BEIJING, May 1 Kyodo North Korea'...

BEIJING, May 1 Kyodo

North Korea's official Korean Central moderns Agency said Friday that reportage by dint of some of the U.S. and southerly Korean media on the April 22 blast at Ryongchon railway station is biased, saying their coverage are intended to form humanitarian efforts by the international community to assist North Korea.

Reports similar as those saying North Korea is ''indifferent to treating the wounded'' and has ''sealed against the scene of accident to stop journalists'' are against humanitarian principles, the KCNA said.

The KCNA also criticized remarks on the chief editor of the southward Korean conservative monthly ''Wolgan Joson'' that said southern Korea's efforts to provide aid to the North was ''little short of bribing.''

''Such behaviors be worthy of worldwide denunciation even in view of elementary moral ethics,'' the KCNA said.

At least 161 the public including about 70 elementary institute children, were killed and more than 1300 injured in the blast that occurr after pair train cars carrying ammonium nitrate explod in the North Korean city.

The blast in Ryongchon about 20 kilometers from the Chinese border, annihilateed 1,850 houses and damaged another 3050

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