A Vietnamese woman accused of colluding with four missing North Korean suspects to assassinate the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for fatally smearing a deadly nerve agent on his face at a Malaysian airport.
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Doan Thi Huong, who was the only suspect in custody for the killing of Kim Jong-Nam, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of causing hurt by a dangerous weapon after her murder charge was downgraded by prosecutors on Monday.
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The US said Pyongyang had used the chemical warfare agent VX in the public assassination, and both women had claimed they were duped by North Korean agents into thinking they were playing a harmless prank for a hidden-camera TV show.
Mr. Kim’s estranged half-brother died in February 2017 after Huong and Indonesian woman Siti Aisyah covered his face with a nerve agent inside a crowded airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur.
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