I. INTRODUCTION

KOREA, the land of Morning Calm, is a country that lies between China, Japan and Russian Siberia. It has an area of 84,000 square miles, not including the “Ten Thousand Islands,” that cluster thickly along its western and eastern shores, and give a total area of nearly 90,000 square miles. In length it is about 660 miles with an average width of 130 miles, forming a peninsula that divides the Yellow and Japan Seas.