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B. Ending the pact would complicate joint efforts to detect and assess North Korea’s missile program as both must now rely on sharing information through the United States, their common ally. The flare-up between its two biggest Asian allies also adds to U.S. worries about China and Russia growing more assertive in the area.
C. The Korean peninsula extends southwards for about 680 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean. Surrounded by sea on three sides, it is bordered on the north by China and Russia. Japan ruled it as a colony from 1910 until the end of World War II in 1945 when it was divided by the United States and Soviet Union into what became North Korea and South Korea.
A. The Japanese archipelago is a group of 6,852 islands that form the country of Japan. Japan’s Tsushima Island is just 50 kilometers from South Korea’s second largest city, Busan. Current tensions stem from a South Korean court ruling last year that ordered Japanese companies to pay compensation to Koreans over forced wartime labor. But, Japan says it paid South Korea $800 million in 1965.
D. The Russo-Japanese War ended in 1905 with Japan imposing treaty that made Korea a protectorate of the Japanese Empire. Five years later Japan annexed Korea to rule it as a colony. The Soviet Union, which had replaced the Russian Empire, declared war on Japan in the closing days of World War II and occupied of the northern half of Korea.