{"id":17389,"date":"2019-04-01T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T03:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T03:50:41","slug":"update-kim-suspect-pleads-guilty-to-lower-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17389","title":{"rendered":"Update: Kim suspect pleads guilty to lower charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Latest on the trial of a Vietnamese woman in the killing of estranged North Korean scion Kim Jong Nam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer for Doan Thi Huong says she is pleading guilty to a reduce charge in Kim Jong Nam&#8217;s killing and is asking for leniency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huong nodded as the translator read the new charge to her. The translator later told the court that Huong pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huong&#8217;s lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court that her plea showed Huong &#8220;has taken responsibility&#8221; for her actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In asking for a lenient sentence he also told the court that her move also saved judicial time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vietnamese woman is the only suspect in custody for the killing of the estranged half brother of North Korea&#8217;s leader with VX nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Latest on the trial of a Vietnamese woman in the killing of estranged North Korean scion Kim Jong Nam. A lawyer for Doan Thi Huong says she is pleading guilty to a reduce charge in Kim Jong Nam&#8217;s killing and is asking for leniency. Huong nodded as the translator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":17396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}