NewsTracker Answers for week of Feb. 20, 2017

Q: Malaysian police are seeking four North Korean men who left the country on the same day that Kim Jong-nam, the North Korean leader’s estranged half-brother, was apparently assassinated with a poison forced into his face. Where is Malaysia or North Korea?

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Q: Four people already have been arrested in the killing at the airport in Malaysia’s capital . . .

A. Hanoi

B. Jakarta

C. Kuala Lumpur

D. Pyongyang


C. Officials in Kuala Lumpur - the nation’s largest city as well as its capital - have arrested people carrying identification documents from North Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. The Indonesian woman said she believed she was playing a role in a television comedy prank.


Q: Kim Jong-nam was attacked last week by two women as he was waiting for a flight home to Macau. Where is Macau?

A. China

B. Japan

C. North Korea

D. South Korea


A. Macau is an autonomous territory of China. A former Portuguese colony 40 miles east of Hong Kong, Macau is the world’s largest gambling center and one of the world’s richest regions. Kim Jong-nam had a reputation as a playboy and gambler.


Q: The dead man’s youngest brother, Kim Jong-Un took power in 2011 and is the son and grandson of dictators who have ruled North Korea since the defeat of what nation in 1945?

A. China

B. Japan

C. Russia

D. Vietnam


B. Japan occupied Korea from 1910 until its defeat in 1945. The Soviet Union then occupied the north half of peninsula and put communist guerrilla Kim Il-sung in charge. His family has ruled North Korea ever since.


Q: Kim Jong-Un is believed to be behind the assassination of his exiled brother a move that would further strain his relations with his closest ally . . .

A. China

B. Japan

C. Russia

D. South Korea


A. China was already upset with North Korea’s recent missile test and has blocked coal imports from its desperately poor neighbor. China had provided a refuge for the late Kim Jong-nam, and his killing could further isolate the North Korean regime in Pyongyang.