Axis of Evil Watch

This can't be good:

A reliable source in Seoul's diplomatic community says Sunday a mushroom cloud with a radius of 3.5 to 4 kilometers was spotted in Kimhyongjik County in North Korea's northernmost inland province of Yanggang on Sept. 9.

Thank you Jimmy Carter & Bill Clinton.

It appears as if it was not nuclear. This didn't stop Kerry from slamming Bush for a poor Clinton administration policy:

Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry has leveled strong criticism against President Bush over North Korea and homeland security. President Bush defended his policies at campaign stops during a bus tour through the midwestern state of Michigan.Senator Kerry is accusing the Bush administration of letting what he described as a "nuclear nightmare" develop in North Korea by refusing to deal with Pyongyang when Mr. Bush first came to office in 2001. In an interview with the New York Times late Sunday, Senator Kerry blamed the president for shifting the country's focus to Iraq, while ignoring far larger nuclear threats in North Korea and Russia, home to unevenly secured stockpiles of demobilized nuclear warheads.

Hmmm...What does Kerry suggest we do about Russia?

Update II: It was blast from explosives for a hydro-electric project. I should've guessed.