S.Korea Says There Was No Big Blast in N.Korea
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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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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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He said Friday that South Korea's recently disclosed work with uranium and plutonium did not appear to be part of a weapons program, describing it as "simply two scientific experiments on a small scale."
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South Korea said on Wednesday it saw no signs that North Korea has begun shutting the reactor at the heart of its nuclear weapons ambitions, as diplomats headed to Beijing to push forward a nascent disarmament deal.
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The South Korean government says its scientists were not trying to build a nuclear bomb when they enriched a small amount of uranium four years ago.
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A large cloud that appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago was not the result of a nuclear explosion, according to a US official.
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South Korea declared Saturday it has no plans to develop or possess nuclear weapons, but said it would pursue scientific atomic research transparently in cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
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South Korea has shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South&#39;s experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North&#39;s return to atomic arms talks.
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North Korea has shown no signs of  shutting down its main nuclear reactor and the source of its  weapons-grade plutonium since last month&#39;s deal calling for it  to be closed, South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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South Korea sees no need to rush into a  further round of talks on the North's nuclear weapons  ambitions, President Roh Moo-hyun said on Wednesday.
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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 Korea now believes that a mushroom cloud previously thought to be from a massive explosion in North Korea was actually a natural occurence and there was no blast, officials said Friday.
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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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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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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.
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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."