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Also, the Joseon federal government adopted a stringent isolationist coverage, earning the nickname "the hermit kingdom", but ultimately failed to safeguard itself in opposition to imperialism and was compelled to open its borders, starting an period leading into Japanese imperial rule.

But the Sui Military was lured into a entice because of the famed Koguryŏ 토토 commander Ŭlchi Mundŏk, and suffered a calamitous defeat at the Salsu (Ch'ŏngch'ŏn) River. It is claimed that only 2,seven-hundred on the 300,000 Sui troopers who had crossed the Yalu survived to uncover their way back again, and also the Sui emperor now lifted the siege of Liao-tung Fortress and withdrew his forces to China good. Yang Ti continued to send his armies from Koguryŏ but once again without results, and just before long his war-weakened empire crumbled." ^