The High Court in Shah Alam has fixed trial dates for the two women charged with the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un.

The trial for Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong is set to begin from Oct 2 to 5 and will be heard for 23 days throughout October and November.

Justice Azmi Ariffin has decided that pleas will be taken on the first day of the hearing and that both cases will be tried jointly. 

Deputy public prosecutor Iskandar Ahmad said they had provided an additional 33 documents and a number of CDs for the defence, which were received today. 

This was on top of the 44 documents they already provided to the defence earlier, he said. 

He also said that they intend to call around 30 to 40 witnesses for the trial. 

Brought to the Shah Alam High Court today, Siti Aisyah and Doan were clad in baju kurung and were seen smiling and greeting their lawyers and respective embassy representatives.

Doan's lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik later told reporters that his client, who he described as an actress and model, is "well and fine".

Meanwhile, Siti Aisyah's lawyer Gooi Soon Seng confirmed that they had received the documents from the prosecution along with 26 CDs, with 24 of those containing CCTV recordings from the airport and two others containing documents.

He also said that one of the CCTV recordings was of a "prank" Siti Aisyah had purportedly done several days before the murder.

Playing a prank

It was reported previously that Siti Aisyah claimed that she thought she was carrying out a prank on Jong-nam.

She also claimed to have been paid to play pranks on other strangers in Kuala Lumpur for a reality TV show.

Indonesian acting ambassador Andreano Erwin said Siti Aisyah was seen tearing up at the end of today's case management because "it is going to be a long trial and she does not know what is going to happen".

He said it is a normal human reaction to feel distressed when faced with these circumstances.

Siti Aisyah has also been allowed to have a phone conversation with her family while she was in detention, he revealed.

"We respect Malaysian laws, that is why we already hired a lawyer. We hired seven lawyers to assist Siti Aisyah.

"We don't want to interfere with Malaysian law....we hope that the trial will be done in a transparent way," he said.

Jong-nam was murdered on Feb 13 this year at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

The two women are said to have smeared a toxic substance on the victim in the airport lobby.

It was later established that the assailants had used the VX nerve agent.

Besides Siti Aisyah and Doan, four other suspects at large, believed to be North Koreans, are wanted in connection with the incident.