SEOUL, Feb 28 – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un ordered the killing of his half-brother Kim Jong-Nam, CNN reports today. Citing South Korea’s spy agency, CNN said two North Korean ministries orchestrated the assassination. Lawmakers in Seoul, who were briefed by the country’s intelligence officials, said the North’s foreign ministry and ministry of national security had recruited the two female suspects in Kim’s murder.
“The assassination of Kim Jong Nam was an act of systematic terror ordered by Kim Jong Un,” South Korean lawmaker Kim Byung-kee said in a televised address. “The operation was conducted with two assassination groups and one supporting group.” North Korea has consistently denied any involvement in the killing and accused South Korean media of publishing “false reports”.
Meanwhile, the BBC reported that South Korea’s intelligence agency believed that four of the North Korean men suspected of involvement in the killing are spies. Four of the seven suspects named by Malaysia work for Pyongyang’s ministry of state security, intelligence officials in Seoul told MPs, it added. The South Korean intelligence agency didn’t specify which of the North Koreans wanted by Malaysia were spies.
