In recent weeks, these long-simmering tensions have returned to a boil, with violent protests in Chinese cities, and an island junket by South Korea's president.

The dispute is inflaming nationalist fervor from the cold North Pacific to the tropical South China Sea.

Here's a look at some of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's more prominent Moon children.

He has 10 children. There have been reports of family rifts.

The self-proclaimed messiah founded Unification Church.

In North Korea, poor drainage, widespread deforestation and crumbling infrastructure can turn even a routine rainstorm into a catastrophic flood.

The Korean Peninsula cleaned up Wednesday after one powerful typhoon and girded itself for another that could be particularly damaging to North Korea.

Rescuers saved 12 fishermen and searched for 10 still missing from the ships that hit rocks off South Korea's southern Jeju island.

However, in a split decision on patents, the panel also said Samsung violated Apple technology behind the bounce-back feature when scrolling on touch screens, and ordered both sides to pay limited damages.