British ambassador visits DPRK blast site
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British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said Thursday that British ambassador to the Democratic People&#39;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has visited the site of a huge explosion that raised fears of a nuclear weapons test.
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Hundreds of troops returning to the UK from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from exposure to explosions
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Mention of North Korea inevitably summons up images of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-Il and starving children, but a Briton has put on display a side of the reclusive country rarely seen -- its artwork.
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The chief suspect in the murder of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko paid a previously unreported visit to London in the weeks before his poisoning with radioactive polonium, a witness in the case told Reuters.
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A group of foreign diplomats left Pyongyang on Thursday to visit the scene of a mysterious explosion in North Korea, an embassy official said.
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Diplomats from eight countries go to the site in North Korea where a massive blast was reported last week.
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Diplomats from countries including the UK will visit North Korea starting tomorrow to view the site of an explosion that last week prompted speculation of a nuclear test, a spokeswoman for the UK&#39;s Foreign Office said.
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Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell is travelling to North Korea - the first British minister to visit the ultra-secretive communist state.
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SEOUL A group of foreign diplomats was escorted Thursday to the site of a recent huge blast in North Korea, a diplomat here said on condition of anonymity.
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NORTH Korea yesterday agreed to let a British diplomat visit the site of a massive explosion which Pyongyang said was caused by the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
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Britain hopes North Korea may be willing to admit international human rights monitors for the first time, a minister who visited the secretive communist state last week said Monday.
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An explosion has occurred outside the British Embassy in Chile, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
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BEIJING - Foreign diplomats who visited the site of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said yesterday it was a hydroelectric project under heavy construction.
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Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed dozens of workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said Friday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.
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Some 20 minutes of heavy gunfire erupted near US Secretary of State Colin Powell Wednesday as he visited the National Palace here to show US support for the violence-racked country&#39;s interim government.
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A group of foreign diplomats left  Pyongyang on Thursday to visit the scene of a mysterious  explosion in North Korea, an embassy official said.
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BEIJING -- Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said yesterday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.