In the 19th century, when it comes to Korea, Japan was doing the heavy lifting. Queen Min (who couldn’t be pinned down by Korea’s intensely patriarchal society) developed a spy network in Imperial Nippon to track the modernization of its military as Japanese ambassadors practiced the same gunship diplomacy they learned from Europe.
She became such a problem, Japan sent a literal platoon of ninjas to kill her. Which they did, brutally.
19th century Russia is literally a European colonial nation through every its aspect
In the 19th century, when it comes to Korea, Japan was doing the heavy lifting. Queen Min (who couldn’t be pinned down by Korea’s intensely patriarchal society) developed a spy network in Imperial Nippon to track the modernization of its military as Japanese ambassadors practiced the same gunship diplomacy they learned from Europe.
She became such a problem, Japan sent a literal platoon of ninjas to kill her. Which they did, brutally.