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NORTH KOREA AND Malaysia have exchanged barbs over the investigation into the killing of leader Kim Jong-Un’s brother, as footage emerged of the moment he was fatally attacked in Kuala Lumpur airport.
Malaysia’s probe has put five North Koreans in the frame for the airport assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, but Pyongyang said it had no faith in the investigation and claimed Kuala Lumpur was in cahoots with “hostile forces”.
The diplomatic confrontation gathered pace today when Malaysia recalled its envoy to North Korea and summoned Pyongyang’s ambassador Kang Chol for a dressing down.
But an unbowed Kang hit back.
“It has been seven days since the incident, but there is no clear evidence on the cause of death and at the moment we cannot trust the investigation by the Malaysian police”, he told reporters in the Malaysian capital.
Pyongyang has also criticised Malaysia for carrying out a post-mortem examination without North Korean permission – a complaint Kuala Lumpur said was groundless.
“The ministry emphasised that as the death occurred on Malaysian soil under mysterious circumstances, it is the responsibility of the Malaysian government to conduct an investigation to identify the cause of death,” the foreign ministry said.
The Malaysian government takes very seriously any unfounded attempt to tarnish its reputation. The Malaysian Government views the criticism… as baseless.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak backed those running the probe, saying it would be “very professional”.
“I have absolute confidence that they are very objective in whatever they do,” he said in his first comments since news of the killing broke.
We have no reason why we want to do something that would paint the North Koreans in a bad light. But we would be objective and we expect them to understand that we apply the rule of law in Malaysia.
Slumped
CCTV footage aired on Japanese television gave the first public glimpse of the apparent moment Jong-Nam was attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
The dramatic film shows two women approaching a man – identified as Jong-Nam – with one of them grabbing him from behind and appearing to push a cloth in his face.
The man is then seen talking to airport staff and apparently explaining to them what had happened, gesturing to his head.
The staff then lead him to the airport clinic.
Photographs showing a man slumped in a chair at the clinic, consistent with the CCTV images of the attack, were published in the Malaysian press over the weekend.
Seoul has pointed the finger of blame at Pyongyang for the attack last Monday, citing a “standing order” from the leader to kill his elder sibling and a failed assassination bid in 2012 after he criticised the regime.
The claim was bolstered over the weekend, with Malaysian police saying they believed five North Koreans were involved in the killing.
One of them was already in custody, and four are believed to have fled the country on the day of the murder.
Detectives are also holding an Indonesian woman and her Malaysian boyfriend, as well as a Vietnamese woman.
Three other North Koreans were wanted for questioning, police said.
Murder
At least three of the wanted North Koreans took a flight from Jakarta to Dubai on the evening of the murder, an Indonesian immigration official said.
They had travelled from Malaysia to Jakarta and after Dubai returned to Pyongyang via Russia, Malaysian media quoted official sources as saying.
South Korea’s Unification Minister Hong Yong-Pyo said today it was becoming even more clear that the North Korean government was behind the killing of Kim Jong-Nam.
“The Malaysian government is prudently investigating the case and we think it’s significant that it officially announced North Korean suspects were involved,” Hong told reporters.
Kim Jong-Nam was once thought to be the natural successor to his father, the then-North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
But after Jong-Il’s death in 2011 the succession went instead to his younger son Kim Jong-Un.
Reports of purges and executions have emerged from the current regime as Jong-Un tries to strengthen his grip on power in the face of international pressure over his nuclear and missile programmes.
It’s a misleading headline.
He has been imprisoned not for stealing the Holy Sacrament, not even just for stealing the €7,000 gold-plated monstrance, which contained the Holy Sacrament, but for a string of robberies which included the theft of the monstrance.
Use of “Holy Sacrament” acts as a dog whistle for the anti-Catholic cohort.
@James Odin: Haha, I genuinely laughed out loud at that one.
I’m anti catholic and even agree with you guys
The headline is in accordance with the Journals clickbait rules.
Well Holy God!!!
Jesus’s that’s more than of the pedophiles get
@EvieXVI:
Thanks.
I appreciate the compliment.
Yup, I’m not a Catholic or religious and I think it’s really low to steal from a church.
@Ciarán Masterson:
What about the Bankers
With that number of previous convictions he shouldn’t have seen the light of day to commit those further crimes.
@Barry Davidson: He’s bread and butter to the system of law.
they should show a photo of him so the public will know who he is when released again in a few months.
googled out of curiousity… turns out this scobie commented in the journal (barely, probably on heroin, while babysitting) on an article about alan ryan getting shot!
He’s 24 how long do you really think they should keep him in jail? Doesn’t it cost close to 50k a year to keep him there? You just got wonder what is the best and most economical way to deal with him. No a bleeding heart liberal just want better use of money and crime prevention
He simply wrote “WEJ” about the murder of Alan Ryan. What could that mean? He’s from that area. Does he know something?
