S.Korea Says There Was No Big Blast in N.Korea
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South Korea&#39;s latest assessment of a widely reported explosion in North Korea last week is that there was no blast at all at the suspected site, a vice minister said on Friday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States believes a recent explosion in North Korea was, in his words, not a nuclear event.
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explosion in North Korea wasn&#39;ta nuclear bomb doesn&#39;t mean the world community should ignore it. Secretary of State Colin Powell said evidence supports North Korea&#39;s statement that the blast was to remove part of a mountain for a hydroelectric.
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A large cloud appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago, but a US official told CNN it is &quot;no big deal&quot; and not the result of a nuclear explosion.
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A group of diplomats who visited the scene of last week&#39;s mysterious explosion in North Korea say it was not caused by the testing of a nuclear device.
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WASHINGTON: The United States said on Tuesday a blast in North Korea last week that stirred fears of a nuclear explosion might have been demolition work for a power project, as Pyongyang has asserted.
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A huge blast three days ago in North Korea was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test, South Korea's unification minister said on Sunday.
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SEOUL: South Korea said Friday it was satisfied with a UN atomic energy agency report which showed that unauthorised nuclear experiments by government scientists went further than previously thought.
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South Korea has admitted that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to a level that several Vienna diplomats said was almost pure enough for an atomic bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Thursday.
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The United States on Thursday played down an earlier warning to North Korea over that country's plans for a nuclear test, saying it was not threatening Pyongyang with "lethal" action.
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The United States does not believe North Korea has conducted nuclear tests, but it is unclear whether a reported blast there three days ago showed
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South Korea Monday shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.
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The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said in Seoul Wednesday that South Korea&#39;s past nuclear experiments did not violate international agreements.
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SEOUL -- Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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North Korea fired several short-range missiles on Friday, but the United States and its Asian allies said the launches were part of normal military drills and would not affect talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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North Korea's explanation that a  blast last week was demolition work for a power project rather  than a nuclear explosion squared with what Washington saw,  Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a plume of smoke more than two miles wide into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the explosion Thursday was not a nuclear test but that it was not known yet what caused it...