1.   Kim had already said this week that he would review all South Korean policies toward the North after the submarine incident.

2.   Presidential officials said the outgoing defense chief was held responsible for the submarine incident.

3.   Given its hard-line policy, North Korea is unlikely to apologize for the submarine incident.

4.   Kim expressed satisfaction that the council, in an apparent concession to China, did not explicitly declare the submarine incident to be a violation of the armistice.

5.   Laney said that before the submarine incident, North Korea indicated it might participate in the three-party briefing.

6.   North Korea to apologize for bloody submarine incident.

7.   South Korea, as the main financial backer of the project, refused to send experts unless North Korea apologized for the submarine incident.

8.   Had a new peace mechanism been established as Pyongyang proposed, KCNA said, the submarine incident would have been settled through negotiation.

9.   His visit to Pyongyang came the day after South Korean President Kim Young-Sam promised to pursue efforts for Korean peace talks despite the submarine incident.

10.   In Seoul, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said earlier it would bring the submarine incident to the UN Security Council as an open breach of the armistice.