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PETALING JAYA: Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong probably had no idea that their lives would completely change when they smeared liquid on Kim Jong-nam’s face in February 2017.
The liquid, the deadly nerve agent VX, eventually killed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother.
The names of Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan from Vietnam were captured in the headlines as videos of the incident in the departure lounge of KL 2 International Airport (KLIA 2) were broadcast around the world.
Now, some four years after the incident, a documentary about the two women called “Assassins”It will be available on demand on various digital platforms starting Friday (January 29).
“Assassins travels from the shrines of Pyongyang to the rice fields of Indonesia and Vietnam to the courtrooms of Kuala Lumpur to tell an extraordinary story of manipulation and subterfuge in the age of social media.
“A masterful investigation that offers an unprecedented look at the true story of the murder of Kim Jong-nam, Assassins it is the tremendously unlikely story of a calculating dictator, a nefarious plot, a very public assassination and two women fighting for their lives ”, reads the synopsis of the documentary.
In 2018, both women were indicted along with four other people for the murder of Jong-nam.
However, in April 2019, the Superior Court sentenced Doan to three years and four months in jail after he pleaded guilty to a new charge under Section 324 of the Penal Code for willfully causing harm with weapons or dangerous means. while the charges against Siti Aisyah had been met. it was removed in March 2019.
The women had always insisted that North Korean agents tricked them into carrying out the attack and told them it was a joke for a reality show.
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