[KS] perspectives on Korean history

[Michael J. Pettid]

Mark,

Not to be trivial or too much off your request, but any question of 
invasions into the Korean peninsula should also be tempered by 
equally pertinent queries concerning the question of invasions 
launched from the Korean peninsula.  Particularly, I am writing of 
the invasion, subjugation, and colonization of the T'amna Kingdom by 
first the KoryO and then the ChosOn dynasties.  While much has been 
made of the long-suffering history of the peoples of the Korean 
peninsula at the hands of her neighbors, little has been written of 
the once-independent Cheju Island kingdom that suffered a similar 
fate as a result of expansionist desires by Korean kingdoms. 

Michael Pettid
The Academy of Korean Studies