Despite the request to release the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated half-brother of North Korea's leader, the Malaysian government has revealed that they will not grant the request until his family have provided DNA samples.
So far no family member or next of kin has come to identify or claim the body. We need a DNA sample of a family member to match the profile of the dead person. North Korea has submitted a request to claim the body, but before we release the body we have to identify who the body belongs to, Selangor state police chief Abdul Samah Mat told AFP.