North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-un has communicated "unpleasant distress" over a transport mishap that left 32 Chinese travelers and four North Koreans dead.
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The mishap occurred on Sunday night in North Hwanghae region, when the visit transport dove off a scaffold.
It is uncommon for North Korea's firmly controlled media to write about negative news, and for Mr Kim to recognize the occurrence itself is considerably more unordinary.
China is the North's fundamental political partner and biggest exchanging accomplice.
"[Mr Kim] said that the sudden mischance conveyed intense distress to his heart," the authority KCNA news organization revealed.
"He couldn't control his anguish at the prospect of the dispossessed families who lost their blood relatives."
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Mr Kim communicated his 'distress' to Chinese minister Li Jinjun (second R)
The North Korean pioneer was imagined going to harmed travelers in clinic. The report said he "actually found out about the treatment".
He additionally went to the Chinese international safe haven in Pyongyang, where he met the Chinese minister to North Korea Li Jinjun and "communicated his ardent sympathies and sensitivity."
China and North Korea have been long-term partners. Mr Kim's quick visit to the harmed individuals - and its revealing - is probably going to be found to a limited extent as a method for securing his picture among the Chinese populace.
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Chinese travelers make up an expected 80% of outside voyagers to North Korea - giving a critical wellspring of money for Pyongyang.
Mr Kim recently went to Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, his initially known outside trek since he took office in 2011.
China is in charge of for all intents and purposes all of North Korea's nourishment and fuel help and by numerous measures, can be viewed as its most essential accomplice.
North Korea as of late reported it was stopping all atomic and rocket tests, as it develops to significant summit with the pioneers of South Korea and the US.
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