Harrison also said the North demanded the completion of the light-water reactors as compensation for the dismantling of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.

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This week's accord could result in little more than a return to a 1994 pact between America and North Korea, by which North Korea froze its operations at Yongbyon in return for fuel oil shipments and an agreement eventually to provide replacement nuclear reactors that could less easily be used to make weapons material.

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