US Officials Don&#39;t Believe N.Korean Blast Nuclear-related
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As questions emerge over whether a large explosion last week in North Korea was nuclear-related, top US officials do not think it was a nuclear test.
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South Korea&#39;s top nuclear negotiator says he does not see the standoff over North Korea&#39;s nuclear program being resolved before the US presidential election in November.
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The United States does not pose a  threat to North Korea and has no intention of invading, a U.S.  official said Tuesday, urging Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear  ambitions in exchange for possible security assurances.
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North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korea's unification minister said on Monday.
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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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&quot;DON&#39;T have a reaction, I&#39;ll leave it to the analysts,&quot; responded US State Department official Adam Ereli to questions about the significance of reports that North Korea&#39;s media had stopped calling Kim Jong-il &quot;Dear Leader&quot;.
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God knows if they&#39;re telling the truth, I wouldn&#39;t say their credibility is any too high. But I really don&#39;t think they&#39;d lie about this given the stakes: North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from
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WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that the United States did not know what caused a huge mysterious blast in North Korea last week but it was not a nuclear test.
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The United States said that its warnings to North Korea against conducting a nuclear weapons test were &quot;not a lethal threat&quot; and denied seeking the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang.
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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 Korean officials on Tuesday dismissed as propaganda a top North Korean official&#39;s claims that Pyongyang had made nuclear weapons from spent plutonium fuel rods, news reports said.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - North Korea's declaration  that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear  weapons state, South Korea's unification minister said on  Monday, clearly skeptical about the veracity and timing of  Pyongyang's statement.
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Differences between the US and South Korea and China over nuclear talks with North Korea are exaggerated, the US State Department said.
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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.
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ASHINGTON, Sept. 12 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today that a huge explosion that took place Thursday on North Korea&#39;s border with China was likely &quot;not any kind of nuclear event,&quot; but he said
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The remains North Korea gave Japanese officials last month are not those of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota as Pyongyang had claimed, government officials said Wednesday.
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South Korea said Friday that a massive explosion previously reported to have created a mushroom cloud in North Korea did not take place in the area that was originally pinpointed.