Nations: N. Korea Cloud Isn't Nuke Blast
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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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South Korea Monday shrugged off North  Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear  materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the  mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.
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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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SEOUL, South Korea - 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&#39;s nuclear programs.
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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.
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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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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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TOKYO, Jan. 1 -- North Korea failed to fulfill its October promise to declare all its nuclear programs by the end of 2007 -- and the United States did not make a big deal out of it.
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A huge explosion has reportedly occurred in North Korea, but South Korean and US officials maintain it was not a nuclear test. The explosion, which produced a mushroom
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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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Officials in South Korea continued Friday to try to assure the world that the nation had no nuclear arms program, with its top nuclear researcher saying government scientists
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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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PYONGYANG (KCNA-Yonhap) - North Korea said on Monday it will never abandon its nuclear weapons program, taking issue with a series of nuclear-material experiments conducted in South Korea in the past.
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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 denied harboring any nuclear weapons ambitions Friday, saying a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists shouldn't derail U.S.-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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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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South Korea Monday shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.