His body was to have been repatriated to Macau yesterday after having been released the day before.
It is believed that the foreign ministry are liaising with the deceased North Korean’s family, who are residing in Macau.
According to the daily, the body returned to HKL at around 9.15pm last night, directly from the KLIA cargo terminal after the technical issue occurred, wherein the body could not be loaded into the aircraft.
Meanwhile, Bernama reported that the tight security that had been in place at the HKL’s National Forensic Medicine Institute until the body was removed on Sunday, has now resumed with police sealing the entrance after the ambulance with Jong’s Nam’s remains were returned last night.
At about 9pm yesterday, the main entrance of the institute had been closed again and media representatives were not allowed to enter the compound.
Sources told TheSun that the repatriation of the body will be done by tomorrow.
It has been six weeks since Jong Nam was killed at the klia2 airport in Sepang.
Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed on Feb 13 while awaiting a flight to Macau. He was attacked by two women who wiped his face with a substance later identified as VX nerve agent, a chemical poison classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.
The two women – Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aisyah – were charged with murder on March 1, while the police seek three North Korean men believed to be holed up in the embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
Four other male suspects, all North Korean, fled the country on the same day of the murder. They have been identified as Ri Ji Hyon, Hong Song Hac, O Jong Gil and Ri Jae Nam.