North Korea
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US president told Japanese PM he is ‘100%’ with Tokyo as US moves Thaad missile defence system into South Korea following Pyongyang missile launches
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Ri Jong Chol, a North Korean national, denies being at the airport and says police are trying to coerce a confession from him
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Malaysian police issue arrest warrant for Air Koryo employee who they say arrived in country two weeks before attack on Kim
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Diplomatic row escalates in the wake of the killing of the political exile with a deadly nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport
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Indonesian and Vietnamese suspects could be hanged if they are convicted of killing the half-brother of the North Korean leader
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Editorial: The controversy that has left Park Geun-hye’s presidency hanging in the balance tells us as much about this overlooked country as it does about her
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Ministers believe half-brother of North Korean leader was killed with more than 10mg of UN classified VX nerve agent
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Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, maintains she was duped into killing half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with VX poison
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Talks with former US officials reportedly called off after Pyongyang envoy denied a visa in wake of missile test and Kim Jong-nam murder
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The use of deadly VX makes Kim Jong-nam’s murder even more shocking
Hamish de Bretton-GordonThis assassination has huge ramifications as the use of a WMD appears to offer long-anticipated evidence of North Korea’s chemical weapons programme -
Kuala Lumpur airport terminal to be decontaminated after deadly attack on North Korean leader’s half-brother
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The first short stories smuggled out of North Korea represent a unique challenge for their translator, Deborah Smith
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VX killing of Kim Jong-nam is precedent that can’t be allowed to stand – yet options of international community seem limited
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Kim Jong-un’s regime claims not to possess any chemical weapons, but the use of VX nerve agent to kill Kim Jong-nam could be designed to deter defectors
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Kim Jong-un’s multilingual, well-travelled older brother might have helped the country towards reform
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State news agency insists leader’s half-brother died of heart attack not poisoning, and blames South Korea for ‘conspiratorial racket’
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Malaysian authorities seek to question senior North Korean diplomat and man connected with Air Koryo, while dismissing claims that assassins were duped
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Exclusive: Kim Jong-un’s half-brother felt powerless and conflicted over North Korea’s fate and feared for his own safety in exile
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Japanese TV releases footage purporting to show Kuala Lumpur attack, as North Korea’s envoy accuses Malaysia of running politically motivated investigation
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A video has been released by Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV purportedly showing the deadly attack on the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
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Malaysian police say on Sunday they are looking for four North Korean men who flew out of Malaysia the same day Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, was apparently poisoned at an airport in Kuala Lumpur
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Investigation looking for four men who flew out of Malaysia on day Kim Jong-un’s half-brother was poisoned at an airport
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Murder of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother strengthens calls for more sanctions as US urges China to keep pressure on North Korea
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Move is likely to escalate row as Pyongyang accuses Kuala Lumpur of ‘colluding with outside forces who want to damage the image of our republic’
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Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, duped and ‘not aware it was assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents’, says head of police
The Guardian view on North Korea: Pyongyang’s advantage