In 2017, North Korea was accused of using the nerve agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong Nam, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's older half-brother, at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia.

Chemical weapons called nerve agents were likely ... For example, VX resembles a thick oil but dissolves in water (a drop killed Kim Jong Nam), while sarin (which was spread over a Syria's Idlib ...

Kim Jong Nam was the victim of an intricately orchestrated assassination plot, in which two women allegedly attacked him with VX nerve agent, each smearing his face with substances that reacted ...