North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his deep apologies to China after a bus crash in his isolated country killed 32 Chinese tourists, state media said on Thursday. China is North Korea’s most important economic and diplomatic backer, despite Beijing’s anger at Pyongyang’s repeated
BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his deep apologies to China after a bus crash in his isolated country killed 32 Chinese tourists, state media said on Thursday.
China is North Korea’s most important economic and diplomatic backer, despite Beijing’s anger at Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear and missile tests and support for strong United Nations sanctions against North Korea.
The tourists and four North Koreans were killed when a bus crashed off a bridge in North Korea late on Sunday, leaving two Chinese nationals in critical condition.
On Thursday, Chinese state television broadcast images of Kim seeing off the bodies as they were loaded onto a train for the journey home.
The North Korean people were “overcome with sorrow,” Kim told President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders.
