"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Tell a Korean that his nation was part of Japan prior to WWII--go on,
I dare you.

Uh, it was.

Japan annexed Korea in 1910. As a provision of the Potsdam Declaration
established Korean independence in 1945.

I repeat, tell a Korean his nation was ever just a colony/possession of
Japan, then duck. That Japan held onto the place by force of arms didn't
make Korea part of Japan any more than the Soviets occupying places like
Poland and Hungary made them part of the USSR.