"No one appears to be quarterbacking a game plan in which intrusive inspections continue and produce results."

North Korea would abandon its nuclear program and agree to intrusive inspections.

India has also told the truth about what it's doing and is now willing to subject itself to intrusive inspections.

The degree of intrusive inspection needed may be difficult for both sides to swallow.

Last summer Iraq demonstrated that it was unlikely to allow any intrusive inspections like those of the past.

That would trade far more intrusive inspections, something the North still says it will never allow, for political and economic benefits.

To get down even to this level among the nuclear five, some pretty intrusive inspection (including challenges on site) would be needed.

But they could not agree on the most sensitive issue: how intrusive inspections of the presidential sites would be.

How much deadly weaponry might Iraq have left after eight years of intrusive inspections?

As a result, the officials say, intrusive inspections are necessary in Iraq's case.