Excellent read---thank you I did know about that but haven't seen anything for years.
One of the things I quickly learned when I got to Korea is that the Korean people have a deep seated hatred of the Japanese. I was to learn that hatred of the Japanese spreads across much of Asia----and it is well founded. The Japanese were brutal bastards to the people of every country they captured---and they have not forgotten.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis