Malaysian police say Kim Jong-un’s brother was poisoned with a banned chemical weapon

Malaysian police say Kim Jong-un’s brother was poisoned with a banned chemical weapon

Malaysian authorities are slowly getting to the bottom of the death of Kim Jong-nam. According to Reuters, police state that the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was poisoned with a substance known as VX nerve agent, considered to be (pdf, p.15) a “weapon of mass destruction” by the Organisation for the Prohibition of…