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Restaurant worker shared Kim Jong Nam’s fingerprints, DNA with S.Korea: source

Source says NIS requested Koryo-Won restaurant provide them with cutlery, dinnerware

A senior restaurant employee in Kuala Lumpur supplied South Korean intelligence services with the fingerprints and DNA of the late Kim Jong Nam as early as 2014, one of the workers told NK News on Tuesday.

The source, a South Korean national, agreed to speak on condition of anonymity out of concern that North Korean agents would harm them for cooperating with the South Koreans.

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