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	Korea Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Korea Strait is a sea passage between the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
		The Tsushima Islands lie to the west center of the Korea Strait, and the broader eastern channel (Tsushima Strait) is bounded to the west by Tsushima and to the east through south-east by Honshu and to the south-south-east by Kyushu.
		The Tsushima Strait is narrowest at its southern end, constricted there by nearby Iki Island, which lies wholly in the strait near the tip of Honshu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_Strait (786 words)

	Encyclopedia: Korea Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bound by the Japanese islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu and the Russian island of Sakhalin to the east, and the Korean peninsula and mainland Russia to the west.
		The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia.
		The Tsushima Strait (å¯¾é¦¬æµ·å³¡) is that part of the Korea Strait located east of the Tsushima Islands â” a small archepelago of fourteen closely located islets grouped around one large island divided by a canal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Korea-Strait (2331 words)

	STRAIT - Definition
		Bering Strait, Bosporus, channel, Dardanelles, desperate straits, dire straits, East River, Golden Gate, Hellespont, Korea Strait, Korean Strait, Menai Strait, narrow, Pas-de-Calais, situation, Solent, state of affairs, Strait of Calais, Strait of Dover, Strait of Georgia, Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Magellan, Strait of Messina, Strait of Ormuz, the Solent
		Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
		Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/strait (278 words)

	Pusan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		During the Korean War (1950-53), Pusan was a major port of entry and supply depot for United Nations forces.
		During the Koryo dynasty (10th to late 14th century), it was named Pusanpo (Korean pu, meaning "kettle"; san, "mountain" [from the shape of the mountain behind it]; and po, "bay," or "harbour").Pusan is now the nation's largest port and second largest city.
		On a deep, well-sheltered bay at the mouth of the Naktong River facing the Japanese islands of Tsushima, across the Korean Strait, Pusan was opened to the Japanese in 1876 and to general foreign trade in 1883.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/city/pusan.htm (426 words)

	OCEANOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE BERING SEA, OKHOTSK SEA AND JAPAN/EAST SEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the north and north-east, the Japan/East Sea is connected with the Sea of Okhotsk by the Nevel’skoy Strait and Laperuz Strait (Soya), in the east - with the Pacific Ocean by the Tsugaru Strait, in the south - with the East-China Sea by the Korean (Tsushima) Strait.
		In the bounded area located to the east of the Korean Peninsula, at the depths of 100-400 m it is distinguished an intermediate layer of decreased salinity formed in winter at the expense of the surface waters sinking in a zone of frontal division.
		Synchronous variations of the sea level and tidal currents in the Tartar Strait and Korean Strait occur according to the law of two-nodal seiche which swelling occupies all central deep water part of the sea, and the nod lines are located near the margins of the given straits.
	atlas.pacificinfo.ru /HTML/e_4_00.htm (8952 words)

	Cheju. Who is Cheju? What is Cheju? Where is Cheju? Definition of Cheju. Meaning of Cheju.
		The island and province are both called Jeju-do (제주도; 濟州島 (island); 濟州道 (province)), and the city - the provincial capital - is called Jeju-si (제주시; 濟州市) in Korean.
		Jeju-do - formerly known to Europeans as Quelpart - is a subtropical volcanic island, dominated by Halla-san, a volcano that is with 1,950m the tallest mountain in South Korea.
		The province is located in the Korean Strait (part of East China Sea) southwest of South Jeolla, and is the large island in the lower lefthand corner of the map shown here on the right.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Cheju (196 words)

	Nautilus Institute: A Vessel Traffic System Analysis for the Korea/Tsushima Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Korea/Tsushima Strait separates the southeastern coast of the Republic of Korea (ROK) from the northwestern coast of Kyushu Island and the southwestern coast of Honshu Island, Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan/East Sea with the East China Sea.
		Larger ships are prohibited from transiting the Straits and must offload part of their cargo and send it by separate ship through the shallow southern portion of the Malacca Strait and the Singapore Strait or follow an alternative route through the Sunda and Lombok Straits.
		The Korean exclusive zone is surrounded by a joint regulatory zone, within which fishing conditions for both States are controlled as to the number and size of boats, types of gear, quantity of catch, and fishing periods.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/papers/energy/PaulESENAY2.html (12923 words)

