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Prosecutors say suspects must have been trained to kill Kim Jong…

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Two women accused of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader must have been trained to carry out “an assassination” using deadly VX nerve agent, Malaysian prosecutors said, wrapping up their case on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who is on trial for the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader, is escorted as she arrives at the Shah Alam High Court on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo

Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese, were charged with having common intent with four North Korean fugitives to kill Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in February 2017.

Kim’s face was smeared with VX, a banned nerve agent developed as a chemical weapon.

“You have to be trained for it… there can be no room for error,” prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin said, likening the “assassination” to something seen “in a James Bond movie”.

The women, both in their 20s, are the only suspects in custody and face the death penalty if convicted. They pleaded not guilty, saying they believed they were acting in a prank reality show and did not know they were handling anything lethal.

Wan Shaharuddin said assassins would have to know the best route for VX to enter the victim’s body, and know that they have to wash the VX off themselves within 15 minutes to avoid being contaminated. 

FILE PHOTO: Indonesian Siti Aisyah who is on trial for the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader, is escorted as she leaves at the Department of Chemistry in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo

Airport security footage screened in court showed both women heading to a washroom shortly after the assault on Kim.    

“If it was a prank, why did you smear not only on his face or on his eyelids, but also in the eye itself?” Wan Shaharuddin said, adding that there was “an element of aggressiveness” involved.   

The prosecution made their closing arguments based on 34 witness testimonies. Trial judge Azmi Ariffin set Aug 16 to rule on whether to acquit the women or call for them to enter their defense.

Defense lawyers say the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting the women were mere pawns.

Pyongyang has denied accusations by South Korean and U.S. officials that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s regime was behind the killing.

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Kim had criticized his family’s dynastic rule of North Korea and his half-brother had issued a standing order for his execution, some South Korean lawmakers have said.

FILE PHOTO: Kim Jong Nam arrives at Beijing airport in Beijing, China, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 11, 2007. Picture taken February 11, 2007. Kyodo/via REUTERS/File Photo

Lawyers for both women said prosecutors had erred in charging the women with four men seen fleeing Malaysia on the day of the killing, given the presence of several other North Korean suspects named during the trial.

“How can there be a common intention between the accused and the four, when many others have escaped? There are other suspects who are still at large,” Gooi Soon Seng, Siti Aisyah’s lawyer, said.

He described the prosecution’s evidence against his client as “flimsy and circumstantial” as it relied only on the security footage and traces of VX by-products found on the gray sleeveless shirt she was seen wearing. 

There was no clear footage showing Siti Aisyah smearing Kim’s face. The recordings show only a blurry image of someone the prosecution identified as Siti Aisyah hurrying away from the scene.

Siti Aisyah’s DNA was not found on the shirt recovered by police, while the VX by-products detected were commonly found in other substances apart from the poison, Gooi said.

Huong’s lawyer Naran Singh said while his client was seen walking quickly to the bathroom after the killing, she did not seem to know that her hands were covered in poison.

“If someone knew the substance on their hands could kill and that they need to wash it quickly, they would run for their life, not walk.”

Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore

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Mallra (Sw.) v. to engage, within a mall/shopping center of a private alt. private semi-public nature, in free/creative/artistic activities that are not linked through any transaction with the mall’s economic flow or normal events.

Mallrats 2012–2017 is an artistic project by Kristoffer Svenberg, which began with the platform Museum Museum.

A mallrat is American slang for a member of a group of mainly youths who hang around in malls without buying anything. It is usually described as an undesirable trash culture. The Mallrats project aims to focus on, and encourage young people to consciously challenge this space and architecture through artistic practices.

Nowadays, public spaces are frequently discussed in architecture, urban planning and art. But most of our time is spent in our private spaces. Mallrats is a project built on collective creativity.

It is structured through pedagogics, exercises and coaching. In the next step, the participants themselves formulate and implement performance art in private and semi-public commercial spaces. This takes place without special permission, and is, in practice, a critical exploration of spatial politics.

Kristoffer Svenberg, who outlined the concept for this project, claims that the shopping mall spaces are exceedingly image oriented. This kind of structure and architecture would not exist had it not been for photography. The spaces are not built to make us feel comfortable physically there. As consumers, we are envisioned as viewers who look at things. We are intended to see the advertisements on the premises and the shelves with products of we could potentially buy. Consuming defines our scope of action. To stage interventions and art performances in these spaces is a defiant practice.

In 2013, Kristoffer Svenberg and a group of students from Viktor Rydbergs gymnasium (an upper secondary college) were invited to run the Mallrats project within the Museum Museum framework at Moderna Museet. It was presented as a live three-day exhibition with continuous performances and interventions. Since then, Kristoffer Svenberg has repeated the project in other parts of Sweden, at other institutions, and together with groups of various ages.

