
The reclusive country of North Korea has confirmed a severing of diplomatic ties with Malaysia after its one-time ally agreed to extradite a North Korean citizen to the US. According to the Bangkok Post, Pyongyang has described the extradition as an “unpardonable crime”, accusing Malaysia of responding to US pressure with blind obedience.
The country’s foreign ministry has announced that all ties with Malaysia have been cut, insisting the North Korean citizen facing extradition was carrying out legal trading activities in Singapore. Following a hearing at Malaysia’s top court on March 9, Mun Chol Myong lost his final appeal against extradition to the US. He denies charges of money laundering, conspiring to launder money, and supplying prohibited items to North Korea.
In the past, a number of businesses in Singapore have been accused of sending items such as expensive liquor and watches to the country, thereby violating sanctions imposed on Pyongyang as a result of its nuclear weapons programmes.
North Korea and Malaysia enjoyed a close relationship until the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother at Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017. Kim Jong Un’s estranged relative, Kim Jong Nam, was killed as he waited to board a flight. An Indonesian woman and a Vietnamese woman were arrested after rubbing a banned nerve agent in Kim’s face. However, murder charges against them were dropped in 2019, with their lawyers arguing that they were merely pawns hired by a group of North Koreans. After hiring and training the women, the men fled Malaysia shortly after Kim’s assassination.
The murder of Kim Jong Nam, widely thought to have been ordered by his half-brother, led to a distinct frostiness in relations between Malaysia and North Korea, with reciprocal visa-free travel pacts cancelled and North Korean coal mine workers in Borneo sent home. It looked like the situation was improving when Malaysia recently announced the re-opening of its embassy in Pyongyang, but the latest developments mean relations are on a downhill trajectory once more.
SOURCE: Bangkok Post
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that is blessing
Not a punishmentNorth Korea is one country that will cause many problems to the world in the future
Away from them great news
Wonder how THailand is going with North Korea never hear much about that ?
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Strange that a set of female assassin’s were freed after admissions of guilt ” smearing a banned nerve agent on the victims face”. Normally, that’s premeditated murder in the first degree.
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So funny. Big baby North Korea, shame on the Malaysians for being allied with this piss pot country in the first place.
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Nobody here cares about NK though…
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@J West
Ladies were practicing Songkran, they had no idea that liquid was dangerous…. Hence the real meaning of being innocent
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that is blessing
Not a punishment
North Korea is one country that will cause many problems to the world in the future
Away from them great news
Wonder how THailand is going with North Korea never hear much about that ?
Good Luck Thailand
Strange that a set of female assassin’s were freed after admissions of guilt ” smearing a banned nerve agent on the victims face”. Normally, that’s premeditated murder in the first degree.
So funny. Big baby North Korea, shame on the Malaysians for being allied with this piss pot country in the first place.
Nobody here cares about NK though…
@J West
Ladies were practicing Songkran, they had no idea that liquid was dangerous…. Hence the real meaning of being innocent