1.   An alert order was issued for all military units along the roads leading to Seoul, the officials said.

2.   At one point, North Korea insisted that the scheduled family reunions could take place only after South Korea lifts its anti-terrorism alert order.

3.   North Korea insisted that South Korea lift the alert order first to clear the way for the family reunions, the reports said.

4.   North Korea vowed not to send delegations to South Korea unless the alert order is lifted.

5.   North Korea denounced the South Korean alert order as targeting it.

6.   Soon after alert orders were issued, two dozen U.S. Navy warships left Mediterranean ports in search of the security of the high seas.

7.   The North did not elaborate but the country said through its media it could not send delegations to South Korea unless the alert order was lifted.