South Korea welcomes Trump with highest award, golden crown and ketchup
From menus featuring American beef and ketchup to the gifting of a massive replica gold crown, Donald Trump's welcome to South Korea appeared carefully crafted to please the US president.
Mr Trump touched down in Gyeongju on Wednesday, local time for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit — the final stop on his whirlwind tour through Asia.
Japanese overlord
I found it surprising and interesting that Trump received an ancient Korean gold crown as a gift!
I felt that Trump was very pleased to see the splendor of Korea's gold crown!
What does a crown mean to East Asians?
Perhaps Koreans want an American civilan to become the king of East Asia and bring peace and prosperity?
My beloved elder brother Steve, I nicknamed him the King of the Rockies!
I guess he lives in a state with a population of 580,000!😄
His travels across North America always amazed and entertained me!
The vastness, beauty, and abundance of the North American continent have always overwhelmed and filled me with envy!
He traveled across North America in that huge truck!
I thought that because of America's vast territory and harsh nature, we had to drive such big, sturdy trucks!
Americans are brimming with confidence because of the vastness of the American continent and its boundless food and resources!😲
Starving children in North Korea
Children of the London Slums
An upper-class Japanese woman and her servants
Fat Joseph
From my perspective, America is a world blessed by God!
2. American civilians and East Asian overlords
1. The Birth of the Pacific Empire!
General power of attorney to Yi Wan-yong signed and sealed by the last emperor, Sunjong of the Korean Empire (Yi Cheok, 이척 李坧). The last emperor's first name '坧' used as signature.
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, was made by representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire on 22 August 1910.[1] In this treaty, Japan formally annexed Korea following the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 (by which Korea became a protectorate of Japan) and the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 (by which Korea was deprived of the administration of internal affairs).
Japanese commentators predicted that Koreans would easily assimilate into the Japanese Empire.[1]
In 1965, the Treaty of Basic Relations between South Korea and Japan confirmed this treaty is "already null and void".[2]
Japan's overlords were convinced 150 years ago that 
The Japanese overlords considered
Above all, what the Japanese overlords feared most was
So, Japan's overlords believed they would have to wage war against
However, Japan was too small and poor compared to the United States.
The Japanese overlords believed they absolutely had to conquer Korea and China!
After conquering Korea and China, they had to wage war against
So Japan started a war and made Korea a colony in 1910.
However,
Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee (Korean: 이승만; Hanja: 李承晚; pronounced [iː.sɯŋ.man][b]; 26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965), also known by his art name Unam (우남; 雩南),[1] was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. Rhee was also the first and last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1919 to his impeachment in 1925 and from 1947 to 1948. As president of South Korea, Rhee's administration was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and in the late 1950s growing political instability and public opposition to his rule.
Syngman Rhee was a member of Korean royalty and a Christian. He argued that Korea should become a Christian nation like the United States.
Syngman Rhee asked the United States to help Korea achieve independence.
Syngman Rhee predicted that after conquering Korea, Japan would start a war to conquer China.
Syngman Rhee told
He argued that if the US stands by and watch Japan's war of aggression against China, Japan will eventually attack the US.
However,
Japanese troops entering Shenyang during the Mukden incident
The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.[3][4][5]
On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto of the Independent Garrison Unit [ja] of the 29th Japanese Infantry Regiment [ja] detonated a small quantity of dynamite[6] close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden (now Shenyang).[7] The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track, and a train passed over it minutes later. The Imperial Japanese Army accused Chinese dissidents of the act and responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan established its puppet state of Manchukuo five months later.
As Syngman Rhee predicted, Japan began a full-scale invasion of China in 1931.
The Chinese said it was the beginning of a 15-year war with Japan.
Clockwise: Japanese landing forces in gas masks during the Battle of ShanghaiNRA forces on the Great WallNanjing Massacre victims on the Qinhuai River shoreChinese machine gun nest at the Battle of WuhanJapanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 in the bombing of ChongqingChinese Expeditionary Force marching in India
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.[24][25] It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century.[26] It is known in the Republic of China and People's Republic of China as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.[a]
On 18 September 1931, the Japanese staged the Mukden incident, a false flag event fabricated to justify their invasion of Manchuria and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo. This is sometimes marked as the beginning of the war.[27][28] From 1931 to 1937, China and Japan engaged in skirmishes, including in Shanghai and in Northern China. Nationalist and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces, respectively led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, had fought each other in the Chinese Civil War since 1927. In late 1933, Chiang Kai-shek encircled the Chinese Communists in an attempt to finally destroy them, forcing the Communists into the Long March, resulting in the Communists losing around 90% of their men. As a Japanese invasion became imminent, Chiang still refused to form a united front before he was placed under house arrest by his subordinates who forced him to form the Second United Front in late 1936 in order to resist the Japanese invasion together.
