UK demands N Korea explain blast
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Britain demands an explanation from North Korea after reports of a blast that left a mushroom shaped cloud.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A huge cloud that billowed up from North Korea several days ago was an intentional part of a planned demolition for a hydroelectric project, the BBC quoted the country's foreign minister as saying Monday.    Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun was responding to a request for information from British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell, who is visiting Pyongyang, the British Broadcasting Corp...
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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...
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BEIJING - Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed dozens of workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said Friday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.    South Korea, meanwhile, said a mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the Sept...
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A huge explosion in North Korea last week  was a deliberate blast to pave the way for a hydro-electric  dam, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as telling a  visiting British official Monday.
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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 explosion rocked North Korea last week but U.S. and South Korean officials said on Sunday it was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test despite the appearance of a "peculiar cloud" over the area.
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BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan pressed North Korea on Sunday to provide fuller accounts of 10 Japanese who Tokyo says were abducted by Pyongyang agents, but the North did not provide new information as they wrapped up two days of talks, Japan&#39;s chief delegate said
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Diplomats who visited the scene of a  mysterious explosion in North Korea said the site was a  hydroelectric construction project, and one envoy said more  blasts were planned, Kyodo news agency reported.
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A huge explosion rocked an area in North  Korea near the border with China three days ago and appeared to  be much bigger than a train blast that killed 170 people in  April, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
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An blast last week in North Korea created a mushroom cloud with a radius as wide as 4 kilometers, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing unidentified diplomats.
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A cloud of confusion surrounded a widely  reported explosion in North Korea last week with South Korea  saying on Friday its latest assessment was that no blast at all  occurred at the suspected site.
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A trip by diplomats to the site of a mysterious blast in North Korea has been delayed for logistical reasons, Western diplomats based in Pyongyang said on Wednesday.
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Intelligence analysis of a massive explosion in North Koreaâs Ryanggang Province on Sept. 9 corroborates with Pyongyangâs explanation that it was a controlled blast to clear rock, according to South Korean and US officials.
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A huge explosion rocked an area in North  Korea near the border with China three days ago and the  accident appears to be much worse than a train blast that  killed at least 170 people in April, Yonhap news agency  reported on Sunday.
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South Korea is seeking independent verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a hydroelectric scheme, Seoul's defense minister said on Tuesday.
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A huge explosion rocked North Korea near the border with China three days ago, producing a mushroom cloud that sparked speculation that Pyongyang might have tested an atomic weapon, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.