"USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in news:0uhMa.2179$xi4.779
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>> "USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> > 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.
> 
> It's not a big deal at all. You are the one who made the bold statement
> implying that no other country
> would have taken over Korea, if Japan had not at that time.
> YOU can't know this, and neither can I.
> But based on historical events at that time, there is obviously a high
> probabilty that your statement is
> dead wrong. Period.

Actually, I don't know where USA is going with the above.
Of course, we have no idea what could've happened,
had Japan not occupied Korea.  One doesn't have
to be a genius like you to figure that out.

The following options were possible.

1) It could've been swallowed by Russia
2) It could've been swallowed by China 
    (doubt it since they had their own problems)
3) It could've been swallowed by France
   and today Koreans could be eating 
   Freedom Fries and Freedom Toasts.
4) It could've been swallowed by the US
   and Koreans would be like Puetro Ricans today
5) It could've found a way of wiggling out
   and stayed independently like Siam did

What are you suggesting?  Earlier you suggested
that Koreans should be thankful to Japan because
they did not let Korea to be taken over by
the likes of Russia or America.

Is that what you mean?