The U.S. Cable Leaked by Wikileaks Is Bothering

What bothers me most in the U.S. cable leaked by Wikileaks is the point made by Chun in relation to DPRK's collapse as in an excerpt from the cable below.

Chun acknowledged the Ambassador’s point that a strong ROK-Japan relationship would help Tokyo accept a reunified Korean Peninsula under Seoul’s control. Chun asserted that, even though “Japan’s preference” was to keep Korea divided, Tokyo lacked the leverage to stop reunification in the event the DPRK collapses.

What's discussed in the above excerpt seems to be surprising to the general public in Japan. Major concerns the general public may share are as follows:

1. Reunification cost
2. Internal conflicts and turmoil
3. Refugees

Japan remembers a bitter lesson learned from Japan's effort in improving the livelihood of the Koreans after Japan annexed Korea to Japan in 1910.

There was nothing but a bunch of the uneducated, uncivilized and oppressed people suffering from poverty at all on the Korean peninsula when annexed to Japan in 1910.

Japan spent an enormous amount of money in building infrastructures there and educated the people for 36 years from 1910 to 1945. Some infrastructures constructed in Korea were far better than what Japan had on its mainland in those days.

However, what the two Koreas and their people have given Japan and her people in return “hatred toward Japan and her people” generated through rewriting the history into the one that has helped the two Koreas justify their own incompetence to deal with China.