North Korea Blast Wasn&#39;t Nuclear, Diplomat Says After Visiting ...
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Video of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion had occurred last week showed dozens of workers swarming around a construction site resembling a large
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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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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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British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said Thursday that British ambassador to the Democratic People&#39;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has visited the site of a huge explosion that raised fears of a nuclear weapons test.
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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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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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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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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Sunday that an explosion detected early this month over North Korea was probably not a nuclear blast but it could not be ruled out.
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The United States said that its warnings to North Korea against conducting a nuclear weapons test were &quot;not a lethal threat&quot; and denied seeking the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang.
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A huge mushroom cloud that reportedly billowed up from North Korea was not caused by a nuclear explosion, South Korean and U.S. officials said Sunday, but they said the cause was a mystery.
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SEOUL -- 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 yesterday, and it invited a British diplomat to visit the site.
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BEIJING - Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed dozens of workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said Friday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.    South Korea, meanwhile, said a mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the Sept...
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A top North Korean diplomat said his reclusive state was now a nuclear nation not to be trifled with as he arrived in Beijing for crunch meetings on Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Sunday he does not believe North Korea set off a nuclear blast earlier this month, but is not "100 percent sure."
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BEIJING - Sweden&#39;s ambassador to North Korea said Friday that diplomats who visited what North Korean officials claimed was the source of a huge explosion saw no evidence to support fears it might have been caused by a nuclear blast.
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A trip by diplomats to the site of a  mysterious blast in North Korea has been delayed for logistical  reasons, Western diplomats based in Pyongyang said on  Wednesday.
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North Korea on Monday reportedly told a visiting British diplomat in Pyongyang that a billowing cloud of smoke caused by an explosion last week was the planned