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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&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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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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A huge explosion rocked North Korea last  week but U.S. and South Korean officials said on Sunday it was  unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test despite the  appearance of a "peculiar cloud" over the area.
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Officials disputed the notion that such a large quantity of explosives could have been moved without notice by the U.S. military.
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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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The United States does not believe that a large explosion in North Korea was related to the communist country's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Bush's foreign policy advisers said Sunday.
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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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BEIJING Diplomats escorted by North Korean officials to what they said was the site of a huge explosion last week saw no evidence that it was nuclear, Sweden&#39;s ambassador to North Korea said on Friday, but South Korea cast doubt on the North&#39;s explanation
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The United States has denied claims from Pyongyang that North Korea has been taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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A senior North Korean official denied a report that Pyongyang was giving nuclear expertise to Syria, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
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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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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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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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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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The United States on Monday dismissed as inappropriate North Korea&#39;s unusually strong personal attacks on President George W. Bush, but remained confident Pyongyang would attend talks to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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A large cloud appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago, but a US official told CNN it is &quot;no big deal&quot; and not the result of a nuclear explosion.