Museum Museum is a development project for art and learning, and a platform for creativity. In Museum Museum, upper-secondary students mix with recent school-leavers in a quest for independence and professional identity. The encounter with art can have a decisive impact in many ways.

Mallrats – Skapare av projektet/Creators of the project:

Mallrats – Ritualer 2017: Kungsbacka Konsthall, Aranäsgymnasiet  Ronja Alfredsson, Jenny Andersson, Annie Brandt, Linnea Hjalmarsson, Alicia Johanesson, Linnéa Karlsson, Carl Olsson, Elin Sickeldal, Sofia Zackrisson, Ann Kristin Budung, Simon Fagéus, Charlotta Hanno

Mallra Linjen – Mallrats Göteborg 2015: Göteborgs Konsthall, Angeredsgymnasiet, Livslust Norra Hisingen, Schillerska Gymnasiet, Göteborgs Kulturförvaltning

Ridwaan Ahmed, Zaynab Ahmed, Adem Aliu, Abdirisac Ali, Ahmed Abdulahi, Kaashi Abdulkadir, Daniela Llonka Belodedici, Petar Cvetkovski, Muad Elmi, Karaivanov Georgiev, Abdifatah Hassan, Dayah Hassan, Ramla Ibrahim, Angel Karaivanov, Heidi Marquardt, Ilhan Mahmed, Huda Al Najjar, Najmo Mahamud, Halane Farhiya Mohamed, Balqisa Muktar Mohammed, Habiba Moradi, Elmi Muad, Alterkawi Oday, Yusuf Fadumo Osman, Jan Bahlenberg, Gunn Godén, Ockie Johansson, Eva Robertsson, Britt Marie Svärd, Gun Mattsson, Sabina Andersson, Ada Andrén, Agnes Andréasson, Sara Altvall, Karolina Alvekrans, Ebba Blom, Lisa Ellinor Sundin Bröms, Maja Del, Johanna Engström, Lena Haraldsson, Lii Johansson, Maximum Karlsson, Thelma Laimaa Lindblom, Sonja Loguin, Manet Rueangchaiyot, Alice Indi Ryne, Mimmi Louise Sjölund, Nadia Äärlaht, Linn Pettersson, Ann-Sofi Roxhage, Mija Renström, Alexandra Nyman, Markus Görsch

Mallrats – Vision & Verklighet 2014: Designgymnasiet Nacka, Stockholms Läns Museum

Alexandra Strand, Caroline Waldenström, Elin Pella Månsson, Ellinor Wah, Emelie Ida Sjödén, Hanna Lindström, Jennifer Benholm, Jonas Gustavsson, Jordache Naran, Josefin Löfström, Kelly Tångring, Khaled Gnina, Linn Eliasson, Linus Leonardsson, Lumin Desirée Baguion, Maja Johansson, Olivia Arwin, Saga Apelgren, Sara Sayed

Mallrats Stockholm – Offentliga uttryck i privata rum 2012-2013: Moderna Museet, Index, Viktor Rydbergs Gymnasium  Alina Jansson Heikkinen, Alva Schiöler, Cornelia Hinds, Emeli Meilink, Jorun Joiner, Josefine Gyllensvärd, Karin Jensen, Laura Edman, Leon Kuhn, Louise Dyhlén, Louise Silfversparre, Lovisa Nordlöf, Matilda Bakke, Oliver Norberg, Paulina Cederskär, Rebecca Reimers Carlheim-Gyllenskiöld, Sara Dehlin, Sofia Kumlin, Sophia Desport, Teresa Ranta, William Björklund, Åsa Hodell

Konstnärlig ledare/Artistic director: Kristoffer Svenberg

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Oct 19 - Nov 5, 2017 SPACE WARMING | CRCP Students & Friends Introductory Exhibit  Third Floor Atrium next to Animation, Emily Carr University Opening @ 6:30PM-9PM Performances & Readings @ 8PM Artists Harry Armstrong, Natalie Crema, Marcus Dénommé,  Robin Lough, Kat Wadel, Lacie Burning, Simon Bermeo, Dana Qaddah, Laura Levesque, Laurance Playford-Beaudet, Aubin Kwon, Theo Terry, Melina Querel, Krpsy, Julia Pepler, Charlotte Yao, Ester Tòthovà, Chelsea MacKay, Mona Fani, Amelia Earhart, Chris Strickler, Julia Song, Andrew Mckay, Dennis Valouiski, Terence Martin, Maleeha Paracha, Brigitte Patenaude, Joy Kim, Chhaya Naran, Danielle Wensley, Ali Bosley, Wendy Oaksman, Jourdan Tymkow, Virgile Dean, Chelsea Yuill, Els Patterson, Aldo Scarpitta, Darius Fultz-Zentner, Drake Pickel, Silas Egan  Curated by Chelsea Yuill Jourdan Tymkow Wendy Oaksman

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