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<p>A North Korean national has been arrested over the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother.</p><p>Malasiyan Police has said that the first North Korean to be arrested over Kim Jong-nam's death was named as Ri Jong Chol, 46.</p><p>An Indonesian woman, a Malaysian man and a woman with a Vietnamese passport had been detained earlier.</p><p>Police believe poison had been sprayed into Kim's face while he was waiting to board a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Macau.</p><p>Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi formally confirmed on Thursday that the dead man, who was travelling under the name Kim Chol, was Kim Jong-nam.</p><p>Police say the latest suspect has been detained yesterday evening in Selangor, near the Malaysian capital.<br><p><br>China will suspend all imports of coal from North Korea starting Feb. 19, the country's commerce ministry said in a notice posted on its website on Saturday.</p><p>The Ministry of Commerce said in a short statement that the ban would be effective until Dec. 31.</p><p>The ministry has not said why all shipments would be suspended, but South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported last week that a shipment of North Korean coal worth around $1 million</p><p>was rejected at Wenzhou port on China's eastern coast.</p><p>The rejection came a day after Pyongyang's test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile.</p><p>China announced in April last year that it would ban North Korean coal imports in order to comply with sanctions imposed by the United Nations.<br></p></p>
