Police investigating nerve agent attack against Russian ex-spy and his daughter
Three people are now critically ill in hospital after apparently coming into contact with a nerve agent.
Three people are now critically ill in hospital after apparently coming into contact with a nerve agent.
Chemical weapons are now suspected of playing a part in the collapse of a Russian double agent and his daughter.
The reported decontamination procedure points away from a radioactive substance, the ex-Army chemical weapons chief said.
The US State Department said the killing showed ‘reckless’ Pyongyang must not be allowed to develop weapons of mass destruction.
The finding comes just over a year after the North Korean leader’s brother Kim Jong Nam died at an international airport in Malaysia in an attack authorities said used VX nerve agent.
Myanmar is also alleged to have received a range of conventional weapons from North Korea.
The daughter of US president Donald Trump is leading the American delegation at this weekend’s closing ceremony for the Winter Olympics.
Hopes are high in South Korea that she may deliver a message from President Trump on North Korea.
At the Old Bailey, Aweys Shikhey, 38, denies preparing terrorist acts on or before May 23 last year.
The boy previously admitted booking a flight aiming to fight for a banned organisation in Syria.
Rakhmat Akilov is charged with terror-related murder and attempted murder.
It is still unclear whether the lunch could be used to set up bigger meetings between the Koreas.
Kim Jong Un’s sister shook hands with the South Korean president during a show of reconciliation that seemed unlikely in recent weeks.
The rival Koreas have struck a note of reconciliation during the Games which seemed unlikely a matter of weeks ago.
The US vice president has warned over ‘propaganda’ from Pyongyang amid an apparent thaw in relations between the two Koreas.