For a “foreign policy expert” Joe doesn’t know that Japan and Korea weren’t happily together and then split up after WWII. Japan actually took Korea by military force in 1910 and made it their colony. They destroyed Korean cultural sites, enslaved their people, took their land and gave it to Japanese citizens. Nobody in Korea, North or South, wants to get together with Japan ever again. JFC Joe!

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      not even back then:

      Major military efforts were taken by Kublai Khan of the Yuan dynasty in 1274 and 1281 to conquer the Japanese archipelago after the submission of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo to vassaldom. Ultimately a failure, the invasion attempts are of macro-historical importance because they set a limit on Mongol expansion and rank as nation-defining events in the history of Japan.

        • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          my point, like i wrote, is that even during the mentioned “mongolian empire” they weren’t “together”

          and that’s the entirety of what i meant. It was about history and not contemporary politics

          i don’t care about biden and what he does or doesn’t