Report: North Korea blames Malaysia for death of its citizen


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 23 Feb 2017

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

SEOUL: North Korea blamed Malaysia for the death of one of its citizens there last week and accused it of an “unfriendly attitude”, Pyongyang's state-run KCNA news agency reported.  

It said this follows a scenario drawn up by South Korea, which has said that Pyongyang agents assassinated the North Korean leader's half-brother.  

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