11.   South Korea, which with Japan is putting up most of the tab, was to provide the reactors.

12.   Technical experts from North Korea and the consortium began work Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on details of the contract to provide the reactors.

13.   The accord has bogged down recently over who will provide the reactors.

14.   The main dispute at the talks has been who will provide the reactors.

15.   The latest dispute focuses on whether the reactors can be provided by South Korea.

16.   The North agreed that the reactors could be provided by South Korea although it does not want them labeled as designed by its capitalist rival.

17.   The North agreed that the reactors could be provided by South Korea, although it does not want them labeled as designed by its capitalist rival.

18.   The United States wants to provide South Korean reactors, which are unacceptable to Pyongyang ostensibly for security concerns.

19.   The United States has formed an international consortium to provide reactors of South Korean origin, but North Korea balked at accepting reactors from its rival.

20.   But the accord hit many hitches, including whether South Korea would provide the new reactors.