South Korea dismisses #Trump's remark that Korea was "part of China."

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Jeffrey Guterman?Verified account @JeffreyGuterman

South Korea dismisses #Trump's remark that Korea was "part of China."

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DaytonaHeat? @DaytonaHeat 3h3 hours ago
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Trump spouts a lot of nonsense not worthy of response.




Mopshell? @Mopshell 19m19 minutes ago

But he does it on the international stage while representing all of America.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/04/19/trumps-claim-that-korea-actually-used-to-be-a-part-of-china/?utm_term=.523e0549a8e0



Fact Checker Analysis


Trump’s claim that Korea ‘actually used to be a part of China’
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee April 19 at 7:04 PM



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Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 6. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

“He then went into the history of China and Korea. Not North Korea, Korea. And you know, you’re talking about thousands of years . . . and many wars. And Korea actually used to be a part of China. And after listening for 10 minutes, I realized that it’s not so easy.”
— President Trump, interview with the Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2017

This claim was largely buried in news coverage of Trump’s wide-ranging interview with the Journal, during which he made numerous flip-flops on several policy areas. But it belatedly went viral in South Korea after a Quartz article Tuesday drew attention to it.................



......We’re not going to rate Trump’s claim, since it’s unclear whether Trump was actually quoting Xi or instead misunderstood what he was told. But his flippant reference to the Chinese-centric version of Sino-Korean relations was careless, at best.

If Trump was actually referring to the tributary system between Korea and China, then he left out a significant amount of context that distorted the relationship between them. Korea and China have long been intertwined, geopolitically and culturally. But Korea, or even Goguryeo, was not a spinoff of China, as he made it seem.

Korea has its own unique roots and history. It would be worthwhile for the president to get his history lesson from Korean experts, perhaps at the State Department, rather than potentially self-serving accounts from foreign leaders.