KCNA said the accident had occurred last Tuesday and was the result of "irresponsible" supervision by officials in charge of the construction.
An "intensive" emergency rescue effort had been carried out to rescue survivors and treat the wounded, it said.
The KCNA did not provide a death toll or elaborate on the cause of the collapse, but said it had left Pyongyang citizens "greatly shocked".
The agency carried lengthy public apologies by senior officials including the Minister of People's Security, Choe Pu-Il.
(Choe) repented of himself, saying that he failed to find out factors that can put at risk the lives and properties of the people and to take thorough-going measures, thereby causing an unimaginable accident," it said.
"Unimaginable"? Hardly. It's simply the laws of physics at work.
What's "unimaginable" are the lame excuses that public officials come up with when "'irresponsible' supervision by officials in charge of the construction" result in such disasters, and the naivete of the news media (print, TV, radio, internet) and the general public.
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