S.Korea Says There Was No Big Blast in N.Korea
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South Korea's latest assessment of a  widely reported explosion in North Korea last week is that  there was no blast at all at the suspected site, a vice  minister said Friday.
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A huge explosion rocked North Korea last week but U.S. and South Korean officials said on Sunday it was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test despite the appearance of a "peculiar cloud" over the area.
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South Korea on Tuesday downplayed the first assessment by the UNâs nuclear watchdog on alleged mistakes in its nuclear activities over the past two decades, dismissing the expression of ``serious
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SEOUL -- Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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South Korea said Friday that a massive explosion previously reported to have created a mushroom cloud in North Korea did not take place in the area that was originally pinpointed.
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A large cloud appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago, but a US official told CNN it is &quot;no big deal&quot; and not the result of a nuclear explosion.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States believes a recent explosion in North Korea was, in his words, not a nuclear event.
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North Korea fired just one, not several, short-range missile off its east coast on Friday and may follow up with the launch of another from its west, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted intelligence sources as saying on Saturday.
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TOKYO The operators of a Japanese nuclear plant say there was no evidence of danger at the plant before a deadly explosion this month.
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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 U.N. nuclear watchdog confirmed in a  confidential report on Thursday that South Korea enriched a  tiny amount of uranium in 2000 to a level close to what would  be useable in an atomic weapon.
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SEOUL, South Korea/Washington  - A huge explosion  rocked North Korea last week but U.S. and South Korean  officials said Sunday it was unlikely to have been a nuclear  weapons test despite the appearance of a "peculiar cloud" over  the area.
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North Korea's declaration that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons state, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said on Monday.
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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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While the world frets over whether North Korea will conduct a nuclear test, the reclusive state's media on Sunday ignored the topic, focusing instead on ecstatic praise of their leader on the anniversary of his rise to power.
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Astana - Hanoi, October 11 KAZINFORM -- President Roh Moo-hyun said Monday he did not expect North Korea to go to extremes over the issue of its nuclear weapons development 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.