1.   It has also refrained from refueling the reactor.

2.   The North pledged not to refuel the reactor for now, preventing more spent fuel from being generated.

3.   After the reactor was refueled, tests found some control rods were dropping too slowly.

4.   Blix also said South Korean news reports which had quoted him as saying North Korea was preparing to refuel a reactor were wrong.

5.   Bowman said the Navy is leaning toward retaining four of those seven by refueling their reactors.

6.   Carter said North Korea had agreed to freeze its nuclear program, not reprocess any spent nuclear fuel, not refuel their reactor and allow international inspectors to stay.

7.   The hardline communist state later notified the IAEA of its plan to refuel the reactor at the experimental power station.