	Thursday, June 7, 2001
		One North Korean cargo sailed through the Cheju Strait, violating South Korean territorial waters, but another changed course and remained in international waters when challenged by South Korean navy and maritime police patrol boats.
		The Defense Ministry said captains of the three ships that transited the strait on Sunday told South Korean patrol boats that challenged them they were exercising "innocent right of passage" and had been told to do so by their government.
		The fact that the South Korean navy did not seize the intruding ships and the government’s proposal to allow commercial ships to transit territorial waters has triggered a storm of political and press condemnation in Seoul.
	ww2.pstripes.osd.mil /01/jun01/ed060701i.html (474 words)

	Eyewitness 01: Prologue
		Togo decimated the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Korean Strait (Strait of Tsushima).
		Korean rich and intelligentsia embraced the Japanese language and culture as their own.
		Korean patriots formed these bands as early as the late 1800's during the Peasant Wars led by Tonghak.
	www.kimsoft.com /korea/eyewit01.htm (917 words)

	2nd Infantry Division (2id), Korean War Veterans Alliance HQ
		Koreans who drive cars in those small towns stick out their hand and all it means is that they are going to do something.
		There was a Korean girl whose leg had been amputated at the thigh on a pallet next to me who cried all night while a man tried to console her.
		A North Korean soldier threw a grenade which was caught by one of the men who immediately threw it back which the Korean caught and threw back again which was quickly thrown back and when the Korean caught it, it exploded.
	www.2id.org /warstories.htm (17793 words)

	CP-041300
		The agreement to hold a summit was signed in Beijing by South Korea's minister of culture and tourism and the vice chairman of North Korea's Asian and Pacific Peace Committee.
		News of the summit lifted South Korean stocks 4 percent, reflecting the South Koreans' welcome of the development.
		Seen in this light, the Korean summit might expedite the pursuit of greater peace across the Taiwan Strait, even though no one can say for sure whether this will be the case.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /News/CP-041300.htm (552 words)

	IGCC Policy Paper 33 Marine Carriage of Petroleum with Special Reference to Northeast Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		By comparison, the Yellow Sea and Bo Hai and a large part of the East China Sea together with the East and West Korean straits are shallow until it reaches eastward the Okinawa Trough before the intervention of the Ryukyu chain of islands, which separates the East China Sea from the Pacific Ocean.
		The Sunda Straits is unsuitable as it has a "highly irregular bottom topography of the Straits and the presence of rip tides render it unsuitable for vessels drawing over 18 m of water to use the Straits.
		Among the littoral states and users of the Malacca Straits, there is already discussion on joint efforts in the establishment of the TSS involving the three littoral states with the assistance of Japan (Chia and Sakumoto, 1993; Chia, 1996, 1997).
	www-igcc.ucsd.edu /publications/policy_papers/pp3304.html (6109 words)

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		The Korean War ended in 1953 with the stabilization of the de facto boundary between North and South Korea at the 38th parallel.
		The Korean summit was an impressive success, and resulted in the brief reunion of 200 Koreans separated during the war, and a North-South declaration in which the two Koreas agreed to work toward reunification, settle humanitarian issues, increase economic cooperation, and to encourage continued dialogues between the two nations.
		The Korean summit certainly suggests a lessening of tensions on the Korean peninsula, and the potential beginning of a new era in intra-Korean relations.
	www.gwu.edu /~spi/koreaintro.html (1453 words)

