The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assassinated Monday in Malaysia, according to South Korean government sources. VOA contacted South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, which neither confirmed nor denied the death of Kim Jong Nam. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Kim Jong Nam was killed by two unidentified North Korean female […]
A U.S. defense official says Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Malaysian counterpart, Hishammuddin Hussein, will board a U.S. warship sailing in the South China Sea Thursday amid diplomatic tensions over China’s maritime expansion in the region. The two will board the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt as it sails off the coast of […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed Thursday that a Boeing 777 wing segment discovered in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is from the missing Flight MH370, the first real breakthrough in the search for the plane that disappeared 17 months ago. “The international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found […]
Investigators may know by the end of the week whether an airplane part that washed up on an Indian Ocean island belonged to the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, Australian officials say. French, Malaysian and Australian officials on Wednesday will begin a thorough examination into the debris, which was discovered last week on a beach […]