Report: Large Explosion in North Korea
VOA News
12 Sep 2004, 04:29 UTC
A South Korean news report says a large explosion rocked North Korea's northernmost inland province of Yanggang last Thursday, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air.
The Yonhap news agency says the blast took place in Kimhyungjik county, which borders China, on September 9, the 56th anniversary of North Korea's founding.
Yonhap cited an unidentified source in Beijing as saying damage was large enough to have been seen from a satellite.
The agency quotes a diplomatic source in Seoul as saying the mushroom-shaped cloud was up to four kilometers in diameter.
Yonhap said there has been speculation the explosion may have been bigger than the one that largely destroyed a North Korean border town, Ryongchon, on April 22, killing 170 people and injuring an estimated 1,300 others.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
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