Disaster in North Korea: A residential building in the capital, Pyongyang, collapsed last Tuesday, resulting in an estimated hundreds of deaths.<\/p>\r\n
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported the incident today [Sunday], and a senior regime official apologized and expressed his "deepest condolences" to the families of the victims. This apology is considered an exception in the isolated and dictatorial regime that rules the country.<\/p>\r\n
The statement said that "the construction of the apartment building was not done properly and those who supervised the construction did so irresponsibly." The statement also mentioned 'casualties', although the number of dead or injured was not specified.\u00a0South Korea's Unification Ministry, on the other hand, reported that an estimated 92 families lived in the building, so the disaster likely claimed the lives of hundreds of people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n World news sites quote a senior government official as saying that ruler Kim Jong Un was "up all night and had difficulty falling asleep due to the pain of the accident victims.".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The isolated country issued an unusual apology, admitting that the building was built 'irresponsibly' \u2022 "Ruler Kim had difficulty falling asleep due to pain"'","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[201,3530,3529,3531],"class_list":["post-20578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24","tag-201","tag-3530","tag-3529","tag-3531"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n