Nyora kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Nationalist historiography inopemberera kukunda kwakasiyana kwe "maKorea" pamusoro pe "vatorwa" kusanganisira Hondo yeGoguryeo<unk>Sui (612), Hondo yeGoguryeo<unk>Tang (645), Hondo yeGoryeo<unk>Khitan (1018), Hondo dzeKorea-Jurchen (1107), Kukunda kweMongol kweKorea
(1231<unk>73), uye kupindirwa kweKorea neJapan (1592<unk>1598). Naizvozvo, magamba ehondo akadai saEulji Mundeok weGoguryeo<unk> uye zvirokwazvo mauto ose ehumambo hutatu hwemazuva ano hweGoguryeo, Baekje, uye Silla<unk> vanopihwa zvakajairika, "nyika" kuzivikanwa kwechiKorea. Zvisinei, maererano nemashoko aJohn Duncan, "hazvibviri zvachose" kuti vanhu vomumadzimambo iwayo vaizozvibatanidza ne"boka guru re'vanhu vokuKorea' vakanga vasingateveri miganhu yenyika uye vakanga vasina kuvimbika kuhurumende". Yi Sang-ryong, uyo akataura kuti nhoroondo "yakasimudza chiremerera chenyika uye yakasimudzira kuda nyika" ("kungmin chŏngshin") akataura kuti panguva ye "nhoroondo yekuchamhembe" yevaKorea muManchuria, kubva panguva yaDangun kuenda kuBalhae, Sushen ("Suksin") uye vanhu vechiJapan vaive pasi peDangun.