Nations: N. Korea Cloud Isn&#39;t Nuke Blast
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SEOUL, South Korea Sept. 12, 2004 - A huge mushroom cloud that reportedly billowed up from North Korea was not caused by a nuclear explosion, South Korean and US officials said Sunday, but they said the cause was a mystery.
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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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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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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."
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North Korea believes Washington has atomic weapons deployed in South Korea and it will not halt its nuclear program as long as this threat persists, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a North Korean source as saying on Thursday.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted Friday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail U.S.-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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SEOUL, South Korea - An explosion that shot a 2-mile-wide mushroom cloud into the sky was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, North Korea said Monday, and it invited a British diplomat to visit the site.    Experts from the United States and elsewhere say they don't believe Thursday's blast near the Chinese border was a nuclear test...
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South Korea said on Friday it did not expect a shock declaration that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to upset international efforts to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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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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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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It is increasingly apparent North Korea does not intend to give up its aspirations for nuclear arms regardless of concessions by the United States, South Korea and Japan.
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A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson clearly said Saturday that North Korea had never insisted on direct talks between the US and North Korea instead of the six-party talks in order to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, and the key to
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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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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - A mushroom-shaped cloud was seen in North Korea last Thursday following a large explosion, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.
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Pyongyang will not meet target for disabling key reactor and revealing nuclear programmes, diplomats say
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bones handed over then were not, as Pyongyang claimed, those of the abducted Japanese citizens. &quot;It (North Korea) no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter-governmental contact is meaningful,&quot; he added.
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North Korea will not dismantle its nuclear programs or improve ties with South Korea until questions about the South's nuclear experiments are clearly answered, Pyongyang said on Sunday.