{"id":9647,"date":"2017-03-09T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kim-jong-nam-death-malaysian-un-workers-leave-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:57:38","slug":"kim-jong-nam-death-malaysian-un-workers-leave-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kim-jong-nam-death-malaysian-un-workers-leave-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-nam death: Malaysian UN workers leave North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Malaysian police officers gather before a protest organised by members of the youth wing of the National Front, Malaysia&#039;s ruling coalition, in front of the North Korea embassy, following the murder of Kim Jong-nam, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 23 February 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/FACD\/production\/_95050246_malaysiareu.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      The murder of Kim Jong-nam has dramatically soured ties between Malaysia and North Korea                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Two UN workers who were among 11 Malaysians banned from leaving North Korea have flown out of the country, the UN says. <\/p>\n<p>The pair, who are employed by the World Food Programme (WFP), arrived in Beijing on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>North Korea and Malaysia on Tuesday banned each other&#039;s citizens from leaving, in a row over the killing of the North Korean leader&#039;s half-brother.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-nam was killed with a potent nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has not directly blamed North Korea for this, but there is widespread suspicion Pyongyang was responsible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malaysia and North Korea: A friendship on ice<\/li>\n<li>Kim Han-sol: The open-minded son of Kim Jong-nam<\/li>\n<li>Who in North Korea could organise a VX murder?<\/li>\n<li>Main players in mysterious killing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Investigators have demanded North Korea hand over suspects, three of whom are thought to be hiding in North Korea&#039;s embassy in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has fiercely denied culpability and the row over the killing - and who has the right to claim Mr Kim&#039;s body - has rapidly escalated over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement, WFP confirmed its employees were now in China. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The staff members are international civil servants and not representatives of their national government,&quot; it said. <\/p>\n<p>A government official told AFP news agency Malaysia did not play a role in securing the release of the pair, who hold UN travel documents. <\/p>\n<p>Their departure leaves nine Malaysian nationals in North Korea. The Malaysian authorities say there are about 1,000 North Koreans currently in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak wrote on Facebook that he had spoken to Encik Mohd Nor Azrin, counsellor at the Malaysian Embassy in North Korea. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have given him my assurance that the government will do everything we can to ensure that they return home safely soon,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Even though they are refrained from leaving the country, the North Korean government have assured us of their safety and they are free to go about their daily lives.&quot; <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Media captionKim Jong-nam was poisoned with an extraordinarily potent chemical weapon called VX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Korea enacted its travel ban first, saying Malaysians could not leave until &quot;the incident that happened in Malaysia is properly solved&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia described Pyongyang&#039;s move as an &quot;abhorrent act&quot; and put in place a reciprocal ban. Immigration officials in Sarawak, Malaysia have since detained dozens of North Koreans, saying their work permits have expired.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Razak said on Thursday that diplomatic ties between the two sides would not be cut. &quot;We need to continue communicating with them to find a solution,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday he said officials were still trying to get DNA samples from Mr Kim&#039;s immediate family to formally identify his body, saying maybe they were &quot;scared to come forward&#039;&#039;.  <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Media captionKim Han-sol: &#039;My father has been killed&#039;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A video emerged on Wednesday of Kim Han-sol, the son of Kim Jong-nam. Officials at South Korea&#039;s Unification Ministry and National Intelligence Service confirmed his identity. <\/p>\n<p>In the short clip, he said he was with his mother and sister but did not say where. It was his first appearance since the death of his father. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We hope this gets better soon,&quot; he said.  <\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-39214607 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ReutersImage caption The murder of Kim Jong-nam has dramatically soured ties between Malaysia and North Korea Two UN workers who were among 11 Malaysians banned from leaving North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}