KUALA LUMPUR: The UN’s World Food Program said two Malaysian employees were permitted to leave North Korea Thursday, as Kuala Lumpur negotiates for nine more citizens trapped by a diplomatic row over the murder of Kim Jong-Nam.

North Korean barred Malaysians from leaving prompting a tit-for-tat response from Kuala Lumpur as diplomatic tensions soared over the investigation into Kim’s murder at Malaysia’s main airport last month.

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