Malaysians ask 'what's next?' after Kim Jong Nam's body is sent back to North Korea
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645246
Malaysians ask 'what's next?' after Kim Jong Nam's body is sent back to North Korea
- Title: Malaysians ask 'what's next?' after Kim Jong Nam's body is sent back to North Korea
- Date: 31st March 2017
- Summary: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (MARCH 31, 2017) (REUTERS) KUALA LUMPUR SKYLINE TWIN TOWERS PEOPLE WALKING AROUND CENTRAL MARKET MAN WALKING OUT OF RESTAURANT UTUSAN MALAYSIA NEWSPAPER HEADLINE READING (Bahasa Malaysia): "CRISIS ENDS" CHINA PRESS NEWSPAPER (LEFT) SHOWING KIM JONG NAM'S PHOTO AND READING (Mandarin): "GONE HOME", GUANGMING DAILY NEWSPAPER (RIGHT) SHOWING KIM'S PHOTO AND READING (Mandarin): "RETURNS BODY AND RELEASES PEOPLE (IN PYONGYANG)" (FROM TOP TO BOTTOM) HEADLINE OF BERITA HARIAN NEWSPAPER READING (Bahasa Malaysia): "CRISIS ENDS" AND HEADLINE OF MALAY MAIL NEWSPAPER READING (English): "STANDOFF ENDS" TAXI DRIVER, MOHAMMAD AKRAM ABDUL RAHMAN, STANDING BY HIS CAR KUALA LUMPUR TOWER (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Malaysia) TAXI DRIVER, MOHAMMAD AKRAM ABDUL RAHMAN, SAYING: "I'm not really relieved even though the case has ended because I think something will happen again. Just like after MH370, I thought something big would happen in the same year, and months later MH17 was shot down. Nothing is impossible and events as such as this keep repeating with a pattern." BUS STOP, TRAFFIC ON ROAD PEOPLE WAITING FOR BUS (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) KUALA LUMPUR RESIDENT, CHONG YEN PENG, SAYING: "Of course I'm happy (that the Malaysians have returned), and so are their families. I have no idea how the government of the two nations resolved this problem, but as a common person it is good that now they can live their own lives." VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF KUALA LUMPUR HOSPITAL'S MORTUARY PERSON WALKING PAST WHERE AREA REPORTERS HAVE BEEN STATIONED GRAFFITI ON WALL INDICATING HOW MANY DAYS HAVE PAST SINCE THE NEWS BROKE
- Embargoed: 14th April 2017 05:28
- Keywords: Malaysia North Korea Kim Jong Nam murder body
- Location: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
- City: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
- Country: Malaysia
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0016AAHSG7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Though a sense of relief hung in the air in Malaysia on Friday (March 31), as a diplomatic crisis between Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang stemming from the murder of Kim Jong Nam came to an end, some Malaysians questioned whether another bizarre event was on the horizon.
This is the third time Malaysia has come into the international spotlight. Three years ago, the Beijing-bound Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared without a trace, and just a few months later, another Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine.
Malaysia put the body of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a plane to Pyongyang on Thursday (March 30), 44 days after he was murdered in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, in a deal that secured the release of its citizens being held in Pyongyang and ended a drawn-out diplomatic spat.
The nine people, including three embassy officials and six of their family members, arrived in Kuala Lumpur early on Friday on a business jet operated by the Royal Malaysian Air Force. Two, possibly three, North Koreans wanted for questioning over the murder were believed to have accompanied the coffin of the victim on a flight to Beijing.
U.S. and South Korean intelligence sources say North Korea masterminded the deadly attack on Kim Jong Nam using VX nerve agent, a chemical so toxic that it is on a U.N. list of weapons of mass destruction. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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