Powell: N. Korea Blast Not Nuclear Event
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The United States does not believe that a large explosion in North Korea was related to the communist country&#39;s suspected nuclear weapons program, President Bush&#39;s foreign policy advisers said Sunday.
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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 huge blast three days ago in North Korea was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test, South Korea's unification minister said on Sunday.
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SEOUL, South Korea - 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, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a plume of smoke more than two miles wide into the air on an important anniversary of the 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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The United States will not sweeten its aid-for-disarmament offer to North Korea in a bid to end the Stalinist state&#39;s nuclear weapons drive, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned North Korea today against carrying out any new missile tests, saying Washington would not be intimidated into changing its policy towards the Stalinist state.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that the United States would not provide &quot;up-front&quot; benefits to North Korea if it agreed to dismantle its nuclear programs, rejecting
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BEIJING - A diplomat who visited the site of a huge explosion in North Korea said Friday he saw no evidence it was caused by a nuclear test, and South Korean officials said mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the blast may have instead been a natural cloud formation.    The extremely secretive North allowed diplomats from seven countries to the site to prove its contention that the Sept...
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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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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has ended his tour of East Asia by urging North Korea to resume nuclear talks. Speaking in Seoul, Mr Powell said Pyongyang&#39;s ongoing nuclear programme was preventing the US from helping ordinary North Korean people.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has been quoted as saying there is no comparison with the secret nuclear experiments previously carried out by South Korea and ongoing atomic programmes in North Korea and Iran.
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TOKYO -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday rejected demands by North Korea of a US ''reward&quot; before the communist country would agree to resume multinational talks about its nuclear weapons programs.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed North Korea on Sunday to return to nuclear disarmament talks even as he branded the communist country a "terrorist state" that has "no respect for human rights."
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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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South Korea&#39;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 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.