An autopsy on a North Korean man believed to be the half-brother of the country's leader Kim Jong-Un will be carried out Wednesday, Malaysian police said Wednesday after the South confirmed his assassination.

"A post mortem on the North Korean man will be done today," Abdul Samah Mat, the police chief of Malaysia's Selangor state, told AFP. He would not confirm the man's identity or say when the results of the autopsy will be released.