Japan sent a whole assassination squad to kill Empress Myeongseong and nobody talks about it

October 8, 1895. Before dawn. A group of Japanese soldiers and hired ronin stormed Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. Their target: Queen Min — Empress Myeongseong. Why? Because she was winning. She had been masterfully playing Russia against Japan to keep Korea independent, and Japan was running out of diplomatic options. So they chose the most extreme one. They broke into the palace, dragged out court ladies trying to identify the queen, found her, killed her, carried her body to a nearby forest, doused it in kerosene, and burned it. They tried to destroy every trace of her existence. The Japanese minister to Korea, Miura Goro, orchestrated the whole thing. He was later arrested and put on trial in Japan — and acquitted. Every single person involved walked free. This is one of the most horrifying political assassinations in modern Asian history. A sitting queen, murdered in her own palace by agents of a foreign government, her body burned to ashes. And somehow it's barely a footnote in world history textbooks.