Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions: the Asian mainland
(aka. Indochina), and island arcs and archipelagoes to the east and
southeast. The mainland section consists of Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia,
Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia while the maritime
section consists of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Brunei, East
Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore.
Rhetoric has been ramped up significantly after North Korea fired 110 artillery rounds from its western shores. The incident occurred shortly after South Korea had completed large scale naval exercises in response to North Korea's deadly sinking of a South Korean War Ship.
