Assassins

Do you think you'd be okay speaking on camera?

So we can show you as Siti's friend?

But I want to protect my identity. What if people say,

"That girl is the friend of a murderer"?

We were friends. We liked to hang out.

We liked talking, eating, shopping.

Hi.

Siti's really pretty and down to earth.

Somebody is having a baby...

She was always making jokes.

She's friendly and "happy go lucky."

Thank you. Buh-bye.

This is her last Facebook post.

The night before the murder,

Siti celebrated her birthday at Hard Rock Cafe.

Siti!

Here we go!

One, two, three!

She seemed really happy.

We couldn't believe that she murdered someone the next morning.

We are back with an apparent assassination,

brazenly carried out at an international airport.

Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un,

was murdered in Malaysia...

...the sudden and mysterious death of the half-brother

of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Kim Jong-nam was at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport

when he was reportedly poisoned.

...after he was sprayed in the face with a chemical.

...by two female assassins...

A cold-blooded execution, straight from a spy movie,

local media reports say.

Two femme fatale killers

poisoning a mysterious political figure with a chemical weapon.

Malaysian police said the poison used

was the deadly VX nerve agent.

...one of the fastest-acting fatal poisons that exists, according to scientists.

The U.S. and South Korea believe the murder

was an assassination organized by North Korean agents.

But North Korea denies involvement in the crime.

Tonight, little is known about the two women

who have just been arrested in connection with the murder.

Were the women trained assassins

or innocent pawns of North Korean agents?

ASSASSINS

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA FEBRUAR 2017

HADI AZMI JOURNALIST, BENAR NEWS

I started covering the Kim Jong-nam murder trial

from day one, when the first news broke.

A reporter's job is to tell the world the truth.

But in Malaysia, the freedom of press is limited.

Most of the big media agencies

are owned by the government.

So, it's hard to get the truth out.

But, I am lucky that my media organization is not a local one.

So we are quite open with what we can publish.

It's one of those big stories that is a dream for a reporter to report on.

So around 9 AM, Kim Jong-nam walked

through this entrance to the terminal.

He was just alone. No one was with him.

And right behind this column,

there was one woman waiting for him.

This is Siti Aisyah,

the woman in a light gray shirt.

And from that way,

Doan Thi Huong was coming towards him.

She was wearing a white T-shirt that says "LOL."

So he was supposed to print out his boarding pass,

but before he was able to do that,

Kim Jong-nam was jumped by Siti Aisyah and Doan.

And they allegedly smeared VX chemical onto his face.

The women ran away.

And then from the CCTV footage you can clearly see that Kim Jong-nam was

making this gesture to police officers

that these two women came up to smear his face with a chemical.

And from there the police officers escorted Kim Jong-nam towards the clinic.

You can see that he is starting to limp,

like he has already been affected by something.

He was given medical attention,

but within an hour, he was dead.

Meanwhile, the two women,

they both went down to level 2 to the toilet

to wash their hands.

It seems to suggest that

they knew that the chemical on their hands

is something dangerous.

They have a certain

cool, calculative

confidence in their walk.

Here is what I find interesting, because

she's walking and then she...

she looked into the CCTV camera.

As if challenging, you know?

Yeah, I just did that. So what?

Well, one thing is clear.

This is one of the most bizarre murder plots in decades.

It really is incredible, when you look at this woman,

who is acting in broad daylight.

Who are these women,

and do they work for the North Korean regime?

Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong

were charged with exposing the deadly nerve agent VX

to Kim Jong-nam's face.

Doan Thi Huong and Siti Aisyah were arrested

and now face the death penalty by hanging.

I didn't know at first.

I was at prayer.

Praying.

Reciting Qur'an at a funeral. A friend had died.

ASRIA NUR ASAN SITI'S VATER

And then I found out.

I felt,

how could I, as a parent...

it felt like...

how could something like this happen?

What could have brought her to do such a thing?

I think she didn't know what she was doing.

If I asked her to do something,

she would do it.

That's the kind of person she is.

I've never actually seen this photo.

Wow.

My obsession with North Korea goes back a long way.

I started covering North Korea in 2004.

And I have not stopped yet.

So, when the assassination happened,

I came out of a yoga class, it was like nine o'clock at night,

and I looked at my phone

and saw it had blown up.

Kim Jong-nam has been assassinated.

Kim Jong-nam, at one point, was the favorite son of Kim Jong-il,

the former leader of North Korea.

He has been known as a potential rival for Kim Jong-un.

And it's raising suspicions that Kim Jong-un

may have once again marked one of his own relatives for death.

It was so surprising to me, you know, the footage,

to see Kim Jong-nam standing in this airport.

I mean, it's so amazing to think, you know,

I was trying to find Kim Jong-nam for several years before he was killed,

and just to see him walking around, no hat, no sunglasses.

It's really like, wow, I wish I had have been able to talk to him.

And there's this myth that the Kim family

was descended from Mount Paektu,

which is this mountain at the top of North Korea

on the border with China,

that is the mythical home of all Korean people.

And so the Kim regime has used this to say,

"We were divinely ordained to lead North Korea,"

and it's called the Paektu bloodline.

So Kim Il-sung passed down the leadership of North Korea

to his son, Kim Jong-il,

using this whole Paektu bloodline mythology

as the basis for his legitimacy.

So when it came time for Kim Jong-il

to anoint one of his sons,

it should have gone to Kim Jong-nam.

Are you Kim Jong-nam?

- Are you Kim Jong-nam? - No.

I cannot tell you.

It's my privacy, man.

Kim Jong-nam was the first-born son of Kim Jong-il.

And, in fact, Kim Jong-nam's mother

was a famous actress who Kim Jong-il spotted

and took her basically as his wife.

But Kim Jong-il really doted on Kim Jong-nam.

He was absolutely besotted with this boy

and really seemed to relish his time as a father at the beginning.

Kim Jong-nam and Kim Jong-un grew up entirely separate.

They had different mothers.

And there's a 10-year age difference.

Kim Jong-un's mother was another woman, she was a famous dancer,

and was very ambitious and very present.

She was advocating and agitating

for her son, for him to be the leader of North Korea,

and she had a very powerful influence in the system there.

So, at the beginning of the 2000s,

Kim Jong-nam was caught in this very embarrassing situation.

He had taken his young family to Tokyo

and was busted by the Japanese police.

He'd gone in under a fake Dominican Republic passport,

using a Chinese name, Pang Xiong, which means "fat bear."

And he said, you know, he just wanted to take his kid to Disneyland.

It was extremely embarrassing for the regime.

America is North Korea's number-one enemy

and Disneyland, you know, can you get more American than Disneyland?

But, in fact, there were rumors

that Kim Jong-un's mother actually tipped off the Japanese police

to the arrival of Kim Jong-nam in Japan

because she wanted to make sure

that he could not become the next leader of North Korea.

So, Kim Jong-nam struck a deal with his father

to be allowed to leave North Korea.

He moved to Macau, a Chinese territory,

where he was able to live a kind of normal life.

But he was ruled out of the succession line.

And throughout history, we've seen

brothers being sidelined

in this way.

From Cain and Abel to Romulus and Remus at the foundation of Rome.

Brothers are so threatening