User blog comment:General tiu/Korea: who was he, and can he still be saved?/@comment-1271618-20100605132626

Some fans think that tact or trying to state your views without any offense is wussing out, but I think in a fandom as flammable as this one that has quite the international involvement...it's really best to be safe and NOT cause something like those YouTube race wars (I think the "unimportant countries" thing is annoying too when fans want to bash a character, since a lot of these countries HAVE had some sort of significance!). The deleted strips of chapter 3 could have caused a huge one with their D:-worthy lack of proper research, though seeing a debate on the Red Army was enough to show what could have gone bad. I've heard that it's caused some stuff between some German and Russian fans though elsewhere, those "Your country did worse things than mine!" debates that never really end well (don't want to really look those up or ask where though).

Korea's absence is still a matter of speculation right now for the manga "officially", but I think it's clear something's gone down what with the timing. Even a rewritten Korea still might not wash away the taste of the old strips for some, but it's a case of not being able to please everyone and it wouldn't be the first or last.