One such concerns mine-sweeping, a non-combat activity that Japan might be expected to undertake for American troops making a landing on, say, a Korean peninsula at war.
This one involves not just North Korea and America, but also South Korea and China, and is the fourth in a series of meetings designed to bring peace to the Korean peninsula (the Korean war ended with an armistice in 1953 but no formal peace treaty).
Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.
America was drawn into the peninsula at the conclusion of World War II, which is over.
It wants to bring together members of families separated by the division of the peninsula in 1953 after the Korean war.
In a yearlong trial run that ended in the spring, 200 or so homes on Washington's Olympic Peninsula engaged in a daily bidding war for electricity.
Egypt has recently conducted offensively oriented war games in the Sinai Peninsula.
The strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula has changed significantly since the end of the Cold War.
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Saleh, while unpopular with many Yemenis, has been an ally of the United States in the war against terrorists, particularly al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Frequented by Russian holidaymakers, the peninsula has had little influence from the West and is better known for its war history than for the long strips of pebble beach propping the rocky Crimean Mountains.
The foes fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953 and left the Korean Peninsula divided at the 38th parallel.
With the six-party talks in tatters and faced with such a highly explosive situation in Northeast Asia, we the people in this region need to make it loud and clear that the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula will not be tolerated, and that we need peace and development rather than war and confrontation.
Since the Korean War (1953), the US has maintained a military presence on the Korean peninsula.
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