1.   The US Central Intelligence Agency later said in a report that North Korea had actively sold missiles to the Middle East and other tension zones last year.

2.   The United States is sending two aircraft carrier groups to the tension zone.

3.   Washington said Monday it was sending the US aircraft carrier Nimitz to the tension zone off Taiwan to join the US aircraft carrier Independence.

4.   Vice-Admiral Archie Clemins reaffirmed the US description of the sending of two aircraft carriers to the tension zone as a precautionary move.