Huge explosion in North Korea last week: report
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A huge explosion rocked North Korea's northern inland province of Ryanggang last week, triggering a mushroom-shaped cloud near the country's secret underground military base, South Korean news agency Yonhap said.
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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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The United States said on Tuesday that last week&#39;s blast in North Korea that stirred fears of a nuclear explosion might have been demolition work for a power project, as Pyongyang has asserted.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud 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...
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Communist North Korea's claim that a huge and mysterious explosion was caused by a civil engineering project might be true, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.    Citing an unidentified source in Beijing, Yonhap said the explosion happened on Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China...
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SEOUL, South Korea  - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea on an important anniversary of the communist regime, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
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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.
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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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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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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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BEIJING - The British and German ambassadors to North Korea on Thursday travelled with other foreign diplomats from Pyongyang to the site of a huge explosion close to North Korea&#39;s border with China, British officials 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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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 claimed yesterday that a huge explosion in the north-east of the country last week was the controlled demolition of a mountain to make way for a hydroelectric dam - not, as feared, a nuclear weapons test.
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SEOUL, South Korea Sept. 12, 2004 - 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.
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BEIJING - 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.    The extremely secretive North allowed diplomats from seven countries to the site to prove its contention that the Sept...