Officials are also raising questions about a second, significantly larger North Korean reactor scheduled to be completed in 1995.

Probably radiation from a North Korean reactor gone wrong.

North Korea had balked, saying that South Korean reactors were unsafe.

North Korean nuclear reactors produced plutonium that could readily be processed for use in nuclear weapons.

North Korea's objection is not merely to the name of the Korean standard reactor, as you suggest, but also to the substance of the reactor being offered.

But North Korea has until now refused to accept the South Korean reactors, saying they are unsafe.

However, the agreement is not likely to state that it is a South Korean reactor.

Rather, the reactor is likely to be described in a technical way that could only apply to the South Korean reactor.

North Korea might be reluctantly accepting the South Korean reactors, but it refuses to acknowledge that fact.

Some American officials say that as a matter of pride, the North Koreans did not want to accept a South Korean reactor.