{"id":177,"date":"2004-09-12T00:12:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T05:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=177"},"modified":"2004-09-12T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T05:13:15","slug":"large-cloud-seen-over-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"‘Large cloud’ Seen Over North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN is reporting a mysterious cloud in North Korea<\/a> that may or may not be the result of a nuclear test.<\/p>\n

A large cloud appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago, but a U.S. official told CNN it is “no big deal” and not the result of a nuclear explosion.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency is reporting a mushroom cloud over two miles (4 km) wide and a massive explosion in North Korea’s northernmost province on September 9 — the 56th anniversary of North Korea’s founding.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Sunday the government was aware of the reports and is checking them.<\/p>\n

The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.<\/p>\n

None of North Korea’s known nuclear sites are in the country’s northernmost provinces.<\/p>\n

However, The New York Times Saturday reported that President Bush and his top advisers recently received intelligence reports that could indicate North Korea is preparing a nuclear test, citing senior officials with access to the intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With so little definate, I’ll refrain from comment at this time other than to say I doubt little will be made known about this any time soon. I also note that the American official suggests forest fire while CNN’s URL includes “blast.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN is reporting a mysterious cloud in North Korea that may or may not be the result of a nuclear test. A large cloud appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago, but a U.S. official told CNN it is “no big deal” and not the result of a nuclear explosion. South Korea’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}