North Korea&#39;s claim about mysterious blast might be true: Seoul
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SEOUL : Communist North Korea&#39;s claim that a huge and mysterious explosion was caused by a civil engineering project might be true, South Korea&#39;s intelligence agency has said.
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South Korea's intelligence agency said that North Korea may have built nuclear bombs but lacked the technical know-how to mount them on missiles.
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Diplomats who visited the scene of a  mysterious explosion in North Korea said the site was a  hydroelectric construction project where they were told two  explosions had been conducted, Kyodo news agency reported.
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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...
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WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that the United States did not know what caused a huge mysterious blast in North Korea last week but it was not a nuclear test.
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South Korean officials said on Sunday that a massive explosion generating a huge cloud of smoke on North Korea's northern border with China on Sept. 9 was an unspecified accident and apparently not a much-feared nuclear test.
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Intelligence reports of a massive explosion accompanied by a mushroom-shaped cloud over North Koreaâs Kimhyongjik county were a false alarm, South Korean officials concluded Friday.
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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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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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BEIJING -- Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said yesterday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.
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SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean government said it was looking into a report Sunday of a large explosion in the northern part of North Korea that left a crater more than two miles wide.    The explosion happened at 11 a.m...
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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 Pyongyang might have tested an atomic weapon, Yonhap news agency reports.
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SEOUL, South Korea Sept. 13, 2004 - North Korea said Monday that the large explosion near its border with China several days ago was a &quot;deliberate detonation of a mountain&quot; as part of a hydroelectric project, the BBC reported.
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An accident at an underground munitions depot or a weapons factory was the likely cause of a huge explosion in North Korea last week, and there were possibly two blasts, South Korean media reports said on Monday.
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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, government officials said on Tuesday.
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Foreign diplomats taken to the scene of a mysterious blast in North Korea were shown a &quot;very, very large&quot; construction site where they were told two explosions were conducted, diplomats said.
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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.