Najib Razak
Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the end of the crisis in relations with Pyongyang. The corresponding entry he posted on his microblog.
“A special flight with nine citizens of Malaysia left the airspace of North Korea. A diplomatic crisis [in our relationship] ended,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak)
March 30, 2017, 12:20
Several minutes earlier on the website of Razak was reported that Pyongyang had allowed the citizens of Malaysia, which until then had been prohibited from leaving Korea, to leave the country. The Prime Minister thanked the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Malaysia for the important role played in resolving the crisis, and announced that as a retaliatory gesture allows the North Koreans to freely leave the country.
The cause of the crisis in relations between the two countries was the assassination on 13 February at the airport of Kuala Lumpur citizen of North Korea with passport in the name of Kim Chol. According to the Malaysian police, it was Kim Jong-Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Than the UN. The leather men had traces of the nerve agent VX, prohibited by the international chemical weapons Convention.
On suspicion of crime was arrested a native of Korea, Malaysian police have surrounded the Embassy of the DPRK. In response, Pyongyang has banned to leave the country Embassy of Malaysia, in response to what Kuala Lumpur has to take a similar step against North Korean diplomats.