Respecting Chinese sensitivities, she did not exercise in the Yellow Sea, just off China's coast.
The incident occurred 170 miles southwest of Seoul near Eocheong, an island in the Yellow Sea.
The danger is some kind of military altercation in the Yellow Sea, a naval skirmish of some kind.
As the 1, 200-ton vessel went down, 46 sailors were lost near disputed waters in the Yellow Sea.
China, which borders the Yellow Sea, vehemently objected to the presence of the carrier so close to its shores.
According to the South Korean Maritime Police, the North seized 36 boats in the Yellow Sea in the 1990s.
As if to prove him right, on May 30th the North test-fired three ship-to-ship missiles in the Yellow Sea.
Command establishing the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a demarcation on the Yellow Sea designed to avert clashes at sea.
China began its own naval exercises in the Yellow Sea on September 1st.
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North Korea said the rocket would fly south, likely over open waters of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the drills will take place Monday or Tuesday in the Yellow Sea off the island.
The United States said Wednesday that it would hold military drills with South Korea in the Yellow Sea starting on Sunday.
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Clashes have occurred before in the Yellow Sea, especially during crab fishing season, according to the defense news Web site Globalsecurity.org.
However, the Yellow Sea has seen armed clashes in the past few years, the most serious of them in 1999 and 2002.
South Korea has strengthened its rules of engagement in the Yellow Sea.
The Yellow Sea is a longstanding flash point between the two Koreas.
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As South Korean naval frigates converged on the site in the Yellow Sea (which Koreans call the "West Sea"), the incident escalated dangerously.
Similarly, the latest North-South talks were heralded by a short but deadly exchange of fire in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea.
It may close a shipping shortcut to North Korean vessels, and conduct joint training exercises with American maritime forces in the Yellow Sea.
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These are due to resume on September 5th with drills in the Yellow Sea, which China regards as uncomfortably close to its own shore.
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But if the Yellow Sea clash was a deliberate effort by hardliners to scupper new talks, they have allies of a sort in Washington.
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According to Chinese media, three fishing vessels operating in Chinese waters in the northern reaches of the Yellow Sea were forcibly boarded on May 8.
The jellyfish spawn along the coasts of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea (see map in article) and some drift towards Japan.
Waters in the Yellow Sea are important for fishing and crab.
Because the land underneath Songdo didn't exist, the government of Incheon dumped 110 million cubic yards of dredged sand and mountain rubble into the Yellow Sea.
So the coastal waters of the Yellow Sea have long been the "theater" in which Pyongyang could most easily provoke a crisis, and most easily legitimize it.
North Korea built its rocket almost entirely on its own, South Korean military experts said earlier this month after analyzing debris retrieved from the Yellow Sea in December.
The group made the border crossing Saturday in the Yellow Sea off the west of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said this week.
Today, the Pentagon announced that the George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was on its way to the Yellow Sea for four days of drills with South Korea.
North Korea has subsequently proposed a different line -- one that would roughly extend the DMZ southwest out into the Yellow Sea, rather than hug the North Korean shoreline.
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