Powell Says N. Korea Blast Not Nuclear
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SEOUL, South Korea - A huge explosion in the northern part of North Korea sent a plume of smoke more than two miles wide into the air on an important anniversary of the secretive 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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Secretary of State Colin Powell on Saturday rejected demands by North Korea of a US &quot;reward&quot; before the communist country would agree to resume multinational talks about its nuclear weapons programs.
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explosion in North Korea wasn&#39;ta nuclear bomb doesn&#39;t mean the world community should ignore it. Secretary of State Colin Powell said evidence supports North Korea&#39;s statement that the blast was to remove part of a mountain for a hydroelectric.
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Diplomats who visited what North Korea claimed was the site of a huge explosion found no sign it was nuclear, a Swedish ambassador said, while South Korea said a mushroom-shaped cloud in the
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The United States will not accept North Korean demands as &quot;conditions&quot; for the resumption of stalled talks on resolving the Korean nuclear deadlock but Pyongyang is free to raise them if it returns to the table, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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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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Calling it a matter of urgency, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday North Korea should resume participation in nuclear disarmament talks and set aside its concerns about new "hostile acts" by the United States against the communist government.
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North Korea's foreign minister said that a huge explosion in the country's remote interior that triggered fears of a nuclear test was a harmless demolition blast linked to a hydro-electric power project.
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United States Secretary of State Colin Powell said on October 21, âWe will not enter direct negotiationsâ with North Korea regarding the nuclear programs and added, âNo remuneration in any form will be given until the US is positive that North Korea
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Secretary of State Colin Powell has  rejected the notion that divisions in the Bush administration  had hindered Washington's ability to roll back North Korea's  nuclear program.
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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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US Secretary of State Colin Powell urged North Korea yesterday to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks if it wants international aid, while South Korea ended a high alert triggered by holes cut into a border fence.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Saturday rejected North Korea&#39;s latest demand that the United States drop its &quot;hostile&quot; policy toward that nation and agree to other
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SEOUL, South Korea - An explosion that shot a 2-mile-wide mushroom cloud into the sky was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, North Korea said Monday, and it invited a British diplomat to visit the site.    Experts from the United States and elsewhere say they don't believe Thursday's blast near the Chinese border was a nuclear test...
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Secretary of State Colin Powell is acknowledging that U.S. intelligence experts do not know how far along North Korea's nuclear weapons program is and may not be able to find out.
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The United States will not sweeten its aid-for-disarmament offer to North Korea in a bid to end the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons drive, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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The Bush administration said Tuesday that North Korea&#039;s firing of a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan was a provocation, but not an immediate threat to the United States.