Xinhua, the state news agency, kept its dispatch brief and clean: Mr. Yi, it said, was let go over "lifestyle issues".
Mr. McDonough was often dispatched to brief reporters about Mr. Obama's positions.
A senior official in Washington said Mr. Rumsfeld and General Myers were dispatched to brief the prince personally on the American accomplishments in Afghanistan and in the broader war on terrorism.
China's official news agency, Xinhua, mentioned the unscripted monks' protest in a brief dispatch, saying 12 monks "stormed into a briefing by a temple administrator to cause chaos".
He was arrested by the police in the central city of Wuhan, the official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief dispatch.
The South Koreans illegally entered the North "recently" and were now under interrogation, the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch.
The news, announced Thursday morning in a brief dispatch by the official Xinhua news service, said Vice Prime Minister Zhang Dejiang would replace him as party secretary of Chongqing.
"Comrade Kim paid his respect with a grief-stricken heart," the North's official news agency, K.C.N.A., said in a brief dispatch.
A brief dispatch by KCNA said the son, Kim Jong-un, and five others had been made generals in the Korea People's Army.
The news agency's brief dispatch ended by saying that Mr. Ji's injuries were not life threatening and that the terminal had quickly resumed normal operations.
The American entered North Korea on Monday and was under interrogation, the North's state-run news agency, K.C.N.A., said in a brief dispatch that gave no further details.
