Beijing, Sept 16, SPA -- Britain's ambassador to North Koreatraveled Thursday to the site of a massive explosion toverify claims by the North that it wasn't caused by anuclear test, an embassy official said. Ambassador David Slinn left in the morning on a charteredplane to visit the site of the Sept. 9 blast, the officialof the British Embassy in Beijing said on condition ofanonymity. The official said he did not have details on how longSlinn would stay or what he had seen. Slinn said Wednesday that he would be joined by diplomatsfrom the Pyongyang embassies of Germany, Sweden, the CzechRepublic, Poland, Russia, India and Mongolia. It was not immediately clear if all were on the planeThursday. An official at the Indian Embassy in Pyongyangsaid Ambassador N.D. Khankhup had decided not to go "dueto other engagements." The size of the reported explosion and its timing, comingon the 56th anniversary of North Korea's founding, hadraised speculation that it might be a nuclear test.--SPA1210 Local Time 0910 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/202215