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Vietnamese woman in Kim Jong Nam murder case freed

Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong after being sentenced in Kuala Lumpur. She is due to be freed May 3, 2019. [AFP]

A Vietnamese woman who stood trial for the assassination of the North Korean leader's half-brother was freed from prison Friday, bringing down the final legal curtain on a dramatic and often bizarre two-year murder mystery.

Kim Jong Nam, the estranged relative of Kim Jong Un and once seen as heir apparent to the North's leadership, died in agony after having his face smeared with a banned nerve agent as he waited at Kuala Lumpur airport in February, 2017.

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