Hes probably irredeemable….the sad and frustrating fact is that the state leaves at risk children with their dysfunctional and abusive parents despite the dogs in their neighbourhoods knowing they will/are being traumatised/abused/criminalised beyond saving.
@Kal Ipers: Close with your 50k cost, it was 92k in 2008. Down to 68k now.
As per the Irish Prison Service report for 2015 – 17,206 commitals per year,10,229 commitals for less than 3 month sentence, Avg daily number of prisoners in custody 3722, cost per prison place €68,628, IPS Budget €332,182,000, with 3308 staff.
Quality headline writing from the Journal, straight out of the Sun handbook. A bit more rhyming and punning would help.
You just couldn’t make it up.
Someone did
I know Basil Grimes what a fůkin name
Why suspend the last 18 months? He’s had 88 disciplinary issues since he was in prison. I thought you’re supposed to be punished for breaking prison rules, not rewarded.
@dee jayy: Reason for suspension is in similar cases with even more previous convictions the appeal court suspended part of a sentence
Judges don’t have to but normally take direction from what appeal courts have ruled in previous similar cases
Shame of this writer.
Deliberate and intentional skewing of the article into the headline only designed to gather the anti-Catholic clicks.
These “writers” don’t even hide their bias and incitement to hatred.
@Dan Keane: correct Dan – their ‘journalists’ probably got a great kick out of that headline. Incredibly misleading. low and mean journalism. Their hostility toward anything Catholic or Christian becomes more obvious by the day.
And, of course, it goes hand in hand with their relentless push for abortion.
Agreed Zoe – just look at some of the comments on here from those who fell victim to the Journal luring them in.
any chance of a 3 strikes rule? hell even a 10 strikes rule? i dont mean life in jail, i mean if they mess up that many times can’t we just shoot them? 71 convictions ffs.
Completely misleading headline. Poor journalism.
71 convictions… Thankfully he is going to prison and should be fully rehabilitated on release…
Stealing the food out of the mouths of cannibals… absolute monster… €7k for a gold monstrance ? How much does that organisation owe again?
@Poole Hyde: Religious congregations owe €245m in State redress
So they’re a quarter of a billion short under just the redress scheme alone yet have have gold bits and bobs just lying around the place ? That’s nice…. Where’s Henry the VIII when you really need him ?
Well they do let the state use their 3,000 schools.
@Poole Hyde: More ranting for an atheist Anti Catholic bigoted mind
Do I have to educate you again. about the actions of your atheist brethren
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kill-1111789
http://www.katyn.org.au/
Last week you hero was Stalin now it is the mass murderer and wife killer Henry. Is it any wonder you adopt a comic opera name to hide your identity.
@Con O Sullivan: What are you gibbering about?!
An atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Gods.
You cannot group people together based on what they do not do.
Otherwise we have the group of people who do not follow Manchester United….look at em all…they’re in cahoots!
Oh goodie Con is back.. At least your church isn’t a Stalinist purge eh Con? I’ll tell you what.. Have your cult pay what they owe for years of child abuse, rape and torture and we’ll call it quits.
@Poole Hyde: Maybe you atheist cult could pay for the years of child abuse , rape and murder. My friends Grandfather was murdered by you atheist cult at Katyn and her grandmother never received any compensation. As a follower of Stalin and now Henry V111 you have not much to talk. I notice of Friday night you ran away from debating these facts with me. I suppose you will take the cowards way out again when the temperature gets to hot for you.
@Fozz: There is a difference between the vast majority of atheists who go about their business like most other people and the Anti Catholic bigoted ones who inhabit these treads.I would call them the atheist brethren of Stalin , Lenin and Co. .Comrade Lenin wrote that “Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism,”
@Con O Sullivan: Nobody ran anywhere Con. And your grandfather was no more killed at Katyn than the man in the moon was so stop making stuff up you absolute psycho. I just couldnt be ass arguing with someone who lies through their teeth,.
@Con O Sullivan: Let me tell you something though Con . I am anti catholic. I am out of that catholic nightmare Besboro House in Cork and Ive seen first hand what you people can do in the name of God.
@Congress Tart: Yes and remember the judge attended the annual Red RC Mass – so it does not take much working out.
@Poole Hyde: This is what what I wrote about Katyn. “My friends Grandfather was murdered by you atheist cult at Katyn and her grandmother never received any compensation”. Where did I write that my Grandfather was murdered by your atheist brethren. Maybe you should take up reading lessons rather that accusing truthful people of telling lies.
