Pohj.-Koreassa dyinpommi räjähtänytkö??

North Korea Explosion Produced Mushroom Cloud, Yonhap Says

Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- An explosion last week in North Korea produced a mushroom cloud with a radius as wide as 4 kilometers, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said, citing unidentified diplomats.

The blast Thursday in Kimhyongjik-gun in Ryanggang province close to the Chinese border in a heavily militarized area was on North Korea's founding day, Yonhap said in its English-language service, citing diplomats in Seoul. The blast probably wasn't a nuclear weapons test, Yonhap said, citing an unidentified U.S. diplomat in Washington.

Rail cars carrying inflammable cargo exploded in North Korea in April in the city of Ryongchon 15 kilometers (10 miles) from China. That blast killed 154 people, injured 1,300 others and flattened about 1,800 homes. Thursday's explosion appeared to be larger than the one in April, Yonhap said, citing a source in the Chinese capital of Beijing.

``I received reports that there were signs of an explosion in North Korea,'' South Korea's Unification Minister Chung Dong Young said at a briefing today in Seoul. ``We are trying to gather more information.''

The Yonhap report comes amid continued tension over North Korea's refusal to abandon its nuclear weapons program. The U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia are seek a fourth round of talks with the communist nation in a bid to persuade North Korea to abandon any bid to build nuclear bombs.

Col. Victor Warzinski, the U.S. military spokesman in Japan, said he was aware of press reports about the explosion and declined to comment on them. U.S. Embassy spokespersons in Seoul were not immediately available for comment.

``We are still trying to find out about this,'' Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Akira Chiba, said in Tokyo when asked about the report.

North Korea yesterday signaled it may delay further talks to discuss giving up nuclear weapons after South Korea revealed it enriched small amounts of uranium in tests in 2000 and conducted plutonium experiments in the 1980s.

South Korea said last week that it enriched 0.2 gram of uranium in experiments for nuclear-energy research in the first two months of 2000 following a test on plutonium in 1982. Those radioactive materials are two key ingredients for nuclear

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Last Updated: September 12, 2004 01:02 EDT

Ohj-Koreassa ydinpommijysähdys?
Suomi vaikenee taas kirjoitti 10:02    ilmianna asiaton viesti

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Last Updated: Sunday, 12 September, 2004, 05:41 GMT 06:41 UK
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Big blast reported in North Korea
A big explosion rocked a northern province of North Korea near the border with China last week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported.

The blast is said to have happened last Thursday, as North Korea marked the 56th anniversary of its founding.

Yonhap quoted a diplomatic source in Seoul as saying a large mushroom cloud was spotted in Yanggang province.

South Korea's Unification Minister has reportedly played down the possibility that it was a nuclear weapons test.

Diplomatic officials in Washington are also quoted as saying the nature of the blast is unclear.

The diplomatic source in Seoul said the mushroom cloud, with a radius of up to four kms (2.5 miles), was spotted in Yanggang province's Kimhyungjik county.

The area is mountainous and thinly-populated, and home to a major military base, according to reports.

A crater caused by the blast could be seen from a satellite, an unnamed official in Beijing was quoted by Yonhap as saying.

'Rumours'

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young - Seoul's top negotiator with North Korea - said South Korea was trying to get confirmation of the explosion and its effects.

"We have received an unsubstantiated report on traces of an explosion in North Korea," he told reporters.

A spokesman for South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun told Reuters news agency it "appears to be on the level of rumours at this point".

The BBC's Charles Scanlon in Seoul says the nervousness follows recent reports from Washington warning North Korea could be preparing a nuclear test.

North Korea claims to have developed what it calls a nuclear deterrent, and threatened several times to test a device.

It is little surprise that the news should come late and leak out piecemeal from North Korea, one of the world's most secretive societies, says our correspondent.

In April, an explosion at a railway station in North Korea killed more than 150 people - but Pyongyang only admitted the incident three days later.

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Mutta onko tuo niin ihmeellistä, että ydinkokeita tehdään?

Hajaantukaa, kyseessä on varmaankin metsäpalo. Älkää dramatisoiko luonnollista tapahtumaa.

"The Yonhap news agency carried conflicting reports from unidentified sources, with one in Washington saying the incident could be related to a natural disaster such as a forest fire."

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olisi aikamoinen sensaatio, jos räjähdys osoittautuu ydinpommiksi.
Joko Venäjältä, Kiinasta tai USA:lta harhautunut tai P-Korean oma.
Varsinkin jos USA:lta, niin P-Korea hyökkää E-Koreaan.

Onko netissä kuvia tosta?

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