KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Two Malaysians working for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) who were stranded in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) amid a diplomatic fallout had left the country, a WFP spokesperson said Thursday.
""WFP confirms that two WFP staff of Malaysian nationality have left the DPRK and arrived in Beijing today,"" a WFP spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua in a written reply.
""The staff members are international civil servants and not representatives of their national government. They work on WFP's programs in the DPRK,"" the spokesperson said.
Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Reezal Merican said earlier there were 11 Malaysian citizens stranded in the DPRK.
With the two leaving the DPRK, a total of nine Malaysian citizens are still left behind.