The correct answer is D) West of the Sea of Japan.
What does not accurately describe the location of the Korean peninsula is " West of the Sea of Japan."
The Korean peninsula is surrounded by the Sea of Japan, East Sea, to the East, the Yellow Sea to the West, in East Asia.
Before World War II, Korea was one territory. But in August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and claimed the Nort Korean territory form parallel 38th. Immediately, US troops moved to the South. Years later, during the Cold War, both Koreas fought in the Korean War of 1950.