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Significance
Separately, Malaysia's health ministry said yesterday that the autopsy on Kim Jong-un's recently deceased half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, was inconclusive. Reports suggest that the latter's death, widely attributed to Pyongyang agents, may scupper tentative plans for North Korean diplomats to visit the United States.
Impacts
Malaysia and other ASEAN nations, hitherto friendly to Pyongyang, will be frosty henceforth.
The Trump administration's review of North Korea policy may well lead to fresh outreach.
With South Korea's president undergoing impeachment, Seoul's calls for a hard line against Pyongyang no longer carry weight.
Keywords:
North Korea,
AP,
China,
South Korea,
United States,
international relations,
foreign policy,
nuclear weapons,
sanctions
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