{"id":92152,"date":"2017-03-02T20:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92152"},"modified":"2017-03-02T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:36:37","slug":"n-korean-suspect-in-kim-jong-nams-murder-to-be-released-friday-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/02\/n-korean-suspect-in-kim-jong-nams-murder-to-be-released-friday-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean suspect in Kim Jong Nam&#8217;s murder to be released Friday &#8211; Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91031\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16996238_1363926130330699_5517238603229459141_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91031\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16996238_1363926130330699_5517238603229459141_n.jpg\" alt=\"North Korean national Ri Jong Chol, arrested over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, will be released and deported from Malaysia on Friday due to lack of evidence, Malaysian Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali said Thursday.   (Photo: Doyle Industries\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16996238_1363926130330699_5517238603229459141_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16996238_1363926130330699_5517238603229459141_n-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16996238_1363926130330699_5517238603229459141_n-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean national Ri Jong Chol, arrested over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of the country&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un, will be released and deported from Malaysia on Friday due to lack of evidence, Malaysian Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali said Thursday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doyleindustries\/photos\/p.1363926130330699\/1363926130330699\/?type=1&amp;amp;opaqueCursor=AbpwsM5F52Vgh4uqCR1_GLMciYYOJZVALPTG1G2lZuDrKPjryz8-wtVWkxWaZ-jXEy_ZwGEH42ZYJoYNexjrYX9Ji_uEgbzScADy-L5CEvckaaQt0rGsCe73iWUbhW3D7n7I_B1rQCuDLYqK9Ws-ke_nFIPPmbrp1UImaY8JY_3k_vkOHUEVbKXwNkeo9ERAcNjhn21hIh_2QPwbqc5FiDAcrnqP6psogzyZPpjOy9GDqfq4EcPWljuNubKpngATJbqV4nyRcG8gpsxttC96K7LZ7M9VWpDc6D2X8LL_1IsZtfO-akbZCDE9GsY0cjFzc3S2XBiShvP7oaK0JPX5RAwuINT8c_CXT_HGbmHkgbufpR7KxvFjQabrQSXyK8fNXHo&amp;amp;theater\">Doyle Industries\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO\u2014North Korean national Ri Jong Chol, arrested over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of the country&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un, will be released and deported from Malaysia on Friday due to lack of evidence, Malaysian Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be released and will be deported as he does not have any valid documents,&#8221; Apandi told the New Straits Times.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 13, Kim Jong Nam was killed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. According to reports, a highly toxic gas was smeared on his face as he was about to board a flight to Macau. Kim is believed to have been killed by a VX nerve agent classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Following the murder, Malaysian police detained a number of people, including Ri, while several other suspects had left the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) said that four of the eight suspects involved in the murder worked for North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security and Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014North Korean national Ri Jong Chol, arrested over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of the country&#8217;s leader Kim &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[15247,16062],"class_list":["post-92152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-kim-jong-nam","tag-ri-jong-chol","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}