a seoulbased nonresident fellow at georgetown universitys institute for the study of diplomacy said on tuesday that north korea was playing dirty and not diplomatically apparently hoping this might force malaysia to reverse its findings about mr kims killingmalaysia however showed every intention of pressing ahead with its contention that vx nerve agent had been used in the kim assassinationon tuesday the malaysians presented their formal report about their findings to the executive council of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the group based in the hague that monitors compliance with the chemical weapons convention which malaysia has signedin a statement to the executive council malaysia noted that it did not produce stockpile import export or use vx or any other such chemical weaponmalaysia strongly condemns the use of such a chemical by anyone anywhere and under any circumstances the statement said its use at a public place could have endangered the general publicnorth korea which has not signed the chemical weapons convention is believed to have a large stockpile of vx despite its denialstuesdays developments follow the titfortat expulsion of ambassadors between the two countries kang chol north koreas ambassador to malaysia was expelled on monday over what malaysia considered to be insulting comments north korea responded by formally expelling malaysias ambassador mohamad nizan mohamad though he had already been recalled to malaysia for consultations