SEOUL: Senior North Korean officials have publicly apologised for an “unimaginable” accident at an apartment construction site, state media said, a rare admission of culpability by the secretive hardline state.
South Korean officials said the incident involved the collapse of a 23-storey apartment building in Pyongyang’s Pyongchon district, which already had close to 100 families in residence.
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