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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities wrongly identified the slain half-brother of North Korea's leader as a South Korean national and first alerted Seoul's embassy in Kuala Lumpur soon after his death, sources familiar with the incident told Reuters.
The error did have a silver lining – It enabled Seoul to quickly inform Kuala Lumpur the dead man was probably Kim Jong-nam, the elder half-brother to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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