The full-scale war began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident near Beijing, which prompted a full-scale Japanese invasion of the rest of China. The Japanese captured the capital of Nanjing in 1937 and perpetrated the Nanjing Massacre. After failing to stop the Japanese capture of Wuhan in 1938, then China's de facto capital at the time, the Nationalist government relocated to Chongqing in the Chinese interior. After the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Soviet aid bolstered the National Revolutionary Army and Air Force. By 1939, after Chinese victories at Changsha and with Japan's lines of communications stretched deep into the interior, the war reached a stalemate. The Japanese were unable to defeat CCP forces in Shaanxi, who waged a campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare. In November 1939, Nationalist forces launched a large scale winter offensive, and in August 1940, CCP forces launched the Hundred Regiments Offensive in central China. In April 1941, Soviet aid was halted with the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact.
In December 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and declared war on the United States. The US increased its aid to China under the Lend-Lease Act, becoming its main financial and military supporter. With Burma cut off, the United States Army Air Forces airlifted material over the Himalayas. In 1944, Japan launched Operation Ichi-Go, the invasion of Henan and Changsha. In 1945, the Chinese Expeditionary Force resumed its advance in Burma and completed the Ledo Road linking India to China. China launched large counteroffensives in South China, repulsed a failed Japanese invasion of West Hunan, and recaptured Japanese occupied regions of Guangxi.
Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Soviet declaration of war and subsequent invasions of Manchukuo and Korea. The war resulted in the deaths of around 20 million people, mostly Chinese civilians. China was recognized as one of the Big Four Allied powers in World War II[29] and one of the "Four Policemen", which formed the foundation of the United Nations. It regained all lost territories and became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.[30][31] The Chinese Civil War resumed in 1946, ending with a communist victory and the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, while the government of the Republic of China relocated on Taiwan.
Japan finally launched a full-scale invasion of China in 1937.
Syngman Rhee argued that American troops should land in Tokyo and occupy it immediately. He argued that Japan would attack the United States after conquering China.
There's no way a country like Japan would dare attack the United States!
Syngman Rhee said
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II. The air raid on Pearl Harbor, which was launched from aircraft carriers, resulted in the U.S. declaring war on Japan the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI,[nb 4] and as Operation Z during its planning.[14][15][16]
Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as American General Richard K. Sutherland watches, 2 September 1945
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction". While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders (the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, also known as the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the publicly neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable to the Japanese. While maintaining a sufficient level of diplomatic engagement with the Japanese to give them the impression they might be willing to mediate, the Soviets were covertly preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea (in addition to South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) in fulfillment of promises they had secretly made to the US and the UK at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.
After the United States conquered Japan, Korea was able to gain independence from Japanese colonial rule.
Closeup of the Korean Demilitarized Zone that surrounds the Military Demarcation Line
The division of Korea began at the end of World War II on 2 September 1945, with the establishment of a Soviet occupation zone and a US occupation zone. These zones developed into separate governments, named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), which fought a war from 1950 to 1953. Since then the division has continued.
By the early 20th century, both countries were one single nation: the Korean Empire. During World War II, the Allied leaders had already been considering the question of Korea's future following Japan's eventual surrender in the war. The leaders reached an understanding that Korea would be removed from Japanese control but would be placed under an international trusteeship until the Koreans would be deemed ready for self-rule.[1] In the last days of the war, the United States proposed dividing the Korean peninsula into two occupation zones (a U.S. and Soviet one) with the 38th parallel as the dividing line. The Soviets accepted their proposal and agreed to divide Korea, which led to the declaration of General Order No. 1.[2]
It was understood that this division was only a temporary arrangement until the trusteeship could be implemented. In December 1945, the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers resulted in an agreement on a five-year, four-power Korean trusteeship.[3] However, with the onset of the Cold War and other factors both international and domestic, including Korean opposition to the trusteeship, negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union over the next two years regarding the implementation of the trusteeship failed, thus effectively nullifying the only agreed-upon framework for the re-establishment of an independent and unified Korean state.[1]: 45–154 With this, the Korean question was referred to the United Nations. In 1948, after the UN failed to produce an outcome acceptable to the Soviet Union, UN-supervised elections were held in the US-occupied south only. Syngman Rhee won the election, while Kim Il Sung consolidated his position as the leader of Soviet-occupied northern Korea. This led to the establishment of the Republic of Korea in southern Korea on 15 August 1948, promptly followed by the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in northern Korea on 9 September 1948. The United States supported the South, the Soviet Union supported the North, and each government claimed sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula.
On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to re-unify the peninsula under its communist rule. The subsequent Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, ended with a stalemate and has left Korea divided by the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) up to the present day.
