VX nerve agent

The identification process of the exhibits, which were stored in a sealed plastic bag, was done at the laboratory of the department for safety reasons.

HKL's Dr Mohd Shah Mahmood says there was also no DNA comparison done on the body of Kim Chol, an alias for Kim Jong-nam.

Kim Jong-nam or Kim Chol, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was confirmed to have died due to acute poisoning by VX nerve agent, the High Court here was told today.

For the prosecutors preparing for the first court hearings later this month, some of the mysteries behind Kim Jong Nam's death inside a Malaysian airport terminal will likely never be resolved.

Two foreigners who are facing a charge of murdering Kim Chol, or Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un will be brought before the Sepang Court again.

Conducting of investigation by outsiders including North Korean agents into the murder of Kim Jong-nam here is against the law, says Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.

Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar today confirmed the identity of the man who was killed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) as Kim Jong Nam.

Malaysia has said assassins used VX nerve agent, a chemical listed by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction, to kill Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother, Kim Jong Nam.

Airport frontline authorities at KLIA and klia2 are all geared up to execute the order barring North Korean citizens from leaving the country.

Those ties have unravelled spectacularly in barely three weeks after the lethal poisoning of Kim Jong Nam with the highly toxic VX nerve agent VX nerve agent in klia2.

Malaysia has been outraged by the murder of the North Korean leader's estranged half brother at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13 by assassins using VX nerve agent.

North Korea said on Monday it has designated the Malaysian ambassador to the country as "persona non grata"

The family of North Korean chemist Ri Jong-chol, detained over the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, might have gone into hiding.

North Korea said the claim that VX nerve agent was used to kill one of its citizens in Malaysia was "absurd" and lacked scientific basis, calling it an assertion made by the U.S. and South Korea.

Malaysia said today it will not share with international bodies information on the investigation into the murder of North Korean Kim Jong-nam until the entire legal process has been completed.