History Essay: How did Ming China and Chosŏn Korea each try to achieve border security against the “Japanese” pirates in the sixteenth century before the Imjin War?

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A research paper explores the challenges that Ming China and Choson Japan faced with the insurgent pirate attacks by the Japanese pirates.
MING CHINA AND CHOSON KOREA IN FIGHTING JAPANESE PIRATES
The diplomatic relations among Japan, Choson Korea, and Ming China was a dicey relationship marred with shuttle diplomacy, war, and in most cases forgery encompassed with sending of false envoys by Tsushima Japan in the pretext of king Ashagan of Japan. The territorial closeness of Tsushima with Choson put it at a vantage point to run monopolistic trade deals with Korea Choson on behalf of Japan's royal court. Tsushima developed a good rapport with Choson that advantaged it to transact numerous trade deals with Korea without restrictions.
However, the incidences of "The Riots of the three ports" changed the entire equilibrium, and Choson became hostile towards Japan and Tsushima, and it cut down on trade deals. The three ports Che-p'o, Pusan-p'o, and Y ŏ m-p'o situated on the southern coast of the Korean peninsula have harbored Japanese ships freely, and Japanese since the early fifteenth century moved to the ports and settled there, earning the name resident Japanese. The riot culminated into a war involving resident Japanese and Tsushima soldiers attacking the Che-p'o garrison and the Pusan garrison, killing port officials...