1.   In return, Washington offered to provide reactors for its commercial power needs to replace the graphite system.

2.   At the Berlin talks, Pyongyang rejected US proposals that North Korea adopt South Korean light-water nuclear reactors to replace its graphite reactor system.

3.   Carter said on his return from Pyongyang that the North was interested in replacing the graphite system with light-water reactors.

4.   Carter said on his return from Pyongyang the North was interested in replacing the graphite system with light water reactors.

5.   Japan is ready to help North Korea convert its graphite nuclear reactor system to a light water type, a ruling party leader was quoted as saying Wednesday.

6.   The graphite system, developed by Soviet experts, is said to produce more plutonium, a material that can also be used in nuclear warheads.