Judge dons mask as nerve agent evidence shown in Kim Jong Nam murder trial

An entrance to the courthouse is cordoned off as the trial of two women accused of killing the North Korean leader's half-brother Kim Jong Nam hears evidence of a nerve agent (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A Malaysian judge and court officials wore face masks and surgical gloves in court as samples were admitted as evidence of where VX nerve agent was found on the body and clothing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader.

On the third day of the murder trial of the two women accused of poisoning Kim Jong Nam, government pathologist Mohamad Shah Mahmood said chemist's tests had detected VX, as well as VX precursors and VX byproducts, in Kim's eye mucus, on his face, in his blood and urine, and on his clothing.