In N. Korea’s game of chicken with Malaysia over ‘hostages’, who will blink first?


Kim Jong-un.

The two countries are at loggerheads over the killing on Feb 13 of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Kuala Lumpur – an act Pyongyang is widely considered to have orchestrated, despite its claims of a conspiracy against it.


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