North Korea says new U.N.sanctions could bring about war on the Korean peninsula and will not slow its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

As Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a Southern separatist movement, and tries to wrap up a six-year old war in the north, Western governments warn their citizens to stay out of the country, scaring off tourists and investors.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

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

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.

ECONOMIST: Can Japan be Asia��s policeman?

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).

ECONOMIST: The Koreas

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.

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