Kim assassination suspect to be freed as murder charge dropped

Doan Thi Huong (C) and her Indonesian co-accused always maintained they were innocent pawns in a plan hatched by North Korea.

A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader's half-brother is to walk free after Malaysia dropped murder charges against her Monday, weeks after her Indonesian co-accused was also released.

The 2017 killing of Kim Jong Nam with a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur's international airport shocked the world, but Doan Thi Huong's guilty plea to the lesser charge of "causing injury" makes her the only person convicted in the case.