KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian armed guards on Tuesday stood watch at the hospital holding the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated half-brother of North Korea’s leader, amid reports his son had come to Kuala Lumpur to claim the remains. A white police van was seen leaving at 4:00 am (2000 GMT Monday), an AFP journalist said. On Monday night Jong-Nam’s son Kim Han-Sol was due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur from Macau, local media and intelligence sources said, but AFP was not immediately able to verify his presence. Pyongyang’s envoy to Kuala Lumpur on Monday dismissed the request for a DNA sample as "preposterous" and said the embassy had the right to reclaim the body of a diplomatic passport holder. The drama erupted last Monday as Kim Jong-Nam waited at the budget terminal of Kuala Lumpur’s main airport for a flight to Macau.

Source: Viet Nam News February 21, 2017 03:42 UTC