“No… it is our jurisdiction, not theirs,” he told a media conference at Bukit Aman here today.
He was responding to a question on whether Malaysia would agree to the request from North Korean ambassador Kang Chol for a joint investigation into the murder.
Kang demanded Monday that North Korea be allowed to join the probe into the death of its citizen after accusing Malaysia of “colluding and playing into the gallery of external forces”.
The Malaysian government has denied the allegation.
In a statement released late Monday, Prime Minister Najib Razak slammed the North Korean envoy for making the allegations and defended the Malaysian authorities’ professionalism and objectivity in handling the probe.
Najib said Malaysia’s police and doctors were professional and objective in the investigation.
Jong Nam, the elder half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, died on Feb 13 while on the way to the Putrajaya Hospital.
Earlier that day, Jong Nam was at the KL International Airport 2 (klia2) about 8am, waiting for his flight to Macau, when a woman suddenly wiped his face with a cloth believed to be laced with poison.
Jong Nam had come to Malaysia on Feb 6 and was travelling on a passport under the name Kim Chol.