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World to witness blasting of NKorean cooling tower: officials Sun Jun 22, 6:23 AM ET North Korea has invited five media organisations from foreign countries to cover live the blowing-up of a cooling tower at its main nuclear site, officials said Sunday. The invited organisations -- one each from North Korea's five negotiating partners at six-party disarmament talks -- include US news channel CNN, Seoul's top nuclear envoy Kim Sook said. The United Sates, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia have been in talks with North Korea to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. "Five news organisations -- one each from...

/begin my translation N. Korea Demanding Money for Staging 'Cooling Tower Demolition Event' in return for allowing live broadcast(of the demolition) ... under negotiation with U.S. Lim Min-hyuk It was revealed on Jun. 20 that N. Korea is demanding money for 'Cooling Tower Demolition Event' at Yongbyon Nuclear Complex. If U.S. starts the process of removing N. Korea from the list of state terror sponsors, N. Korea is to destroy the cooling tower within 24 hours, which would be broadcast live all over the world. Diplomatic sources said, "N. Korea has said that they would stage the 'demolition event' as...

RAINIER, Ore. -- Demolition crews on Sunday destroyed the 499-foot cooling tower at a defunct commercial nuclear power plant. With a rumble, the tower leaned to the side and collapsed upon itself - leaving a cloud of dust and multi-ton pile of rubble. It took less than 10 seconds and roughly 2,800 pounds of explosives to complete. Portland General Electric ordered the implosion at Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, about 40 miles north of Portland, as part of its decommissioning. Trojan closed in 1993 for financial and safety reasons, and the facility has been decommissioned in stages since then. It was...