One and a half years after the deadly poison attack on the half-brother of Kim Jong-Un in Malaysia on Thursday (16.08.) the verdict against the two accused women are like. A Review.
Two young women were approaching on 13. February 2017 in the departure hall of the airport of Kuala Lumpur unnoticed a passenger. She rubbed him a liquid in the face. As it turned out later, it was the chemical weapon VX. The victim of the attack suffered soon under severe convulsions and died shortly afterwards, on the way to the hospital. The man had a North Korean passport that was issued in the name of Kim Chol. Later, the 46-year-old half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, it was announced that the death was the victim, Kim Jong Nam,.
The two women, the Indonesian Siti Aisyah and the Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, they admitted after her arrest two weeks after the fact that they were assumed to be part of a TV-prank with hidden camera. They had been approached by four North Koreans, which would be issued as Chinese and Japanese TV producers. Previously, she had a series of test runs, the alleged “RAID for fun” in Hotels, shopping malls, and the airport is completed. Than fees them had been converted promised to 85, or 170 euros. The four suspects North Koreans fled shortly after the assassination from Malaysia.
The accused women explained the process beginning at the 2. October 2017 not guilty. After the closing arguments by the prosecution and the defense at the end of June to now) this coming Thursday (16.08. a decision of the court, whether the two women acquitted, or whether you are prompted to take a final view of your defense.
In 2012, the book Kim Jong-Nams, “My father, Kim Jong Il, and I appeared in Hong Kong”. North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Un, the second son of Kim Jong-Ils, may in its legitimacy as the rightful heir and ruler by his half-brother threatened.
The Cause Of Death
As the only cause of death is acute intoxication was stated with the nerve toxin VX. VX is banned as a chemical weapon under the international chemical weapons Convention of 1992. VX were found on the face of Kim Jong-Nam, in his eyes, his blood, his urine and his clothes. The pathologist of the Malaysian government, Mohamad Shah Mahmood, said that the fastest absorption of the poison was probably via the conjunctiva of the eye. As soon as VX is absorbed in the bloodstream, “is a Chance of survival is minimal.”
The police claimed that Kim Jong-Nam was wearing only four diplomatic passports with the name Kim Chol, but also $ 100,000 in cash. May Kim had expected an attack of this kind, because he was wearing the antidote atropine, according to different Reports, in tablet or ampoule form.
The first-born illegitimate son of the former North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il lived for years in exile in Macau. He had lost the favor of his father. Some time before his death, Kim Jong-Nam had criticized the dynasty of the Kims. South Korean intelligence services assume, therefore, that his half-brother, Kim Jong-Un has ordered the assassination. However, North Korea denies government any involvement.
The defense, here the lawyer of the accused Vietnamese Doang Thi Huang, hold the evidence of the prosecution for a murder conviction is not sufficient.
The accused and the procedure
The two accused, the native of Indonesia, Siti Aisyah (above in the photo on the left) and the Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, in the investigation, to have the Kuala Lumpur Escort ladies are working on. Traces of VX were found on their clothes and Huongs nails. Video footage of the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV shows how both women run after the attack in two separate toilets and the hands of keep away. The investigators believe that is an indication that they knew they had to do it with a poisonous substance.
Prosecutor Wan shaharuddin if he wanted said in his closing statement at the end of June, the Version of the alleged TV-Trick, on the the defendants in had fallen for credibility. “For this action had to be formed. There could be no room for error.” Why not, would have grated in addition, the women, the victims, the substance in the eye to produce if the deadly effect? In the case of the action of the women is clear, “to identify an Element of aggressiveness”, of Humor and laughter is to be seen in the Video recordings. The prosecution cites, in addition to the Video recordings on the testimony of 34 witnesses. A total of 153 were loaded. Among the most important employees of the airport, doctors, pathologists and police officers. The involved North Koreans could not be interrogated.
The criminal defense argued, however, that the two accused had simply obeyed the instructions of the North Koreans. In addition, the women had not tried to leave the country, nor to dispose of their contaminated clothing. The not talking, that they knew what was going on. The two defenders of the two women before throwing the charge of “sloppiness” and “one-sidedness”.
North Korea’s Embassy in Malaysia had to be temporarily prior to the protests protected
The North Korean people behind Kim Jong-Un
The accused women knew the four North Koreans only under your nickname: Mr Chang, Mr Y, “grandfather” Hanamori and James. The court identified them later as Hong Song Hac, Ri, Ji Hyon, Ri Jae Nam, and O Jong-Gil. They all spent the Tatmorgen at the airport. According to investigators, the father “Hanamori was big” probably the mastermind and planner of the attack. Mr Chang and Mr Y would be short-poured before the fact a fluid at the hands of the women. The four have also been filmed by surveillance cameras. This showed that you wore before the fact, other clothing than afterwards. They also met with members of the North Korean Embassy, before Malaysia flight left like.
Three other suspects escaped questioning by the police, because they were hiding in the North Korean Embassy. A survey was not reached, because the Malaysian government agreed to an exchange, the three Suspects against nine Malaysian diplomats, who have previously been detained in North Korea, were exchanged.
One of the three suspects of North Korean chemists, Ri Jong Chol, has not only the four contact persons of the defendants drove to the airport, but in his apartment, a laboratory had been set up, where he may have made the VX-agent.
After Malaysia, as a response to the assassination attempt brought to its territory, its Ambassador to Pyongyang, in return, a ban on travel to North Korea to be imposed and the visa had finished-free entry to North Koreans, the signs are now on relaxation. Shortly before the Meeting between Trump and Kim Jong-Un in Singapore in mid-June, the new Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad announced the opening of the Embassy in Pyongyang. In Singapore, Trump defended his designation of Kim as a “very talented” after he had pointed out to an American Reporter unchallenged on the “known fact” that Kim’s family members to kill.