According to Bernama, Malaysia's state news agency, Deputy Prime
Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi announced that North Koreans would now need to get
a visa to travel to the country starting from March 6, 2017.
Malaysian nationals are currently the only people in the world who can
enter North Korea without a visa.
The diplomatic row began when North Korea's ambassador to Malaysia, Kang
Chol, said the country would reject the results of a "forced" autopsy
on one of its citizens and demanded the immediate release of the body.
This is all an aftermath of the death of Kim Jong Nam, the older
half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed on February 13,
2017 before he was supposed to board a flight to the Chinese-controlled
territory of Macau.
Two women have been charged with the murder of Kim, who police said was
killed by smearing VX, a deadly nerve agent, on his face at Kuala Lumpur
International Airport. Ri was the only North Korean to have been detained in
the case, but investigators have named four North Korean suspects who are
believed to be back in Pyongyang.
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