Huge blast was mountain demolition, says North
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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 - A large explosion occurred in North Korea&#39;s northernmost inland province of Yanggang on Thursday, which was the 56th anniversary of the country&#39;s founding, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday.
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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 Tuesday.
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The explosion occurred during a police raid. It destroyed a house believed to have been used by foreign fighters, and flattened several nearby buildings.
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An explosives-laden truck demolished dozens of fragile houses and shops yesterday, causing one of the highest tolls from a single blast.
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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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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.
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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 reported on Sunday.
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A huge explosion in North Korea last week may have been due to a combination of demolition work for a power plant and atmospheric clouds, South Korea's spy agency said on Wednesday.
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North Korea says last week&#39;s massive explosion in a remote area of the country&#39;s north was the result of deliberate demolition work.
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North Korea said Monday last week's  explosion in a remote northern area was part of a  hydro-electric project, the BBC quoted the North's foreign  minister as telling a visiting British official.
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A blast destroyed a three-storey shopping centre in Afghanistan's northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, wounding at least 23 people, a doctor and witnesses said.
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A bomb blast in northern Afghanistan killed a Finnish soldier and an Afghan civilian on Wednesday, while a suicide attacker in the capital killed two people, including a policeman, officials said.The blast in the northern city of Maymana just 100 yards outside a Norwegian-led base killed a Finnish soldier and slightly wounded two Norwegian officers, the Norwegian military in Oslo said.A civilian was also wounded in the blast, said provincial police chief Khalil Ziyaeehe.Northern Afghanistan is relatively calm compared with the country's south and east, but the region has seen an increasing number of attacks in recent weeks. A suicide bomber in the northern city of Kunduz on Saturday killed 10 people, including three German soldiers who also had been walking through a market place. Read more
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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.
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A large explosion rocked the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on the anniversary of the 1948 foundation of the communist regime, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
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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 Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified source in Beijing, said the explosion happened Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China...
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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.