Report: N.Korea Says Explosion Was Planned
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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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Pyongyang says the huge explosion last week was to demolish a mountain for a hydro-electric project.
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A government minister, now in Pyongyang, said he will seek an explanation from his North Korean hosts of a reported blast in the north of the country three days ago.
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An explosion last week in North Korea created a mushroom cloud as wide as 4 kilometers, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing unidentified diplomats.
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A senior North Korean official denied reports that the secretive communist state was preparing a missile launch, saying they were pure speculation, Japan&#39;s Kyodo news agency reported today.
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SEOUL, South Korea Sept. 12, 2004 - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge column of smoke into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.
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SEOULâA 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, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency reported today.
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Communist North Korea's claim that a huge and mysterious explosion was caused by a civil engineering project might be true, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.
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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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Diplomats who visited the scene of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said the site was a hydroelectric construction project, and one envoy said more blasts were planned, Kyodo news agency reported.
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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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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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North Korea said Monday last week's explosion in its remote northeast was part of a hydro-electric project, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as saying.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- North Korea said yesterday an explosion that raised a huge mushroom cloud last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project and the reclusive government invited a British diplomat to visit the site to
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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 on Friday.
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A cloud of confusion surrounded a widely  reported explosion in North Korea last week with South Korea  saying on Friday its latest assessment was that no blast at all  occurred at the suspected site.
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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.