We may have to offer them protection now. N.Korea is fueling missiles to head in their direction as we post this. And the country is basically without leadership now.
The King is still alive, it is the Prince that was killed.
From the article:
Now the last monarchy in the Pacific, Tonga has been a Polynesian kingdom and a protectorate of Britain, from which it acquired independence in 1970. It is ruled by 87-year-old King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.