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More troublingly, he seems to be raking in plenty of "rewards" anyway, without giving up any of his weapons programmes.China, keen for a quiet life, says it isn't convinced Mr Kim has a uranium programme.

China and Russia want both sides to keep to the 1994 agreement and others that ban nuclear weapons from the peninsula, and on that basis to open talks.This would entail North Korea's verifiably dismantling its uranium programme.

Increasingly isolated through the spurning of its overtures, the North acknowledged the existence of its highly enriched uranium programme in October 2002, and offered a non-aggression pact with the US, which Washington immediately rejected.

But Mr Kim denies he has a uranium programme, even though Pakistan admits that a disgraced nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, sold him about 20 uranium-spinning centrifuge machines, and North Korea has attempted to buy other related equipment on the black market.

Should Mr Bush call for economic pressure on North Korea, he is unlikely to find China receptive.Some experts believe that by admitting to having a uranium programme, North Korea may be trying to engage a stand-offish America rather than threatening it.

And it would probably seek to keep a nuclear hedge: if it gave up its uranium programme, it would want to keep the plutonium it has already produced in the country, under inspection, giving itself an option to build more bombs quickly (it is thought to have at least two already).North Korea may be hoping for a deal more to its liking if John Kerry wins America's presidential election in November.

Israel opposes any agreement allowing Tehran to keep part of its uranium enrichment programme.

He said the country's uranium enrichment programme was on a scale that meant there was "no plausible civilian justification".

The Israelis wanted Iran to completely dismantle its entire uranium enrichment programme and eliminate all stockpiles of enriched fuel.

But Israel has branded the deal a "historic mistake" as it does not dismantle Tehran's uranium enrichment programme.

It delivered a limited declaration last month, omitting details of its alleged uranium enrichment programme and possible nuclear proliferation.