders to carry out the murder.
"They will be charged in court under Section 302 (murder) of the penal code," Malaysia's attorney general Mohamed Apandi Ali told AFP by text message, referring to the two suspects.
The women will appear in court on Wednesday. If convicted, they could face death by hanging.
