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Two answers required. One of these two countries was described as a “dagger pointed at the heart of” the other by the Prussian military officer Jacob Meckel. The leader of the Enlightenment Party in one (-5[1])of these two countries escaped to the other in a shipping crate after the failed Gapsin Coup. A king of one of these two countries took refuge in the Russian embassy after his wife was assassinated by the other; that king later named his wife (*) Empress as a symbolic stance against the other country. The Kono Declaration was negotiated between these two countries and constituted an apology for war crimes. One of the two countries enacted a brutal 35-year occupation of the other, (10[1])exemplified by sex slaves called “comfort women.” (10[1])For 10 points, a 1910 (10[1])annexation involving what two countries ended the Joseon dynasty? ■END■

ANSWER: Japan AND Korea [accept Nihon-koku or Nippon-koku in place of “Japan”; accept North Korea or South Korea or Hanguk in place of “Korea”; accept Choson in place of “Korea” until “Joseon” is read]
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