Their successes contributed to the prestige of the Peking regime at home and abroad, but they also foreshadowed a conflict with Soviet Russia, which regarded North Korea as lying within its own sphere of influence.

" "Many years ago," began the guide, "fifty-three Buddhist priests came from India to Korea for the purpose of converting the people to their belief.

It was more commonly used in Korea from the thirteenth century on and revolutionized Europe from 1538 on.

He had learned from Wang Ken that it was first brought to Korea in 1122

1 Rapid expansion from northern Korea to the Yangtze The Juchên in the past had been only a small league of Tungus tribes, whose name is preserved in that of the present Tungus tribe of the Jurchen, which came under the domination of the Kitan after the collapse of the state of Po-hai in northern Korea.