<grunt100@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > <grunt100@msn.com> wrote in message
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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.