Beijing — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his "bitter sorrow" after dozens of Chinese tourists were killed when a bus they were travelling in plunged off a bridge. Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died in the accident south of the capital Pyongyang Sunday night, Chinese officials and state media said. Two other Chinese nationals were injured. In a rare admission of negative news from North Korea’s tightly controlled propaganda network, the state-run KCNA news agency ran a report early on Tuesday saying Kim met personally with the Chinese ambassador in Pyongyang and later visited crash survivors in hospital. "He [Kim] said that the unexpected accident brought bitter sorrow to his heart and that he couldn’t control his grief at the thought of the bereaved families who lost their blood relatives," KCNA reported. The agency quoted the North Korean leader as saying his people "take the tragic accident as their own misfortune". Xinhua news agency reported that ...
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