"USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message news:<uZALa.6319$oF.5907@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> <grunt100@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:5ba2f89c.0306282233.6c403674@posting.google.com...
"USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
news:<L%qLa.21476$N%6.10751@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>...
> How do you know? How do you know some other country may not have taken
>over
> Korea?
> The Japanese got into Korea to keep the Russians from taking Korea in
> the
> first place in 1904.

grunt100@msn.com:
> Typical Japan apologist continue to show off color.  Korea was ripe to
> be taken over anyways.

USA@aol.com:
> Typical Korean racist refuses to accept the reality that the Korean
> penninsula was
> a colonial prize over which nations were at war from the late 1800s onward.
> This is
> a reality nothing more. Has nothing to do with "apologists".

This kind of story line is quite familiar.  Past Japan apologists in
soc.culture.korean have tried the same:  if not for Japan, some other
powerful country might have taken over Korea, so what's big deal.