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Korean War
A war that ended without a peace treaty, fought over a border two American officers drew on a map in a single evening five years earlier.
Korea
A peninsula that turned a century of occupation and war into a cultural export machine.
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First Sino-Japanese War
Fought mostly on Korean soil, this eight-month war was decided almost entirely by the two larger powers contesting it, and the surviving record still shows it.
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