According to a US official the mushroom cloud Correlating with the huge explosion in North Korea was not a nuclear mushroom cloud.
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From CNN.com
South Korea's Yonhap news agency is reporting a huge explosion shook North Korea's northernmost province on Thursday producing a mushroom cloud over 4 kilometers (two miles) wide.
The blast coincided with the anniversary of North Korea's founding on Sepember 9 when various military activities are staged.
The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.
South Korea's Unification Minister Chung Dong-yong said the government was aware of the reports and is checking them.
"I have no information about the size of the damage of the explosion," he said on Sunday, according to Yonhap.
Chung also said he believed there was no correlation between the explosion and reports of North Korea preparing for a possible nuclear test.
No suprises, but NK isn't giving out any information...
John Irvine, a reporter for Britain's ITN TV who is in Pyongyang, said there has been no official response from the North Korean government, although there is pressure to provide an explanation.
"I'm touring outside Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, right now with the British Junior Foreign Minister Bill Rammell, who has just told me that he is demanding a response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here in North Korea," Irvine reported Sunday.
I really hope that this wasn't a nuclear explosion... BUT, if it was, I really hope Cheif Chimpo doesn't try and keep it secret.
[editor's note, by wmandevi] This was supposed to be in the original post, but I missed it when I cut and pasted from word--
I'm not saying I automatically assume the press doesn't quite know what they are talking about but.. Well, that is what I am saying... We could be in the depths of Nuclear Winter and Chimpo would probably tell the country its the liberals fault for trying to pass anti-global warming laws. Or he would blame it on rouge terrorist aliens... Any excuse to start a galactic war. And 10 bucks says most of the press would eat it up.