11.   Perry is not likely to meet with the U.S. nuclear inspection team now in the North to take a look at an underground facility outside Pyongyang.

12.   As a compromise, Russia was trying to acknowledge previous progress and register movement towards the eventual shifting of nuclear inspections into less intrusive long-term monitoring.

13.   At the same time, Israel explains its unwillingness to submit to international nuclear inspection by pointing to potential attack from such adversaries as Iran, Iraq and Libya.

14.   Clinton criticizes North Korean conditions for nuclear inspection.

15.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is telling members of Congress that Israel can delay accepting international nuclear inspection until there is peace in the Middle East.

16.   Iraq also banned surprise inspections by the U.N. agency that conducts nuclear inspections, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.

17.   Iraq rejects Russian proposal on nuclear inspections.

18.   Israel will open itself up to nuclear inspection if its neighbors allow Israeli nuclear inspectors in, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Thursday.

19.   Israel, meanwhile, explains its unwillingness to submit to international nuclear inspection by insisting there is a danger of attack from Iran, Iraq and Libya.

20.   Israel, meanwhile, explains its unwillingness to submit to international nuclear inspection on a potential attack from such adversaries as Iran, Iraq and Libya.