{"id":295374,"date":"2017-02-18T05:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295374"},"modified":"2017-02-18T05:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T05:48:48","slug":"kim-jong-nam-death-suspect-thought-she-was-in-tv-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295374","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-nam death suspect &#8216;thought she was in TV prank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An Indonesian woman held over the killing of Kim Jong-un&#8217;s half-brother thought she was taking part in a TV prank, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-nam is thought to have been poisoned as he waited to board a flight in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Two women and a man were arrested over the death.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s national police chief said one of the women, named as Siti Aisyah, claimed to have been paid to perform what she thought was a prank.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/D58F\/production\/_94717645_4702f7f6-c7f3-42a6-8887-d4d1a02f364d.jpg\" alt=\"Grainy image shows a woman with brown hair wearing a T-shirt with the letters \" width=\"624\" height=\"624\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Police believe a poisonous substance was sprayed into Kim Jong-nam&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Tito Karnavian, Indonesia&#8217;s most senior policeman, said the two women had already performed the prank on other men. It involved convincing the men to close their eyes before spraying them with water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such an action was done three or four times and they were given a few dollars for it, and with the last target, Kim Jong-nam, allegedly there were dangerous materials in the sprayer,&#8221; Mr Karnavian told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A grainy image broadcast in South Korea and Malaysia showed a woman running in the airport, wearing a white T-shirt with the letters &#8220;LOL&#8221; written on the front.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea meanwhile has demanded that Malaysia immediately release the body of Kim Jong-nam.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean ambassador to Malaysia said his country had not consented to the post-mortem carried out on the dead man&#8217;s body and would categorically reject its findings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly urge and demand the Malaysian side not to be entangled with the political plot by the forces hostile to the DPRK [the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea] who want to damage the image of our republic &#8211; and to release the body immediately without any condition,&#8221; Ambassador Kang Chol said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indonesian woman held over the killing of Kim Jong-un&#8217;s half-brother thought she was taking part in a TV prank, police say. Kim Jong-nam is thought to have been poisoned as he waited to board a flight in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Two women and a man were arrested over the death. Indonesia&#8217;s national police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}