In nineteen fifty-one he dismissed General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Thursday's incident took place in waters west of the Korean peninsula one of the tensest maritime regions in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

As we go forward, as Japan goes forward with forming a new government, one of the key issues that we look forward to working with them on is the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

But there should not be war." One thing nearly all South Koreans agree on is the devastating human toll that all-out war would take on the peninsula,recalling - from direct experience or their education - that one and a half million civilians died during the three-year Korean War.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27