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FILE - In this May 14, 2015 file photo, construction workers chat in front of a billboard for state investment fund 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) at the fund's flagship Tun Razak Exchange development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to recover $540 million in assets, including penthouse apartments, paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and a yacht known as the Equanimity, that it says were stolen from Malaysia's troubled sovereign wealth fund, prompting objections from Malaysian officials who said Friday, June 16, 2017 there was no evidence of such crimes. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)
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Mohd Nur Azrin Md Zin, one the nine Malaysians who were returned from Pyongyang, speaks during a press conference, watched by Malaysia's Foreign minister Anifah Aman, left, at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong Nam to North Korea in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians held in the North's capital. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)
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Malaysia's Foreign minister Anifah Aman, center, give a press conference next to the nine Malaysians who were returned from Pyongyang at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong Nam to North Korea in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians held in the North's capital. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Malaysia's Foreign minister Anifah Aman, third right, walks next to the nine Malaysians who were returned from Pyongyang at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong Nam to North Korea in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians held in the North's capital. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)
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Malaysians who were stranded in Pyongyang walk with Malaysia's Foreign minister Anifah Aman, center right, after arriving at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong Nam to North Korea in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians held in the North's capital. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Malaysia's Foreign minister Anifah Aman, third right, walks next to the nine Malaysians who were returned from Pyongyang at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong-nam to North Korea in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians held in the North's capital. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)
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Police officers take position outside North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. North Korea closed its borders Tuesday to Malaysians who want to leave the country, spurring Malaysia to issue a retaliatory order and drawing hundreds of ordinary people into an increasingly bitter diplomatic battle over the killing of an exiled member of North Korea's ruling family.(AP Photo/Daniel Chan)
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Police puts a cordon off the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The bitter diplomatic dispute between North Korea and Malaysia over the poisoning death of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother escalated dramatically Tuesday, with Pyongyang saying it had banned Malaysians from leaving North Korea. That was followed quickly by Malaysia saying North Korean embassy staff were barred from leaving its country. Malaysia had already expelled the North Korean ambassador on Monday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Police cordon off the North Korean embassy i in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Malaysia says North Korean Embassy staff barred from leaving country, after Pyongyang blocked Malaysians. Malaysia says North Korean Embassy staff are barred from leaving country, after Pyongyang blocked Malaysians from leaving North Korea in the bitter diplomatic dispute between North Korea and Malaysia over the poisoning death of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother in Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Police car blocked the entrance of North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Malaysia says North Korean Embassy staff barred from leaving country, after Pyongyang blocked Malaysians. Malaysia says North Korean Embassy staff are barred from leaving country, after Pyongyang blocked Malaysians from leaving North Korea in the bitter diplomatic dispute between North Korea and Malaysia over the poisoning death of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother in Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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A North Korean embassy staff asks police if they are allowed to leave as police puts a cordon at North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Malaysia says North Korean Embassy staff are barred from leaving country, after Pyongyang blocked Malaysians from leaving North Korea in the bitter diplomatic dispute between North Korea and Malaysia over the poisoning death of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother in Kuala Lumpur.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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North Korea's Ambassador to Malaysia Kang Chol speaks to the media outside the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this Feb. 20, 2017, file photo. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says the expulsion of North Korea’s ambassador was to warn Pyongyang that they cannot manipulate Malaysia’s investigation into Kim Jong-nam’s murder. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
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Media film and photograph a North Korean diplomatic vehicle leaving the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Malaysia is scrapping visa-free entry for North Koreans traveling into the country, the state news agency said Thursday in the latest fallout from a deadly nerve agent attack at Kuala Lumpur airport. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Media film and photograph a North Korean diplomatic vehicle leaving the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Malaysia is scrapping visa-free entry for North Koreans traveling into the country, the state news agency said Thursday in the latest fallout from a deadly nerve agent attack at Kuala Lumpur airport. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Ri Tong Il, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Nations, center, speaks to reporters outside the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, March 2, 2017. The North Korean envoy said a heart attack likely killed Kim Jong Nam, not VX nerve agent as a Malaysia autopsy showed. Ri told reporters Thursday that the victim took medication for heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Malaysia is scrapping visa-free entry for North Koreans traveling into the country, the state news agency said Thursday in the latest fallout from a deadly nerve agent attack at Kuala Lumpur airport.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Ri Tong Il, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to journalist outside the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, March 2, 2017. The North Korean envoy said a heart attack likely killed Kim Jong Nam, not VX nerve agent as a Malaysia autopsy showed. Ri told reporters Thursday that the victim took medication for heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Malaysia is scrapping visa-free entry for North Koreans traveling into the country, the state news agency said Thursday in the latest fallout from a deadly nerve agent attack on Kim at Kuala Lumpur airport. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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North Korean Embassy counselor Kim Yu Song, second right, reads out a press release to reporters at the gate of the embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. The banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent was used in the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean ruler's outcast half brother who was poisoned last week at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, police said Friday. North Korea has denounced Malaysia's investigation as full of "holes and contradictions" and accused the authorities here of being in cahoots with Pyongyang's enemies. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Zahid Hamidi, right, speaks to media during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Two women holding foreign passports have been arrested in the killing of the North Korean leader's estranged half brother who was reportedly poisoned by a pair of female assassins who assaulted him as he waited for a flight this week in Malaysia, police said Thursday. (AP Photo/King Chai)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, a Nepali Prem Bahadur Ale Magar, 23, takes a selfie while he waits for his flight to Malaysia, where he will work in a warehouse as a cleaner, at Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. The unskilled workers fill a host of global demands: building highways, stadiums and houses in Gulf states and guarding shopping malls, sewing sweatshirts and assembling televisions in Malaysia. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Branden Stobbs, center right, and Thomas Laslett, center left, two of the nine Australian men arrested arrive at the Sepang Magistrate in Sepang, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Nine Australian friends who have spent four nights in Malaysian police detention will appear in a court for the first time on Thursday after stripping down to their briefs and drinking beer from shoes at the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix, an official said. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
