N. Korea Says Explosion Was Planned
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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
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A senior North Korean official dismissed reports that the secretive country was preparing a missile launch, calling them speculation, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
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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 Tuesday.
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A huge explosion rocked North Korea near  the border with China three days ago, producing a mushroom  cloud that sparked speculation that Pyongyang might have tested  an atomic weapon, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
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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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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.
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A huge explosion rocked North Korea's northern inland province of Ryanggang last week, triggering a mushroom-shaped cloud near the country's secret underground military base, South Korean news agency Yonhap said.
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An blast last week in North Korea created a mushroom cloud with a radius as wide as 4 kilometers, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing unidentified diplomats.
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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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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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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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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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_ North Korea said Monday that a huge cloud caused by an explosion several days ago 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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The United States said on Tuesday that last week&#39;s blast in North Korea that stirred fears of a nuclear explosion might have been demolition work for a power project, as Pyongyang has asserted.
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North Korean officials have announced that a huge explosion in its remote Northeast was part of a hydroelectric project. Mystery surrounded the blast in the mountainous province of Yanggang and fears grew
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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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South Korea is seeking independent  verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last  week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a  hydroelectric scheme, Seoul's defense minister said on Tuesday.