Context
∙ South Korea is on high Alert as North Korea has launched Multiple Cruise Missiles into the Sea of Japan.
Sea of Japan
∙ Sea of Japan, marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean
∙ It is bounded by the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East.
∙ The sea is separated from the East China Sea to the south by the Tsushima and Korea straits and from the Sea of Okhotsk to the north by the La Perouse and Tatar straits.
