1.   It stopped work at its Yongbyon nuclear facility, but it has prevented UN inspectors from removing fuel rods and determining if plutonium had been diverted for military use.

2.   North Korea is still balking at allowing inspections of two nuclear waste sites, visits that would help determine whether it had diverted plutonium to arms.

3.   Newer reactors, experts say, will make it more difficult -- but not impossible -- to divert plutonium for bombs.

4.   Once freed from the spent fuel, the plutonium could be diverted to make bombs.

5.   Such inspections could answer the question whether North Korea has diverted enough plutonium to make one or more weapons.

6.   That, they say, would increase risks that plutonium could be diverted or stolen to make bombs.

7.   The plutonium might be diverted by renegade nations or terrorists for use in bombs, he said.

8.   Despite its repeated denials, North Korea is suspected of having diverted enough plutonium to make at least one atomic bomb.

9.   Despite its repeated denials, the hard-line communist North is suspected of having diverted enough plutonium to make at least one atomic bomb.

10.   North Korea has been accused of diverting plutonium from its reactors to make nuclear weapons.