@Poole Hyde: Tell me what people can do in the name of God., but I have told you what your Anti Catholic atheist brethren did to people who did not believe in God in Katyn. You have accused me of telling lies but I am better than you and will not stoop so low as to do that to you. Tell me what happened first hand in Bessboro. One thing I will tell you is that you are alive, Daria’s Grandfather is dead. He never had a chance to see his children grow up thanks to your Anti Catholic atheist brethren
@Con O Sullivan: Con, you really are a blithering idiot, aren’t you? You must be since you keep on waffling about atheists and war crimes and, of course, the 90% of women in Sweden who have been raped by —- atheists. ROFL
Theists don’t rape anyone in your little bubble parallel universe, do they?
Anyway, neither atheism nor religion have anything to do with a pathetic loser who long ago went into a downward spiral of drugs, drink and crime, and who is clearly no mastermind, either.
How is that African princess you are always drooling about, by the way? I wish I had your Walter Mitty gift for weaving imaginary worlds for yourself, but I can’t escape from this one – the real one. You ought to try and straighten yourself out a bit and then you might actually find a woman and get laid. It would certainly help you to overcome that obsession with rape you have and overcome your obsession with and fantasies about rape.
@Fintan Oflaois: I am hitting a nerve again. I never wrote that theists never committed rape, They do indeed and many of the rapes committed in Sweden are committed by theists. What I am complaining about is that the Swedish Police and media are covering up those serious offences> Maybe you can throw some light on the matter since you have knowledge of that country.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/…/its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-mi.
It was a monstrance crime
Throw away the key.
…”He stole the monstrance and left fingerprints at the scene which were traced back to him. He was arrested six months later in the city….” SIX MONTHS later… Gardaí…lightning quick as usual!
How much has he cost the taxpayer in free legal aid?
Each conviction should bring 1 lash in public.
That make him a bodysnatcher?
@Spilt Pint: Maybe a resurrection man
I remember this guy as a Child. He was an absolute shoe in for all these convictions, Going on twenty years since I seen him last, Sad to see how a life can turn into that and makes you thankful to come from a good family and lucky, Which is what it all comes down to at the end of the day.
“Sgt. Basil Grimes”. Of Scotland Yard no doubt!
Another one of Dublin’s finest.
Society should hang its head in shame for failing this young man.
His 71 previous convictions, and god knows how many crimes he didn’t get convicted for, were clearly a cry for help.
The system isn’t working and is designed to persecute those who have been denied opportunity all their lives.
May he rot in Hell.
@Sam – that comment is a bit out of keeping with your general line.
@Dan Keane:
Divine justice.
I’m surprised he didn’t get a decade of the rosary as penance!
@Edmond Mc Grath: That’s the standard sentence for rapist priests who say sowwy in the confessional.
Proof the two of you did not read the article.
Now we know what you have to do to be sentenced to serious jail time!
You obviously didn’t read the article.
Clearly why they put up such a headline to grab attention of your kind.
Actually, Phil, I did read the article. In fact, I have read many articles in which people with multiple arrests get a rap on the knuckles. This is the first in which theft of a religious object may have been a factor in the sentence.
Sorry, meant that to Dan.
Chalice in wanderland.
It may have been an inside job though..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fymhs02MSqQ
@€uromancer: The insurance will pay out – so no loss really.
I’m sorry but while we all know stealing is wrong when you compare to the sentencing of the bankers that wrecked the country this 7 year sentence is criminal. When you then take into account the fact that no priest was or ever will be imprisoned for the robbery of young men and women’s lives, bodies and mental health it throws into perfect light the banana republic and kangaroo style justice systems we have created. Disgraceful carry on from the establishment as usual.
Sorry Phil.
You’re not getting away with that BS.
Quite a few priests have been jailed for things they did. Any priest who came before the courts with sufficient evidence, faced the full vigour of the law.
And yes, that includes jail.
It’s a nice sentimental comment you make but it’s factually incorrect.
A simple Google search will confirm.
Fr Tony Walsh there’s a start.
@phil – you clearly read only the headline not the article, just what the anti-Catholic agenda of the Journal want you to do.
So did God not see the man and reprimand him and take the Sun God Monstrance object back?
Not much power ??
3 Hail Mary’s 3 Our Father’s and a Glory Be….then move him to another parish…..it worked with the priests didn’t it?
Do you actually read what you type?
Dirt bird
TheJournal.ie, you mean Sacrifice – not Sacrament – don’t you?
It’s an absolute monstrance!
Is there nothing to be said for another mass?
He could have been done under Dermot Aherne’s blasphemy laws too. Judge could have thrown bell Book and candle at him.
Oh look everyone, justice. The judge must have been drunk or on some sort of drugs. Whoever it was is setting a really bad example to all our other judges.
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