Inside North Korea
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Korean Peninsula Is a Tough Neighbourhood, Right?
i like how you describe them as sharks, in a sense, because i do think that's how the koreans have seen it, that they are these, these sharks that are circling and that their very existence was under threat. So very much a question of their own existence. And there were attempts over the millennia to absorb korea, because it's strategically located for japan, it was seen as a possible stepping stone to the rest of the asian continent. For russia, it could provide a useful access as well to the other pacific countries. I'm going to rampage through modern careean history here before we even get to the end of the japanesep en
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