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To: LindyBill who started this subject9/12/2004 4:01:35 PM
From: DMaA   of 793838
 
North Korea blows up again:

Powell Says N. Korea Blast Not Nuclear


Sep 12, 12:47 PM (ET)

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A huge explosion in the northern part of North Korea sent a plume of smoke more than two miles wide into the air on an important anniversary of the secretive 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.

"There was no indication that was a nuclear event of any kind. Exactly what it was, we're not sure," Powell said on ABC's "This Week."

China's government, which has the closest relations with North Korea, had no immediate comment about the reported explosion.

The Yonhap news agency said the blast Thursday was more powerful than the April 22 explosion that killed 160 people and injured an estimated 1,300 at a railway station in North Korea. That explosion was believed caused by a train laden with oil and chemicals hitting power lines.

apnews.myway.com

In a story published before Yonhap's report, The New York
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