UNITED NATIONS: North Korea's Permanent Representative to the United Nations has denied that the man assassinated in Malaysia was the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and that the United States and South Korea should be blamed for the killing. Kim In-ryong told the media here Monday that the case of the assassination "is the product of reckless moves of the United States and South Korean authorities aimed to ... tarnish the image of the dignified DPRK and to bring down the Socialist system". However, he acknowledged that the man who was poisoned to death at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb 13 by two assailants was a North Korean citizen with a diplomatic passport. The ambassador said Washington wanted to "store up international repugnancy towards the DPRK ... to provoke nuclear war against the DPRK at any cost". Kim also said the US and South Korean assertion that the assailants were unaffected while applying VX to a victim was an "absurdity".

Source: The Star March 14, 2017 04:01 UTC