North Korea reports fatal building accident with pained leader Kim Jong Un ‘up all night’

“Sat up all night, feeling painful after being told about the accident” ... Despite North Korea leader Kim Jung Un’s anguish little is known about the fatal building collapse. Source: AFP

IT never reports negative news about its people, about incidents or physical attacks.

But the highly controlled official Korean Central News Agency has just made an exception, so the negative incident must be extremely serious.

So extreme that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un “sat up all night, feeling painful after being told about the accident.”

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KCNA reported that a “serious” accident occurred in Phyongchon district last Tuesday “as the construction of an apartment house was not done properly and officials supervised and controlled it in an irresponsible manner.”

The “irresponsible manner” of supervising and controlling the incident meant that the rescue operation only ended yesterday.

There is no mention of anyone dying but officials apologised to bereaved families and district residents suggesting there were many deaths.

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In this Monday Oct. 10, 2011 photo, North Korean men pay their respects in front of a statue of the late North Korean President Kim Il Sung at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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