All 30 people including the North Korean Embassy staff on Weekend Ray withdrew… Boarding to Shanghai (2 steps in total)

On the afternoon of the 21st, 30 North Koreans, including staff and family members of the North Korean embassy in Malaysia, withdrew from Malaysia on a passenger plane bound for Shanghai, China.

According to local media and foreign media in Malaysia, the North Korean embassy staff left the embassy on a large bus at 11 am on the same day and checked in for a passenger plane bound for Shanghai at Kuala Lumpur Airport.

Bernama news agency reported, “33 North Koreans, including several children, boarded the flight FM886 of Shanghai Airlines.

He added, “The North Korean Ambassador Kim Yoo-sung and Song Ki-cheol helped the rest of the returnees check in.”

There is no airline route directly between Malaysia and North Korea, and it was confirmed that the FM886 flight took off from Kuala Lumpur to Shanghai at 4:56 pm on the same day.

It was found that there were only FM886 flights from Kuala Lumpur to mainland China on that day.

It is estimated that the returning party included not only North Korean diplomatic personnel and their families, but also some North Koreans who remained in Malaysia.

Malaysia and North Korea canceled the visa waiver agreement after the’Assassination of Kim Jong-nam’ in 2017, and there were few new entrants.

On this day, before the bus departed for the airport, Ambassador Kim Yoo-seong came out of the North Korean embassy and made a statement.

Ambassador Kim said, “The Malaysian government will have to endure the consequences of this incident,” and criticized that “this incident is the product of an anti-North Korean conspiracy created by the US’s heinous policy.”

“The Malaysian authorities blindly supported the United States,” he said. “As Malaysia delivered the innocent Korean people to the United States, it completely destroyed the basis of bilateral relations.”

Malaysia and North Korea maintained friendly relations after establishing diplomatic relations in 1973.

However, on February 13, 2017, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the relationship between the two countries sharply diminished after the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the North Korean leader of the North Korean State Council, with a VX nerve agent.

The two countries matched the ambassadors of the other country, and North Korea went to the brink of breakup by detaining all Malaysians in the country and taking them hostage.

After not sending the ambassadors of the two countries to each other, the Malaysian authorities arrested and handed over the North Korean businessman Moon Cheol-myeong living in Kuala Lumpur to the United States on charges such as money laundering and violation of UN sanctions, North Korea declared a rupture in diplomatic relations. .

The Malaysian government also responded and ordered North Korean diplomatic staff and family members to leave within 48 hours, and announced that “the Malaysian embassy in Pyongyang, which has already been shut down since 2017 (according to the assassination of Kim Jong-nam), will be closed.”

Afterwards, local media and foreign journalists flocked in front of the North Korean embassy in Damansara, Bukit, in western Kuala Lumpur, and police were also deployed.

The North Korean embassy’s artificial plane was hung up to the day before, but it was lowered overnight, and a large bus entered the front yard of the North Korean embassy on that day at 9:10 am and waited.

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