Considering the manner in which he died:

It was obviously an assassination, so I wonder what was the mystery liquid?

Could even be nicotine...

Doesn't matter though, sadly, he's probably better of dead as the neglected brother of a wannabe Chairman May, Butcher Putin or egeregious self-obsessed pay-to-play Drumpf.

I did not know that pure nicotine could kill that fast - any of the substances would irritate the eyes, but fumes from an acid would be deadly, unless pure nicotine maybe caused some sort of heart arrhythmia - but that is usually attributed either to cyanide or maybe arsenic.

Just speculation -- my piont was more that even a DMHO (google it, it's mildly amusing) soaked rag can kill.
Who knows and who cares how a scumbag's relation died?

I only wonder because it is just out of some spy thriller - so it is interesting.

And it didn't kill the woman who was holding it?

These days, it just doesn't pay to be a Korean in power. The way these clowns are going, they're going to manage to reignite a fifty-year old war, and when they do so, they're going to lose everything of what little they now have. Their entire regime is still based on an "interrupted war" that no one really cares about anymore. So, who the hell gave them missiles?

Malaysia is no joke. That Muslim country canes folks and executes drug smugglers.

Doesn't matter if it is a Muslim majority country - you can get killed for smuggling drugs too if caught in the PRC.

So? They did not kill him in the PRC, no?

What is your point? That Malaysia is a joke to commit murder in? That I was being derogatory adding the adjective "Muslim". Which Malaysia is by the way.
In my statement? Inquiring minds would like to know.

We kill murderers in Texas also. We are no joke either. But we don't cane people. But the red necks like dragging colored folks with a chain behind
their pick up trucks from time to time.

Edit: I find it pretty damn petty ass that one brother kills another brother over nothing. Pretty sad really.
I shoot mad dogs in my neighborhood.

Well the PRC is a close ally to the DPRK - and nobody knows what dealings he had there, everyone knows of his other exploits outside of the DPRK traveling around with fake documentation, and getting kicked out of countries.

As far as caning is concerned - that is an asian thing when it comes to non-lethal punishment - hell you can get caned in Singapore too - remember the case of the dumb westerner that went up and down Singapore vandalising property? What happened to him?

I know we kill murderers here, we have the highest executions in the entire US still I think. What a record to be proud of.

One retrospective newspaper article on Kim Jong-un said that when he had his uncle shot, one of the charges was "dreaming different dreams".

I almost feel sorry for the Chinese: if they help the North Koreans, they get blamed, but if they cut off supplies it would probably end with millions of starving refugees pouring over the border.

I was mildly amused when Kim Jong Il tried to use a typ-o-dong but couldn't get it up. Then Kim Jong Il was so darn Kim Jong Il that he Kim Jong Died meaning that Kim Jong Un Ruled NK.
Besides that they are (whole clan included), to quote Roger Waters "Irellevant to me."*.

*no need to look it up if you're not interested but it doesn't mean I don't care for the plight of those they subjugate.

The problem is all these purges is making things even that much more uncertain in the DPRK, and at some point something will have to give. If these purges continue, either Kim Jong Un's system will implode in on itself, or there could be a military coup d'etat. The purges are done to try to keep everyone in line, however this obviously can easily backfire.

I thought the problem was that some countries actually recognise that NK has a government?
I'm not suiggesting that the mid-term outcome of the humans living there (as opposed to the sub-human dictators) would be improved in the mid-term but I fail to see how else anybody with the means (I looked it up, my home town makes enough to buy NK) can help the actual people when some scum support the regime with threats of force.
Sadly, the "Kim Jong" regimen is supported by some pathitic sub-human scum who decided that some ingorant little pile of excrement family should be able to rule it.