	History of U.S. Naval Operations, Korea: Chapter 5, Part 1
		Although Korean territory extends for almost 600 miles from north to south, the distance between eastern and western coasts nowhere exceeds 200 miles, and in places is little more than half that distance.
		North of Wonsan the coast is somewhat indented, with a number of harbors and towns; to the southward it is almost unbroken and the Korean divide, running within ten miles of the Sea of Japan, hems in a narrow and isolated ribbon of land where population is sparse, towns are small, and ports are few.
		Inevitably the scheme of maneuver adopted by the North Korean army for the conquest of this corrugated country was governed by the orientation of transport routes.
	www.history.navy.mil /books/field/ch5a.htm (2910 words)

	December 18 Speed Boat Incident: A Comic Slow-Motion Fiction Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Korean Strait is one of the heaviest anti-submarine warfare zones for the American 7th Fleet, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the South Korean Navy.
		The Korean Straits is a major fishing ground for the Japanese.
		All these facts combine to betray the South Korean understanding that from the beginning there was nothing that could be described as a mother ship: the search was conducted simply for the purposes of faking a 'fleeing North Korean vessel'.
	www.kimsoft.com /1997/kmc99j1.htm (764 words)

	Korea Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To the north it is by the south coast of the Korean peninsula to the south by the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Honshu.
		The strait has a depth of 90 metres and is split by the islands.
		The Korean Strait was the location in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War the Japanese fleet annihilated their Russian counterpart.
	www.freeglossary.com /Korean_Strait (292 words)

	Code One Magazine: The ROKAF at Fifty — April 2000
		The Korean War is often termed “the forgotten war” in the United States, where most Americans derive their knowledge of the conflict from warmed-over episodes of MASH. Koreans*, however, have clearer memories and a more distinct understanding.
		North Korean forces have a variety of chemical and biological weapons at their disposal as well as missiles and heavy artillery that can deliver these and other weapons at long ranges.
		Korean expatriates desiring to support the independence movement in their homeland went through flight training at aviation schools in other countries.
	www.codeonemagazine.com /archives/2000/articles/apr_00/rokaf_1.html (3239 words)

	SOUTH KOREA1
		South Korea occupies the lower 45% of the Korean peninsula in eastern Asia, its present northern boundary being the demilitarized zone separating it from North Korea since the Korean War, the 38th parallel.
		On the east and south are the Sea of Japan and the Korean Strait, which separate it from Japan; on the west, the Yellow Sea lies between Korea and the People’s Republic of China.
		Following liberation from Japan in1945 the Korean peninsula was divided approximately in half by the Soviets and the U.S. On August 15, 1948, a separate, pro-Western government was established for South Korea, and the Republic of Korea was proclaimed.
	www.albany.edu /acc/AccountDptmt/Research/pacificrim/southkorea.html (3360 words)

	Current and Tide Observations in the Korea Strait - Storming Media
		A high velocity current core was found to exist on the western slope of the strait west of Tsushima Island for the entire recording period.
		Currents with tides flowing towards the northeast along the strait exceeding 120 cm/s while non-tidal currents were found to range over 45 cm/s.
		Long-term current observations are made in the Korea Strait for the first time.
	www.stormingmedia.us /97/9792/A979293.html (259 words)

	History of U.S. Naval Operations, Korea: Chapter 5, Part 4
		Seventh Fleet control of the Strait was consequently the crucial factor; with the Seventh Fleet involved in Korea, warning of attack was essential; on 10 July, therefore, as Struble returned from his visit to Taipei, redeployment of the Seventh Fleet patrol planes was begun.
		The air support mission, first of the Korean War, went awry as the strike aircraft, unable to reach the controllers on the prescribed radio frequencies, resorted to attacks on secondary targets in the area of the capital.
		This region was believed to contain a major concentration of North Korean forces; according to the dispatch the "total area is considered enemy." Commander Task Force 77 was adjured to search carefully and to destroy all armor, bridges, traffic, troop concentrations, and barges up to the limit of his capabilities.
	www.history.navy.mil /books/field/ch5d.htm (4423 words)

