US imposes further sanctions on North Korea for VX assassination
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Rebecca Trager2018-03-09T15:02:00
State Department confirms North Korea used lethal nerve agent to kill the half-brother of Kim Jong-un
The US State Department has said that the North Korean government used the lethal nerve agent VX to assassinate the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Malaysia last year and has responded by imposing further sanctions on the country. Jong-un’s estranged half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, died in Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia in February 2017, after an attack with VX.