Find out how exactly North Korea tricked two unsuspecting women into doing their dirty
work!
AirAsia Kiosk On February 13, 2017, an overweight man in
his mid forties was standing at the AirAsia self check-in kiosk in the International Airport
of Malaysia.
The man didn’t seem to notice anything weird.
But all of a sudden, an Indonesian woman in ripped jeans and a sleeveless gray top suddenly
walked up behind him and covered his eyes from behind!
Seconds later, she wiped her hand across his mouth, said “Oh, so sorry,” and quickly
left.
Just before he could actually process what happened, a Vietnamese woman wearing a white
top with the word “LOL” across the chest, came up and smeared his face with an oily
substance!
She also apologized quickly and ran away.
The substance smeared across his face IMMEDIATELY began to take effect.
His muscles began to tense up and lock into full contraction.
He tried to stumble toward the men’s room but he never got there.
He made it as far as the customer service counter, where he muttered, “Please help.
Bad spray face.
Feel very bad.”
In seconds, he collapsed and an ambulance was called to take him to the hospital.
In that ambulance, paramedics couldn’t revive him.
Kim Chol Who exactly was this guy?
And why did two different girls come up and touch him in broad daylight?
His passport said that he was Kim Chol, of North Korea.
The name Kim Chol is like the name John Smith in the US, an extremely common name.
Except, this person WASN’T just a nobody in North Korea.
Kim Chol was, in fact, Kim Jong-nam, the oldest half brother of North Korean dictator, Kim
Jong-un!
Kim Jong-Nam Who exactly is Kim Jong-Nam?
He was the son of Kim Jong-il and the presumed successor to rule over North Korea.
When Kim Jong-nam was a little boy, his dad used to sit him on his office chair and said,
to him, “When you grow up, this is where you'll sit and give orders.”
It could have easily been this man who was at the Malaysian airport that day who would
be tyrannizing 25 million people, instead of Kim-Jong Un.
From roughly 1994 to 2001, Kim Jong-Nam was considered the next in line to his father.
But the problem for him was, he jusn’t wasn’t deemed to be serious enough for anything.
They thought that he was just too goofy.
The last straw for the North Korean regime was, let’s call it, his embarrassing little
Escapade in Tokyo back in 2001.
He was caught by Japanese authorities attempting to visit Disneyland with a false passport!
Kim Jong-nam was eventually exiled from North Korea in 2003.
However the problem for him was, he couldn’t keep his mouth shut.
His little brother had been keeping tabs on him, especially what he was saying.
It was just a matter of time before he would be put down.
Siti Dreams Siti Aisyah was a working girl who was from
Indonesia.
She was living and working in Kuala Lumpur as a masseuse.
And this is THE exact type of girl North Korean operatives were looking for.
On the night of January 5th 2017, she was working her usual hustles when a cab driver
whom she had known motioned her over.
Her cab driver connect who went by the name of “John” told her that someone was looking
to recruit girls to film girls smearing lotion on people’s faces.
Obviously, this is something that’s clearly really weird to you and us!
But of course, we are talking about the strange underworld of Asia here, so it’s a little
strange, but not THAT strange.
The price of 100 US dollars was a lot more than the 15 dollars she would typically take
from a session with a client at her massage job.
This was a no brainer for her.
Her dream was to someday earn enough money to build a house in her village and live there
with her family.
Opportunities like this didn’t come everyday!
The Client Just over six hours later, John picked Siti
up in his cab and took her to a meeting at a local shopping center with a man named “James.”
James was to Siti, a good looking 30 year old Japanese man.
Siti introduced herself as “Nidya,”one of her aliases.
James couldn’t speak her language, so they managed to talk in broken English.
The Prank James explained that he was the producer of
a hidden-camera TV show for YouTube in China and Japan.
AND he was recruiting for a comedy show!
He wanted her to rub a mineral oil type liquid on the faces of unsuspecting people while
he recorded everything with his phone.
