KUALA LUMPUR: The body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated brother of North Korea’s leader, will not be released despite a request from Pyongyang until his family have provided DNA samples, Malaysia said Friday.

Detectives in Kuala Lumpur are trying to get to the bottom of the cloak-and-dagger murder that South Korea says was carried out by poison-wielding female agents working for their secretive northern neighbor.

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