Only a fool would consider this a yesterday's war, provoked by a few requests made and denied, a history of general unrest and conflicting claims to a stripe of land lying between the two countries.
No matter on which side of the border one lived, the history was very much biased to one side or the other. This was no lesson in diplomatic theory. This was scheming, simple and straightforward.
Taking into account the details that have gone into the said scheming, into picking out which spots to deploy spies, which strongholds to bring down before the ultimate face off between the armies, it is apparent that ages of planning, perhaps from the inception of Goryeo itself - the war has been in the making.
