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 | | The Chosun court which ruled Korea, was well aware of the colonization of China as well as the (Click link for more info and facts about Opium Wars) Opium Wars there, and still followed a strict policy of isolationism however. |
 | | In 1871, the United States met Korea militarily, in what the Koreans call the (Click link for more info and facts about Shinmiyangyo) Shinmiyangyo and in America is also called the 1871 US Korea Campaign. |
 | | A rapidly modernizing (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan forced Korea to open its ports and successfully challenged the Qing Empire, which claimed sovereignty over Korea, in the (Click link for more info and facts about Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)) Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). |
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