Major blast occurred in N Korea on Thurs: Yonhap
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SEOUL - A large explosion occurred in North Korea&#39;s northernmost inland province of Yanggang on Thursday, which was the 56th anniversary of the country&#39;s founding, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday.
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North Korea said Monday last week&#39;s explosion in a remote northern area was part of a hydro-electric project, the BBC quoted the North&#39;s foreign minister as telling a visiting British official.
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On September 11, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a huge blast and a 2.5 mile diameter mushroom cloud in North Korea 6 miles southwest of Yongjori Missile Base...on Thursday.
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In the first remarks to the outside world concerning last Thursday&#39;s mysterious explosion, North Korea reportedly has said the blast was part of a construction project.
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A huge explosion in North Korea last week  was a deliberate blast to pave the way for a hydro-electric  dam, Pyongyang said Monday.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge column of smoke into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.    The South Korean government said it was trying to confirm the report of an explosion at 11 a.m...
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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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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 claimed yesterday that a huge explosion in the north-east of the country last week was the controlled demolition of a mountain to make way for a hydroelectric dam - not, as feared, a nuclear weapons test.
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A huge explosion in North Korea last week  was a deliberate blast to pave the way for a hydro-electric  dam, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as telling a  visiting British official Monday.
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SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean government said it was looking into a report Sunday of a large explosion in the northern part of North Korea that left a crater more than two miles wide.    The explosion happened at 11 a.m...
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There are reports that a massive explosion three days ago in North Korea&#39;s northern-most inland province of Yanggang, created a huge mushroom-shaped cloud.