Why would any Asian nation in their right minds go about antagonizing the Japanese, considering the long history of Japan completely conquering the crap out of all of East Asia on one fell swoop.
I’ve heard the humorous adage “Never Fight A Land War In Asia” repeated, but that rule of warfare doesn’t apply to Japan.
The USA finally defeated the Japanese, but we did it yard by blood-soaked yard with flamethrowers at a terrible cost in human lives and ultimately had to produce an appallingly expensive secret weapon to vaporize their cities and end the war rather than launching an attack on the Japanese homeland. As a result of inventing this terrible weapon our world has never been the same since.
God’s sakes, Asia. Stop poking at the Japanese. They’re at least 300 years into the future compared to the rest of you twits. Every Asian attempt to conquer Japan has failed miserably, yet Japan has enslaved all of Asia three or four times already with little more than steely determination and sharp knives.
If Buddha wanted you to defeat Japan, he’d have blessed you dumbasses with a miracle. Knock it off already and get over it.
Something additional to note here. Japan would have owned all of Asia, except for the intervention of Western powers in the 1890s and again in WWII. The Western powers interceded and stopped Japan from taking China and so Japan had to stop after Korea in the 1890s. And the U.S.A. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan one day short of the Russians launching an invasion of the Japanese homeland, holding the Russians at the 38th parallel in Korea (thereby creating the division of North Korea and South Korea). If not for the U.S.A., Japan would have owned China, and could conceivably have blunted much of Russia's abilities to expand.
This thing between Russia and Japan ain't over, the Russian's remember getting whipped by the Japanese in 1904/1905. The North Koreans, as a former vassal state of the Russians, want to antagonize the Japanese. There's no logic to it from a western point of view, but the North Koreans don't care.