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| | TIME Asia Magazine: Rewriting History -- Aug. 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Now, almost 1,400 years later, Chinese scholars are attempting a subtler land grab, claiming that the ancient kingdom of Koguryo was a part of China—a "regional government founded by an ethnic group," as Beijing's state-run Northeast Asia Project put it in June. |
 | | On Aug. 5 Seoul dispatched an official to Beijing to complain about China's "ongoing distortion of the history of Koguryo," including the removal of the kingdom's name from a Chinese Foreign Ministry Web page on Korea. |
 | | To head that off, Byington says, China is flogging a flawed interpretation of Koguryo's history that is "obviously ideologically driven." Meanwhile, to fight the Chinese assertions, South Korea has set up its own research institute on Koguryo, with $9 million in annual funding. |
| time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501040823-682338,00.html (486 words) |
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