Two North Korean Ministries orchestrated the plot to kill Kim Jong-nam on the orders of Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-un, South Korea’s spy agency said on Monday.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said four of the eight suspects behind the murder worked for Pyongyang’s Ministry of State Security, with two others being from the Foreign Ministry, Yonhap reported.
“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.”
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un died earlier this month after a suspected poisoning while on his way to catch a flight to Macau from Kuala lumpur Airport. Malaysia said an autopsy showed he was poisoned with VX nerve agent and died within 20 minutes.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry slammed Pyongyang for using VX nerve agent, which is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.
