'Have family consent to decide on Kim's body'

A senior Malaysian police official says the family of Kim Jong Nam, who was killed last month, has given consent to Malaysia to decide what to do with his body.

Officials say police confirmed Kim's identity using the DNA of one of his children. Kim was holding a diplomatic passport by the name of Kim Chol when he was attacked February 13 at Kuala Lumpur's airport by two women who smeared the banned VX nerve agent on his face. He died within 20 minutes. Deputy national police Chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim said on Thursday that Kim's family will let the government decide what to do with his body. Noor Rashid said any decision will be subject to negotiations between the two countries amid a diplomatic standoff over the killing.

Malaysian investigators used a DNA sample from a son of Kim Jong-Nam to confirm the identity of the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un, the deputy prime minister said on Thursday. The 45-year-old, who was living in exile in the Chinese territory of Macau, was poisoned with the lethal nerve agent VX in a brazen Cold War-style assassination on February 13 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Seoul has blamed Pyongyang for his death, but the North has rejected those claims and has never confirmed the identity of the victim, who was carrying a passport bearing the name of Kim Chol when he was attacked. Meanwhile, Interpol has issued a "red notice" for four North Koreans wanted in connection with the killing of the half-brother of North Korea's leader. "We have obtained a written red notice from Interpol for the four suspects, and we are hoping to get them through Interpol," Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters on Thursday, adding that he believed the four suspects had fled back to Pyongyang.