JI' AN (South Korea): South Korea is furious at claims by Beijing that an ancient kingdom regarded as its founding civilisation was a mere province of China.
Koguryo, the region in question, formed most of modern North Korea and a part of what is now China where many ethnic Koreans still live. It merged with the southern kingdom of Silla to form Goryo, from which the name Korea is derived.
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