1.   The talks, the first between the two Koreas in a year, may result in deals to ship South Korean rice and Japanese rice alike to North Korea.

2.   A cargo ship carrying rice sank Friday during a storm in the North Atlantic.

3.   A ship carrying rice sank Friday during a storm in the North Atlantic.

4.   In June, North Korean authorities forced a South Korean ship unloading rice to fly a North Korean flag, violating the terms of the Beijing rice deal.

5.   The agreement to ship rice had come after the first official talks in more than a year, but further negotiations broke down as the result of heightened tensions.

6.   The third vessel was a Turkish cargo ship carrying rice from the Turkish port of Trabzon.

7.   Violating terms of the Beijing rice deal, North Korean authorities forced a South Korean ship unloading rice in late June to fly a North Korean flag.

8.   When a Greek ship carrying rice approached Freetown harbor on Tuesday it was scared off by shells fired into the water around it.

9.   The US company plans to ship rice and wheat from the United States to Japan with its own vessels soon after it receives permission.

10.   Suh said his group was ready to ship rice and other relief goods to North Koreans if Seoul eases restrictions on his campaign.