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| The killing of Kim Jong-nam was organised by North Korean state ministries reporting to his half-brother Kim Jong-un, South Korean officials have said. | The killing of Kim Jong-nam was organised by North Korean state ministries reporting to his half-brother Kim Jong-un, South Korean officials have said. |
| South Korean politicians, briefed by the country's security services, said eight North Korean suspects in the killing had been identified, including four officials of the state security ministry and two officials of the foreign ministry. | South Korean politicians, briefed by the country's security services, said eight North Korean suspects in the killing had been identified, including four officials of the state security ministry and two officials of the foreign ministry. |
| Officials said Kim Jong-nam was killed by North Korean agents in an airport in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. | |
| Malaysia said an autopsy showed he was poisoned with VX nerve agent and died within 20 minutes. North Korea has not acknowledged the death. | |
| Also on Monday, South Korean politicians said North Korea had executed five senior security officials for making false reports to leader Kim Jong-un, again citing National Intelligence Service (NIS) reports. | |
| National Assembly member Lee Cheol Woo said the intelligence agency told politicians that five North Korean officials in the department of recently purged state security chief Kim Won-hong were executed by anti-aircraft guns. It's not clear what false reports they were accused of making. | |
| The NIS has a mixed record when reporting North Korea intelligence, according to the Associated Press. | |
| Malaysian health minister Subramaniam Sathasivam said on Sunday that the dose of VX given to Mr Kim was so high that he showed symptoms within minutes. Mr Kim fainted at the airport clinic and died in the ambulance while en route to a hospital, he said. | |
| “VX only requires 10 milligrams to be absorbed into the system to be lethal, so I presume that the amount of dose that went in is more than that,” he said. “The doses were so high and it did it so fast and all over the body, so it would have affected his heart, it would have affected his lungs, it would have affected everything.” | |
| Asked how long it took for Mr Kim to die after he was attacked, Mr Subramaniam said: “I would think it was about, from the time of onset, from the time of application, 15-20 minutes.” | |
| Malaysia hasn’t itself accused the North Korean government of being behind the attack, but officials have said four North Korean men provided two women with the poison to carry it out. The four men fled Malaysia on the same day as the killing, while the women – one from Indonesia and the other Vietnamese – were arrested. |