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To: RealMuLan who wrote (36628)	7/27/2003 7:11:17 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The Country America Cannot See By MUN YOL TI The problem of American policy toward Korea has been endlessly debated and analyzed. Still, if there is anything to add it is this: the American perspective on Korea has changed little since the end of the 19th century. As John King Fairbank, the historian, made clear in "East Asia: Tradition and Transformation," in the Pacific War America fought Japan for China; in the Korean War, it fought China for Japan. When I first read these words roughly 20 years ago I failed to catch their full significance, but over time this sentence revealed to me the American perspective on Korea. Namely, even though America's young people fought and shed blood on Korean soil, Korea was not a part of the American consciousness. For America, Korea has always been understood as a part of China or a part of Japan. nytimes.com