North Korean staff left the country’s embassy in Malaysia on Sunday, two days after Pyongyang cut diplomatic ties with Kuala Lumpur for extraditing a DPRK national to the U.S.

“This incident is an out and out product of an anti-DPRK conspiracy created from a heinous policy of the hostility by the United States,” Kim Yu Song, North Korea’s charge d’affaires in Malaysia, said to the press gathered in front of the North Korean diplomatic compound.