During the April 2018 inter-Korean summit, the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, and Moon Jae-in, then President of South Korea. During the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, several actions were taken toward reunification along the border, such as the dismantling of guard posts and the creation of buffer zones to prevent clashes. On 12 December 2018, soldiers from both Koreas crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) into the opposition countries for the first time in history.[4][5] In following years, dialogue broke down and hostilities resumed.
However, a greater tragedy and sorrow came to the Korean Peninsula.
The Soviet Union had long coveted Japanese territory. When Japan surrendered to the United States, the Soviet Union quickly seized the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, dividing it into two.
Mao Zedong proclaiming the foundation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949
The proclamation of the People's Republic of China was made by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The government of a new state under the CCP, formally called the Central People's Government, was proclaimed by Mao at the ceremony, which marked the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
Previously, the CCP had proclaimed the establishment of the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) within the discontinuous territories of China they controlled, on November 7, 1931, in Ruijin. The CSR had lasted seven years until it was abolished in 1937.
"March of the Volunteers" was played as the new national anthem, and the new national flag of the People's Republic of China (the Five-starred Red Flag) was officially unveiled to the newly founded state and hoisted for the first time during the celebrations as a 21-gun salute fired in the distance. The first public military parade of the People's Liberation Army took place following the national flag raising with the playing of the PRC national anthem.
The Republic of China (ROC) had retreated to the island of Taiwan by December 1949.
When China became communist in 1949, East Asia faced the risk of a new war.
The fact that the Soviet Union, the world's largest territory, and China, the world's most populous nation, had become communist empires posed an even greater threat to the United States.
So, Syngman Rhee argued that
Syngman Rhee argued that if
But,
Syngman Rhee claims
Infantry and armor of the U.S. 1st Marine Division during its breakout from Chosin Reservoir, 1950U.S. bombing during the Blockade of Wonsan, c. 1951Damaged gate of the Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon, c. 1951U.S. C-119 Flying Boxcar airdropping supplies near Chungju.Korean refugees in front of a U.S. M46 Patton tank, 1951Chinese infantrymen in action at the battle of Triangle Hill, 1952
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War.
After the end of World War II in 1945, Korea, which had been a Japanese colony for 35 years, was divided by the Soviet Union and the United States into two occupation zones[b] at the 38th parallel, with plans for a future independent state. Due to political disagreements the zones formed their own governments in 1948. North Korea was led by Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, and South Korea by Syngman Rhee in Seoul; both claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea. On 25 June 1950, the Korean People's Army (KPA), equipped and trained by the Soviets, launched an invasion of the south. In the absence of the Soviet Union's representative,[c] the UN Security Council denounced the attack and recommended member states to repel the invasion.[20] UN forces comprised 21 countries, with the United States providing around 90% of military personnel.[21][22]
Seoul was captured by the KPA on 28 June, and by early August, the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) and its allies were nearly defeated, holding onto only the Pusan Perimeter in the peninsula's southeast. On 15 September, UN forces landed at Inchon near Seoul, cutting off KPA troops and supply lines. UN forces broke out from the perimeter on 18 September, re-captured Seoul, and invaded North Korea in October, capturing Pyongyang and advancing towards the Yalu River—the border with China. On 19 October, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) crossed the Yalu and entered the war on the side of the North.[23] UN forces retreated from North Korea in December, following the PVA's first and second offensive. Communist forces captured Seoul again in January 1951 before losing it to a UN counter-offensive two months later. After an abortive Chinese spring offensive, UN forces retook territory roughly up to the 38th parallel. Armistice negotiations began in July 1951, but dragged on as the fighting became a war of attrition and the North suffered heavy damage from U.N. bombing.
Combat ended on 27 July 1953 with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement, which allowed the exchange of prisoners and created a four-kilometre-wide (2+1⁄2-mile) Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the frontline, with a Joint Security Area at Panmunjom. The conflict caused more than one million military deaths and an estimated two to three million civilian deaths. Alleged war crimes include the mass killing of suspected communists by Seoul and the mass killing of alleged reactionaries by Pyongyang. North Korea became one of the most heavily bombed countries in history,[24] and virtually all of Korea's major cities were destroyed.[25] No peace treaty has been signed, making the war a frozen conflict.[26][27]
The Korean War killed 50,000 Americans, 1 million Koreans, and 1 million Chinese. Total casualties are estimated at 3 million.
The Chinese overlords were worried that if the United States took control of the entire Korean Peninsula, it would invade China like Japan.
So, One million Chinese people died in the war with the United States.
An Australian soldier killed in the Korean War.
