Blame Malaysia!☞

My name is Daniel. I was an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and now I am a writer who has published

three books including South Korea: Our Story by Daniel Nardini, and My Taiwan, Seoul and 

Guadalajara (Mexico) Memoirs by Daniel Nardini.

                      Well, it is official: North Korea is blaming Malaysia for the death of Kim Jong-nam and said

that Kim simply "died" of a heart attack. The North Korean government is going further in saying that Malaysia

has been "pressured" by South Korea to put the blame of the death on North Korea, and by "refusing" to 

return the body of Kim Jong-nam to North Korea. Yes, it is a Blame Malaysia campaign where the DPRK

(Democratic People's Republic of Korea---official name of North Korea) is innocent and that it does not matter

that the Malaysian police found a banned nerve gas agent, VX, was used after an autopsy, and it does not

seem to matter that those North Korean officials responsible for the planned murder have either escaped to North Korea or refuse to testify when ordered by the Malaysian government. All of this was caught on video cameras,

and the testimony from the two women who carried out the assassination simply confirms that this was a 

planned act. But according to the North Korean government, it is all a conspiracy by both Malaysia and South

Korea to draw attention away from the installation of the THAAD anti-missile defense system in South Korea

that is such a "threat" to North Korea. This accusation just does not hold water. I have been to Malaysia, and I 

learned through my experience that Malaysia is trying its best to remain neutral to any and all political ideologies and animosities in the region. That Malaysia has tried to host Chinese and South Korean tourists while also

allowing a North Korean presence on its soil is testament to that. What has changed is that North Korea has

spat on Malaysia's sovereignty by carrying out this assassination and other illegal activities on Malaysian

soil. In my view, the North Korean embassy should be forcibly closed down, all its personnel kicked out of

Malaysia, and North Korea be put back on a terrorism watch list.