[nickcarraway]

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[coloradan]

“However, the Daewongun’s Chinese poems, as shown in the recently uncovered letters written by Horiguchi, paint an entirely different picture,” Kim said. “People associated with the assassination, including Horiguchi, insisted after the incident that the Daewongun was the ringleader of the killing. These letters are important evidence in proving that their story was fiction.”

I’m sure this is the first and last time in history that it will be found the history doesn’t match the facts. After all, we have it on good authority that elites never act to conceal their intent, and that every case where such is alleged is merely a baseless conspiracy theory.

Oh, and furthermore, Russia! Russia! Russia!, and Hunter’s laptop was hacked, and Kyle crossed state lines with an illegal gun to murder black people, Jan 6th was worse than the civil war, Epstein committed suicide, TWA800 crashed because of a mechanical failure, and Ron Brown’s plane went down due to the worst storm in a decade.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Although most people do not remember or understand this was the start of WWII Pacific Theater.

Japan and their war against the US and the UK was going to happen from this moment. Although an argument can be made for 1874 when Japan sized Okinawa but I will not go into that here.

Japan was determined to make the Pacific a Japanese lake which would mean taking over most of Asia and the west coast of the Americas.

Which was why they were establishing colonies up and down the coast and why, when WWII started those countries either confined or expelled the Japanese.

The Japanese were excessively cruel to their conquered, even shocking the Nazis who were no shrinking violets. They were quite interested in biological warfare and had conducted several experiments with weaponizing the plague. These experiments were successful and a plan to hit the US with it was planed for September of 1945. Code named Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night it would have spread the bacteria (Yersinia pestis) known to have caused the five greatest epidemics in human history during a time when the world was already in disarray.

The fact that WWII in Europe had pushed the US into creating the atomic bomb was the only thing that prevented it.

History you don't learn in school.

[blueunicorn6]

I think the atomic bombs probably saved more Japanese than American lives.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 11/23/2021, thanks nickcarraway.

Sorry, I am a little late seeing this.

[LadyDoc]

British travel writer Isabella Bird Bishop visited Korea at this time and met the monarchs. Later she relates the assassination...she tells this story related to her by local missionaries but she also viewed the devastation of areas when Japan fought Chinese troops who came in to help.

Missionaries usually get bad reputations by the atheistic press, but they usually know what is going on and are willing to report grass roots opinions and government atrocities.

The Japanese essentially made Korea their colony and were very repressive.

Ironically, Imperial Russia tried to defend the monarchs.

The Japanese Russian war a few years later not only was a precursor to World War II but was one of the causes of thr Russian revolution.

[x]

Okay, now do the First US Korean War which happened 150 years ago. We lost.