SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a typhoon-hit mining district, state television reported Wednesday, promising to rebuild the town and making a rare public acknowledgment of his government's failings.
"We ought to feel deeply responsible for not knowing that people were suffering in such an unfit environment," Kim said in South Hamgyong, known for its zinc deposits. He lamented that the clusters of homes on the mountainside "are the same as they were half a century ago," according to the Korean Central News Agency.
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