The second woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been set free, bringing one of the world's highest-profile murder mysteries to an anticlimactic end after two years of twists and turns
The second woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been set free, bringing one of the world's highest-profile murder mysteries to an anticlimactic end after two years of twists and turns.
Doan Thi Huong was released from jail Friday morning, her lawyer said. Huong left for the immigration department, a prison spokesman said, where she is expected to be processed before returning home to Vietnam in the coming hours.Huong, Indonesian national Siti Aisyah and four North Korean men were accused of smearing VX nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong Nam as he entered an airport on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in February 2017, killing him in minutes.
Appeal denied for second Kim Jong Nam murder suspect 03:21A sudden changeThe four North Koreans charged were believed to have left Malaysia shortly after the killing and remain at large. Aisyah and Huong were arrested days later. During the initial investigation and through most of the trial, police and prosecutors were adamant that both women knew what they were doing -- making the decision to abandon efforts to secure murder convictions all the more surprising.
2017: Theories behind Kim Jong Nam's murder 01:43Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert and professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, said the case will likely fade into memory as just another example of North Korea's covert operations and killings abroad.
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