In her mind, this was all in good fun and out in the open.
James also insisted that as part of the prank, she apologize to the person who she pulled
the prank on afterwards.
So off they went, to an upscale shopping center, and Siti did exactly what she was told.
She went up to a completely random Vietnamese looking woman and rubbed the oil like substance
on the lady’s face.
And afterwards, she apologized as instructed, and ran away!
And she was paid a hundred bucks!
This was the easiest money she’s ever made!
From there, they went to another upscale shopping center.
And she was told another random person and she was paid again!
James suggested that the next day they record some footage in the airport.
And she happily agreed, because why not?!
This was incredible for her because she was getting paid really good money for almost
no work!
The gig seemed too good to be true.
Siti Beginnings Siti had traveled a long way to work in Kuala
Lumpur.
She was born in 1992 in the conservative heartland of Indonesia, the world's largest Islamic
country.
Siti grew up scouring the nearby forest for firewood, bathing in streams, and catching
crickets for food.
This is a world that most of us have never experienced!
Her education ended after the sixth grade.
Instead, she spent her days helping her dad chop ginger and tumeric.
Then her dad would take the spices they extracted and sell them at the local open markets.
Siti might never have moved if Jakarta, the nearby capital of Indonesia, hadn’t been
exploding into a modern city of 30 million inhabitants.
Many villagers viewed city life as dangerous and filled with life that went against Muslim
beliefs.
But Siti didn’t have the same views.
What she wanted was a glamorous and cosmopolitan life that she saw on TV!
Pranking Tour James soon took Siti on a tour of luxury hotels
and malls in Kuala Lumpur.
Between January 5th and January 9th of 2017, she smeared the oily stuff on the faces of
a lot of different people.
And the best thing?
Each time, she got paid!
On January 21st, James took her to Cambodia for even more recordings.
James even told her that she would soon be doing this gig in America!
Siti started dreaming of being a well paid famous international TV star.
She even began telling her friends that she was going to be famous on TV!
In Cambodia, James handed Siti off to another person.
This time it was a man that called himself “Chang.”
He claimed to be Chinese, but he spoke her native language of Bahasa perfectly.
Chang led her through three different airport pranks.
On February 3rd, 4th, and 7th, Siti smeared faces at the Kuala Lumpur airport.
What’s even better was that she was getting paid even more!
Chang increased her pay to $200 dollars for every person she pranked.
But the long con was almost up.
It was almost time for her to do what she was really supposed to do.
On February 8th, Chang gave her $4,000 dollars to arrange a special trip to Macau.
That’s where Kim Jong-Nam lived, in the special administrative region of China.
BUT, the next day, the plans were canceled.
North Korean Operatives figured out that Kim Jong-nam was actually…...inside Malaysia.
Birthday Wish Siti spent her last night as a free woman
at a Hard Rock Cafe with a bunch of her friends she had made in Kuala Lumpur.
Her friends chipped in for a birthday steak for her that normally would have cost two-thirds
of her usual monthly salary.
After her friends sang “Happy Birthday,” to her, she blew out a lone candle on a cupcake-sized
cake.
Then they clubbed late into the night.
The Final Prank On the morning of February 13 2017, the stage
was set.
Siti was sitting and having a coffee with Chang, overlooking the international airport
terminal in Kuala Lumpur.
He led her to a pillar near the AirAsia self check-in kiosks and explained the plan to
her.
Everything was going to be the same.
But, a second woman would be joining her in the prank this time.
Siti was supposed to leave the scene the minute the second woman smeared her target’s face.
To Siti, this is basically just like any other pranks she’s pulled.
Kim Jong-nam arrived at the terminal.
Chang pointed him out to Siti.
He then asked her to turn her head away and hold out her hand.
He pulled a white plastic bag from his backpack and covered her palm with a very oily substance.
Except something was different this time.
This time, the oil substance smelled completely different.
