Woman accused of killing Kim Jong Un’s brother to be freed

A Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s dictator will be freed from a Malaysian prison on May 3, according to her lawyer.

Doan Thi Huong, 30, was charged along with an Indonesian woman of poisoning Kim Jong Nam by smearing his face with a deadly chemical at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017.

Malaysian prosecutors dropped a murder charge against Huong earlier this month after she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of causing harm.

She was sentenced to more than three years in jail, but the term was later reduced as Malaysian law allows for prison sentences to be reduced by one-third.

Her alleged accomplice, Siti Aisyah, was freed in March after prosecutors also dropped the murder charge against her.

The women claimed they thought they were part of a reality prank show and did not know they were poisoning Kim.

Malaysia has come under criticism for charging the two women with murder — which carries a mandatory death penalty in the country — when the key perpetrators were still being sought.

South Korean and U.S. officials believe the North Korean regime ordered the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, who criticized his family’s dynastic rule under leader Kim Jong Un.

Pyongyang has denied the allegation.

Defense lawyers have maintained the women were pawns in an assassination orchestrated by North Korean agents.

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