Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War - a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur

Korean War - a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953

Chosen - the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)

D.P.R.K., Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, North Korea - a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948; involved in state-sponsored terrorism

Republic of Korea, South Korea - a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948

Asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations

peninsula - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water