Kim Jong Nam Met U.S. National In Malaysian Before Murder

A police official told a court hearing on Monday, Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean’s leader, met a United States national at a Malaysian island hotel days before his sensational killing last February . Kim arrived in Malaysia on Feb. 6 before traveling two days later to Langkawi Island, a tourist spot off Malaysia’s west coast, the lead police investigator in the case told the court. The report said Kim was believed to have passed a large amount of data to the agent, citing a Malaysian forensics analysis of a laptop found in Kim’s backpack after his death. Two women, have been charged with four North Korean fugitives for the murder. Prosecutors say the women smeared his face with VX, a lethal chemical poison at Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13.