Korean old style diplomacy: Will it work?
Japan's PM Takaichi (right) watches with discomfort South Korea's President Lee and his "splendid parade" of commercial representatives who accompany his diplomatic mission to China. The leaders of the industrial chaebol Samsung, Hyundai, SK, LG, etc., included in his delegation spur her sense of isolation. The latter a self imposed disadvantage due to her innate contempt for China, and ahistorical extremist nationalism (make Japan great again).
Graphic of "old Korea" ostensibly the Goryeo Dynasty-Song Dynasty trade routes. Korea was threatened by the "barbarian" Khitan Empire in the north (a tribal nomadic dominion in present day Manchuria, part of North Korea, and northern China) while the prosperous classical Chinese Song Dynasty existed to the southeast. Solution? Pay tribute to the Khitan to satisfy security needs and at the same trade with the Song Dynasty from the Boekrando trading port on the Yellow Sea north of Gangwha island and east of Kaesong (in present day North Korea). The Boekrando principle being that national security interests (placating the Khitan) need not and should not preclude the profitable trade with the Song, an advanced civilization.
Graphics source- 이재명 '벽란도'에 중국은 환호하고 일본은 통곡하고 있다ㄷㄷ B급정치 1.05.2026 youtube
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