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Where in the World is Kim Jong Un's Dead Half Brother?

Kim Jong Nam's body has gone missing.

It's been more than a month since a pair of female assassins killed Kim Jong Un's half brother with a toxic nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur's airport, and Malaysian authorities are still trying to decide what to do with his dead body.

Since the death of 45-year-old Kim Jong Nam on Feb. 13, the corpse of the North Korean leader's estranged elder sibling has been kept in a hospital morgue in Malaysia's capital. On Tuesday, however, Malaysia's New Straits Times newspaper reported that preparations were underway to put the body on a plane to Beijing, where it will make a stopover before heading to Pyongyang.

But it looks like that hasn't happened — at least not yet. Local media outlets have offered conflicting accounts of what's going on with the corpse.

Malaysia's China Press reported Monday that the body was removed from the morgue and possibly sent to a crematorium, but reporters from New Straits Times spotted medical officers bringing a coffin back to the hospital on Tuesday "wrapped tightly in plastic with a red 'Fragile' sticker on it."

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