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A North Korean chemist deported from Malaysia accused police of threatening to harm his family unless he confessed to the killing of the half brother of North Korea's leader, calling it a plot to tarnish his country's honor.
The heavy-set man got out of a Macau taxi one night last September, heading to the lobby bar at one of the city's most expensive hotels. The bar at the Wynn Macau is a quiet place, where the women are often in evening dresses and the gamblers can relax with $300 Cuban cigars. He was dressed casually, nondescript really. There were no bodyguards, no flashy women. It wasn't what you'd expect for a man once tipped to be the next dictator of North Korea.
“We respect the legal process that is currently underway in Malaysia and we’ll continue to wait until they grant us consular access [to Siti Aisyah]. That will be our focus,” said Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, the Foreign Ministry’s director for the protection of Indonesian nationals and entities abroad.
The National Police have agreed to let the Foreign Ministry handle the case of Siti Aisyah, the Indonesian citizen who has been named a suspect by the Malaysian police in the assassination of a man believed to be Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