Madden was initially posted to the 114th Australian General Hospital in Goulburn, New South Wales.[1] As part of the CMF, he was not required to serve outside of Australia or its territories, but despite this he transferred to the Australian Imperial Force in August 1943. Nicknamed 'Slim' due to his lean build, Madden saw service with the 8th Field Ambulance in New Guinea, during which he contracted malaria.[2] He later served with the 5th Motor Ambulance Convoy Platoon on Bougainville and was part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan after the war. He was eventually discharged from the army in June 1947.[1]
After leaving the army, Madden took up work at a mental hospital. Two months after the Korean War broke out, he reenlisted with the Australian Army for service as a private in Korea. Initially assigned to 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) for duty as a driver, he later volunteered for signalling duties.[1]
In April 1951, the Chinese attacked the regiment's positions near Kapyong in what would be known as the Battle of Kapyong. Madden was among three Australian soldiers captured during the battle. During captivity, he demonstrated strong defiance to his captors. His defiant conduct, observed by many of the other prisoners and which would eventually see him nominated for the George Cross, was maintained despite beatings and other punishments such as extreme rationing of his food. His ill treatment eventually resulted in his death from malnutrition sometime in late November or December 1951 at age 27.[2]
Did Americans Forget the Korean War?
I had a discussion with Steve five years ago. I'm not sure I understood his English!😂
I guessed that the Korean War was a historical event that Americans did not want to remember!😅
A column of the US 1st Marine Division moves through Chinese lines during its breakout from the Chosin Reservoir with a M46 Patton medium tank.
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Battle of Lake Changjin (Korean: 장진호 전투; Hanja: 長津湖戰鬪; RR: Jangjinho jeontu; MR: Changjinho chŏnt'u), was an important battle in the Korean War.[c] The name "Chosin" is derived from the Japanese pronunciation "Chōshin", instead of the Korean pronunciation.[9][10][d]
The battle took place about a month after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict and sent the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) 9th Corps[e] to infiltrate the northeastern part of North Korea. On 27 November 1950, the Chinese force surprised the US X Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond in the Chosin Reservoir area. A brutal 17-day battle in freezing weather soon followed. Between 27 November and 13 December, 30,000[1] United Nations Command troops, later nicknamed "The Chosin Few", under the field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked by about 120,000[2] Chinese troops under the command of Song Shilun, who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to destroy the UN forces.
The UN forces were nevertheless able to break out of the encirclement and withdraw to the port of Hungnam in what U.S. historians described as the "greatest evacuation movement by sea in U.S. military history." Both sides suffered heavy casualties, with both battle casualties and non-battle casualties caused by the frigid weather. The withdrawal of the US Eighth Army from northwest Korea and its recovery by Chinese forces in the aftermath of the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and the evacuation of the X Corps from the port of Hungnam in northeast Korea marked the complete withdrawal of UN troops from North Korea.
The Battle of Lake Changjin (Korean: 장진호전; Hanja: 長津湖戰鬪; RR: Jangjinho jeontu; MR: Changjinho chŏnt'u) is claimed by the Chinese to be the greatest battle in which the Chinese army defeated the American army.
The Battle at Lake Changjin
The Battle at Lake Changjin (Chinese: 长津湖) is a 2021 Chinese war drama film produced and directed by Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Dante Lam, written by Lan Xiaolong and Huang Jianxin, and starring Wu Jing and Jackson Yee.[3][4][5][6] It was commissioned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party as part of the Party's 100th anniversary celebrations.[7][8][9][10] The film depicts the story of the North Korea-allied Chinese People's Volunteer Army, forcing U.S. forces to withdraw in a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War.[11]
The Battle at Lake Changjin is the most expensive film ever produced in China, with a budget of $200 million.[12] The film grossed $913 million at the worldwide box office, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2021.[2] It surpassed Wolf Warrior 2, becoming the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time[13] and the highest-grossing non-English film. On 5 February 2025, The Battle at Lake Changjin was surpassed by Ne Zha 2, which became the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time, the highest-grossing non-English film, and the highest-grossing film in a single market.[14] A sequel to the film, The Battle at Lake Changjin II, was released on 1 February 2022.
The film's depiction of the battle has been described as containing historical inaccuracies and has garnered controversy in some countries, including South Korea.[15][16][17] The film has also been described as propaganda.[18][19][20][15]
The Battle at Lake Changjin (Chinese: 长津湖) is a film praising the great victory of the Chinese army over the American army.
I wonder how much the American actors in The Battle at Lake Changjin (Chinese: 长津湖) got paid!🤣
Dear Rob, a Texan with beautiful, shiny hair, has received much love and friendship from the Chinese people, and will always remember them as true friends!🤣
I'm so curious to see what he feels when he sees The Battle at Lake Changjin (Chinese: 长津湖)!😆
Disclaimer Steve always warned me that my awkward and rude English might make someone sad, angry, or offended!
He always told me to be careful in choosing my English words and sentences.
So, I've always wanted to emulate the diplomatic and political English of the genius
I have never had any formal English education!
So, I hope my friends will point out the mistakes and dangers in my article!
I will always be grateful for advice and criticism!
Japan's overlords and Germany's Nazi Party
Stalin and Mao Zedong
