Yup, in addition to all their other sins the jingos have no sense of drama.

That's an excellent point, good strategic thinking! It's why China is so invested in having North Korea as a buffer zone between itself and the U.S. At least in the modern era the South Korean "island" has more strategic value as a base for Air Force operations, to provide ports etc., but that wasn't much of a factor in the ancient world. According to records the Koreans in the south of the peninsula didn't even have horsemanship at this time, making them even less of a threat. This is a situation that I have my heroine go south to rectify in the third book. *is excited*