Washington, Seoul seek more details on N. Korea blast
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SEOULâA 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, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency reported today.
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In the first remarks to the outside world concerning last Thursday&#39;s mysterious explosion, North Korea reportedly has said the blast was part of a construction project.
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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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The United States does not believe that a large explosion in North Korea was related to the communist country's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Bush's foreign policy advisers said Sunday.
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A diplomat who visited the site of a huge explosion in North Korea said Friday he saw no evidence it was caused by a nuclear test, and South Korean officials said mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the blast may have instead been a natural cloud formation.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge column of smoke into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.    The South Korean government said it was trying to confirm the report of an explosion at 11 a.m...
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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, Pyongyang said Monday. Washington and Seoul have said the explosion was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test.
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South Korean officials said Tuesday they were trying to verify North Korea's claim that a huge explosion last week was caused by the demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
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The United States and South Korea have played down suggestions that a massive explosion in North Korea last week was caused by a nuclear device.
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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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Eight foreign diplomats in North Korea have been given permission to visit the site of a mysterious blast Thursday, Japan&#39;s Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday.
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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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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Monday that the large explosion near its border with China several days ago was a "deliberate detonation of a mountain" as part of a hydroelectric project, the BBC reported.    The reclusive communist regime responded to a request for information from British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell, who is visiting Pyongyang, the British Broadcasting Corp...
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The Bush administration has received recent intelligence reports that some experts believe could indicate North Korea is preparing to conduct its first nuclear weapons test explosion, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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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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Intelligence officials in South Korea say the mysterious blast in North Korea may have been from a hydro-electric dam project, as Pyongyang claims.
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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.