CCTV images show the suspected female assassins who are believed to have murdered North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother in Malaysia.
Kim Jong-Nam, 45, was reportedly assassinated by two Pyongyang agents at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday as he waited to catch a flight to Macau.
The women are believed to have used poisoned needles, a poisoned spray or a poison-laced cloth.
Malaysian and South Korean media broadcast footage of the suspects wanted in connection with the killing.
The CCTV images from outside the capital's international airport show one of the suspects in a sweatshirt with 'LOL' emblazoned across the front.
The assailants are believed to have fled in a taxi after the attack.
Malaysian police revealed on Wednesday that a woman had been arrested in connection with the murder.
They said she was alone at the time and holding a Vietnamese travel document in which she was identified as 28-year-old Doan Thi Huong .
The suspect taken into custody was "positively identified from the CCTV footage at the airport", a statement said.
"Police are looking for a few others, all foreigners," it added.
Detectives are still investigating the cause of death and a post-mortem is due to take place later.
South Korea's Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, now also the country's acting president, said if it was confirmed the North Korean leadership was behind the murder, "that would clearly depict the brutality and inhumanity of the Kim Jong-Un regime".
Kim Jong-Nam is the son of Song Hye-Rim, a South Korean-born actress who is believed to have been a mistress of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
He was a known advocate of reform in North Korea and was vocal about his opposition to the nation's dynastic succession policy.
Understood to be Kim Jong-Il's heir apparent as his eldest son, he was thought to have been overlooked for the succession after a botched attempt to enter Japan in May 2001 on a false Dominican Republic passport.
He claimed he wanted to visit Disney's Tokyo resort, but the incident embarrassed his father, and the then North Korean leader was succeeded by Kim Jong-Un in December 2011.
Following the Japan scandal, Kim Jong-Nam and his family virtually lived in exile in Macau, Singapore and China.
According to South Korean prosecutors, a North Korean detained as a spy in October 2012 admitted being involved in a 2010 plot to stage a hit-and-run car accident targeting Kim Jong-Nam in China.
Sky's Asia Correspondent, Katie Stallard, said: "In terms of motive, perhaps he (Kim Jong-Nam) could have been seen as a threat to Kim Jong-Un's leadership - certainly that is being suggested as one theory behind his killing.
"At this stage there is no shortage of intrigue, but very few actual facts on the ground."
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