1.   Contracts to provide the reactors should be signed within six months, it said.

2.   In return, Washington agreed to provide fuel oil while Japan and South Korea agreed to provide replacement reactors.

3.   The agreement does not say which country would provide the reactors.

4.   The United States is insisting that the new reactor be provided by South Korea, something the North Koreans have refused so far.

5.   The United States itself cannot provide the reactors because of laws prohibiting dealings with North Korea.

6.   But ensuing negotiations on other details of providing the reactors have stalled.

7.   But the agreement is in limbo over the issue of what country should provide the reactors.

8.   But Washington and Pyongyang have disagreed about what country will provide the reactors, and talks began Saturday in Kuala Lumpur to try to rescue the accord.

9.   He said details of the deal have to be worked out by the Korean Energy Development Organization, the body being established to provide the reactors.

10.   It was a warning to Seoul, which has hesitated to provide lightwater reactors to North Korea to replace reactors believed to have been used to develop nuclear weapons.