The negotiations between the United States and the communist country began Friday and produced few results. The talks are meant to persuade Pyongyang to allow full inspections of its nuclear facilities. North Korea's first aim is to get a firm commitment to replace its old-fashioned graphite-moderated nuclear reactor with a modern light-water reactor which produces less of the bomb-making ingredient plutonium. But the United States said that financial constraints make it difficult to give them the Russian model of a light-water reactor they are seeking, according to diplomatic sources.
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