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The Imjin Invasions were two invasion attempts launched by the Japanese to conquer Joeson Korea and Ming China in 1592 and 1596. The Japanese got no further than parts of the Korean peninsula before they were stymied by combined Chinese and Korean forces and forced to retreat.

My question is, what the hell were they thinking? How did they think they could conquer and HOLD Korea and China?
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