In fact, the fact that it even HAD a smell was different because the other times it was
odorless.
Chang also reminded her to make it look good and to remember to say, “I’m sorry”.
As Jong-nam approached, Chang ducked away, and Siti got to her target.
After rubbing Jong-nam's face, she fled to the bathrooms where she immediately washed
her hands, as she had been instructed.
She didn’t think anything was wrong or different.
She decided to spend the rest of the afternoon shopping at a mall.
Later that night, she was back at her usual spa, waiting for the next prank.
Another prank that would never ever come again.
LOL It’s now clear to the entire world that
Kim Jong Nam was assassinated in a carefully executed plot.
But how did they do it?
Who were the two women?
The world wanted to know who were these trained North Korean agents who managed to get in
the country so easily!
The two women were identified easily off of security tapes.
The Vietnamese woman wearing a white jumper with the big LOL logo was simple to catch.
She was arrested the very next day when she returned to the same airport.
Her name was Doan Thi Huong, And she was given the same exact storyline as Siti.
Just like Siti, she also had dreams of becoming a celebrity.
Well both of their dreams sort of came true.
Just not in the way they imagined.
At 2 in the morning the night after her final prank, Siti Aisyah was arrested in the Flamingo
Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
She had just finished with one of her clients when the police rushed in and put her in cuffs.
The Evidence The first four times Indonesian officials
visited Siti after her arrest, she thought that being in jail was part of the TV show
she was supposed to be on.
She had no idea what really happened at the airport.
The first time police visited her, she kept on asking when she could leave!
The second time, she actually complained that she still hadn't been paid for the last prank.
The third time, she accused the police of being part of the prank.
The fourth time, when officials showed her a popular Indonesian newspaper proving what
actually happened, that’s when it finally hit her.
The girls were clearly the people who had smeared the oily substances all over Kim Jong-nam’s
face.
Their guilt would seem crystal clear to anyone that didn’t have direct knowledge of the
situation.
Under separate questioning, each of them claimed that they had no idea of doing anything wrong,
as they explained they had done this a bunch of times before.
And each time afterwards, their targets were safe and sound.
Many weeks would pass before Siti would come to realize that she had been tricked into
becoming a puppet for North Korea.
The Real Players The Japanese looking guy who went by “James”
was actually a North Korean named Ri Ji-u.
When Siti flew to Cambodia, she didn’t meet “Chang” but Hong Song-hac.
He was a North Korean Intelligence Officer who learned to speak Bahasa during college
and worked in the embassy in Jakarta.
The other girl’s experience had been virtually identical.
She had been trained in the same way and was also brought to Cambodia two days earlier.
She was also accompanied by a North Korean spy with many years of experience in Vietnam.
And while Hong Song-hac and Siti were practicing in the airport, three more spies were also
overseeing everything.
The Concoction The liquid used on Kim Jong-nam was actually
VX-2, an extremely potent nerve agent which acts extremely fast.
It consisted of two separated components, which are harmless by themselves.
But when mixed together, it basically triggers muscles of anyone affected to fire continuously
without ending.
The muscles become tired and breathing becomes impossible!
Each woman was putting one part of the nerve agent onto Kim Jong-nam’s face.
Once the two ingredients mixed together…..that was it for him.
The Aftermath
As Siti sat in her cell, she was shown a picture of Hong.
She realized that he was one of the men she had smeared in the DoubleTree Hotel just two
weeks before.
It became clear to her that even the victims of all the practice pranks were spies who
were in on the very carefully staged rehearsals.
North Korea wanted to show the world how powerful they were and that they could get to anyone.
North Korea was showing the international community they’re just the butt of the world’s
jokes.
Kim Jong-un wants to rule for a very long time.
He wants to be regarded as a major player on the world stage.
As for the girls?
Fortunately, Indonesian judges believed them and finally released them after dropping all
charges in 2019, a full two years later.
Here’s what’s next!