SEOUL: North Korea has up to 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, South Korean experts said on Friday, including the toxin used to assassinate its leader's half-brother.

Traces of VX—a nerve agent listed as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations—were detected on swabs from the face and eyes of Kim Jong-Nam, who was poisoned at a Kuala Lumpur airport last week, Malaysian police said on Friday.

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