PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has denounced North Korea’s decision to sever diplomatic ties and in an immediate response, ordered all diplomatic staff and their dependants at Pyongyang’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur to leave the country by this weekend.
In a strongly-worded statement yesterday, Wisma Putra described the North Korean unilateral decision to cut ties as “unfriendly and unconstructive” and that it was against “the spirit of mutual respect and good neighbourly relations among members of the international community”.
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