11.   Helicopters prowled skies and dogs sniffed through fields near the tense Korean border Wednesday on fears that an agent may have successfully slipped across the border into South Korea.

12.   Hours after guards shot and killed a North Korean armed infiltrator, South Korea threatened severe retaliation Tuesday if its communist rival again violates the tense Korean border.

13.   In Seoul, the national Yonhap news agency said a U.S. military helicopter crash-landed in North Korea after crossing the heavily armed Korean border around mid-morning Saturday.

14.   It was the second armed clash reported along the Korean border in less than two months.

15.   It was the second such incident along the Korean border this year.

16.   Kanghwa is located at the western end of the Korean border facing the Yellow Sea.

17.   North Korea initially agreed to let the United States carry diplomatic pouches through the Korean border village of Panmunjom.

18.   On Friday, Rabin cancelled a planned visit to the Korean border village of Panmunjom because of bad weather and instead met President Kim over breakfast.

19.   Pentagon officials have said tens of thousands of mines placed along the Korean border are essential to defending against a possible invasion from the communist north.

20.   Several tributaries of the Imjin River flowing along the southern sector of the Korean border overflowed, inundating hundreds of homes and vast paddies, officials said.