And there would have never been a Korean war had the Allied powers allowed Japan to keep it as their territory.
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Oh so, very true... And, that does bring up one of the worst betrayals in the history of betrayals (what South Korea did to the Republic of China (Taiwan)), which lobbied for an indepedent Korea in the 1943 Cairo Conference...
Of course, from a Chinese perspective, it can also be argued, that China would never let the Korean peninsula be controlled by Japan... (Imjin Wars 1592,1597, Sino-Japanese War 1894)