North Korea blames Malaysia for death of its citizen - KCNA

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North Korea blames Malaysia for death of its citizen - KCNA

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People watch a TV screen broadcasting a news report on the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the older half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, February 14, 2017. Lim Se-young/News1 via REUTERS

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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea blamed Malaysia on Thursday for the death of one of its citizens there last week and accused it of an "unfriendly attitude" in a scenario drawn up by South Korea, which has said Pyongyang agents assassinated the North Korean leader's half-brother.

 

Malaysia had initially told North Korea that the person bearing a diplomatic passport had died after suffering a heart attack at Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13, Pyongyang's state-run KCNA news agency said.

 

KCNA, citing a spokesman for a state committee, said Malaysia quickly changed its position and started to complicate the matter after reports surfaced in South Korea that the man was poisoned to death.

 

"What merits more serous attention is the fact that the unjust acts of the Malaysian side are timed to coincide with the anti-DPRK conspiratorial racket launched by the South Korean authorities," KCNA said, using the North's formal name of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

 

KCNA, in the first official media report of the killing, did not name the person who died on the way to the hospital or acknowledge that he was the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, referring to him only as "a citizen of the DPRK".

 

"The biggest responsibility for his death rests with the government of Malaysia as the citizen of the DPRK died in its land," the report said.

 

On Wednesday, Malaysian police named a North Korean diplomat along with a state airline official who are wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the 46-year-old older half-brother of Kim Jong Un.

 

Malaysia's police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said both officials were in Malaysia but could not confirm if they were in the North Korean embassy.

 

So far, police have identified a total of eight North Koreans suspected of being linked to the killing. One is in custody.

 

Malaysia has denied North Korea's request for the body to be handed over to its embassy directly, saying it would be released to the next of kin, although none has come forward.

 

The KCNA report accused Malaysia of breaking international law by conducting autopsies on a person bearing a diplomatic passport.

 

(Reporting by Jack Kim and Christine Kim; Editing by Grant McCool and Paul Tait)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-02-23

[trogers]

And the purpose of an autopsy is, diplomatic passport or not?

 

Whose words point to attempts to hide the truth?

[ddavidovsky]

Children. This regime is frailer than people think. A system without rational foundation can and will collapse like a house of cards.

[humqdpf]

At least they are agreeing that the dead man is North Korean, even if he would be the last person who would hold a North Korean diplomatic passport. In fact, it is not at all clear that the North Koreans could even claim him as a citizen as he travelled under another passport and was non persona grata for years in North Korea.

 

I wonder what they will do when the proof comes out that the dead man is who they say he is (via the DNA provided by his son). The son is no fan of the North Korean regime either and will have the right to claim the remains as next of kin.

 

The Malaysians have not yet completed the lab work on the substance put on the deceased face that allegedly led to his death.  Might be interesting when they do.

[mikecha]

7 hours ago, humqdpf said:

At least they are agreeing that the dead man is North Korean, even if he would be the last person who would hold a North Korean diplomatic passport. In fact, it is not at all clear that the North Koreans could even claim him as a citizen as he travelled under another passport and was non persona grata for years in North Korea.

 

I wonder what they will do when the proof comes out that the dead man is who they say he is (via the DNA provided by his son). The son is no fan of the North Korean regime either and will have the right to claim the remains as next of kin.

 

The Malaysians have not yet completed the lab work on the substance put on the deceased face that allegedly led to his death.  Might be interesting when they do.

Dont quite get the bit about he last North Korean to hold a diplomatic passport    all north koreans in all the embassies around the world have one and if a new one is posted somewhere he will have being a diplomat 

    having a dual nationality means that either can claim

 

 

[SheungWan]

16 hours ago, ddavidovsky said:

Children. This regime is frailer than people think. A system without rational foundation can and will collapse like a house of cards.

The child who made the frail prediction above at the founding of the DPRK would be over 60 by now.

[boomerangutang]

The top heads in N.Korea are mentally deranged.  It's similar to what happens to convicts who are kept isolated - they develop their own twisted world-view steeped in paranoia, false-ideas, and vindictiveness.