Despite the request to
release the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated half-brother of North
Korea's leader, the Malaysian government has revealed that they will not grant
the request until his family have provided DNA samples.
So far no family member
or next of kin has come to identify or claim the body. We need a DNA sample of
a family member to match the profile of the dead person. North Korea has
submitted a request to claim the body, but before we release the body we have
to identify who the body belongs to, Selangor state police chief Abdul Samah
Mat told AFP.
Late Kim Jong-Nam was
killed on Monday morning in Malaysia after two women squirted some kind of
liquid in his face, as he waited to board a flight in Kuala Lumpur to Macau,
where he was living in exile.
Two female assassins in
connection to his death have so far been arrested. They were said to have been
sent by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un to carry out the attack on Kim
Jong-Nam, who have always stood against his regime. According to a Malaysian
forensic investigator, DNA from a child,
sibling or even half-sibling would be enough to provide a 'kinship match' to
confirm the identity before his body is released.
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