	FPRI-0600
		But Beijing and Moscow have moved away from pushing Korean reunification, fearing that valuable South Korean investment dollars would be redirected from northeast China and far east Russia to North Korea At the same time, after observing the difficulties and high price of German reunification, the South has become increasingly ambivalent about the idea.
		In the meantime, vigilance in the Korean Peninsula, a healthy skepticism about the results of engagement, and a swift response to North Korean brinkmanship are the best ways to manage this longstanding flashpoint.
		Despite the conflicting claims, panelists agreed that the South China Sea is not as "hot" a flashpoint as the Taiwan Strait or the Korean Peninsula.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /IS/FPRI-0600.htm (3284 words)

	Center Occasional Paper - SLOC Security in the Asia Pacific
		There are several straits of strategic importance in the region, such as the Straits of Malacca, Sunda, Lombok and Makassar in Southeast Asia, and the Straits of Tsushima, Tsugaru, Osumi, and Soya (La Perouse) in Northeast Asia.
		Secondly, regarding the transit passage through international straits, it is defined as the exercise of the freedom of navigation and overflight solely for the purpose of continuous and expeditious transit in the normal modes of operation utilized by ships and aircrafts for such passage.
		Besides, controversy lies in the rights of a strait state to interfere with transit passage due to suspected pollution incidents, and the scope of regulatory responsive measures to accidents and pollution taken by a strait state.
	www.apcss.org /Publications/Ocasional%20Papers/OPSloc.htm (7597 words)

	CAL Maritime - Follow The Voyage 2004
		Moreover, just prior to the fog setting in, we were overtaken by a large oil tanker on her way up through the Korean Strait.
		The Korean Navy provided a seven-piece combo band, which was a delightful change to our normal CD player background music.
		Their campus is huge and heavily subsidized by the Korean government, which is a testament to the importance of maritime affairs to this country’s future.
	www.csum.edu /archives/vctsgb04/cruise2004/08012004/captainslog.htm (1690 words)

	China-ROK-U.S. Relations and Regional Security in Northeast Asia - Executive Summary
		On the first level, the PRC's policy toward the Korean Peninsula has changed: its policy of equidistance between North-South in the 1990s has given way to a position that appears to tilt toward South Korea.
		China's diplomatic role as mediator and host to multilateral dialogue on North Korea's nuclear weapons development efforts appears to mark a new departure for China's diplomacy, signaling a potentially more activist and indispensable role for Beijing in contributing to regional stability.
		However, the authors note there is an asymmetry in tolerance of risk related to WMD threats and the details of any deal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula will be contentious and difficult to work out.
	www.csis.org /pacfor/annual/2003_exec.html (701 words)

	Military.com Content
		Truman also directs the Seventh Fleet to the straits between Taiwan and mainland China, hoping to discourage a widening of hostilities.
		North Korean troops capture Seoul, South Korea's capital and the largest city on the peninsula.
		North Korean troops cross the Han river, immediately to the south of Seoul.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1?file=timeline (765 words)

	Jeju - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jeju is the largest island and smallest province in South Korea, and the name of island's largest city and provincial capital (see Jeju City).
		Jeju Island is located in the Korean Strait southwest of South Jeolla Province, to which it belonged until it became a separate province in 1946.
		In Korean the island and province are both called "Jeju-do," as the word do in Korean means both "island" and "province" (although it represents 2 different Chinese characters).
	www.free-definition.com /Jeju.html (429 words)

	So Far From the Bamboo Grove Lesson
		Late summer-advised in the middle of the night that Russian soldiers have landed, Yoko, her sister Ko, and mother, flee for their lives to catch a train full of wounded soldiers that is departing for Seoul.
		Factory is invaded by Korean soldiers, workers killed and factory destroyed.
		Collapses and is saved by a Korean peasant family who hides him for several months.
	www.hawaii.edu /hga/GAW98/yoko.htm (876 words)

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