FLAG 9 Flag of the Greater Korean Republic
FORMATION OF THE GREATER KOREAN REPUBLIC
Years 2012-2022
2012: Kim Jong-Un becomes leader of North Korea, announcing the creation of a new weapons program to expand North Koreas “defenses” against any aggressor, causing major power outages all along the east and north, as well as creating a even more repressive regime than his father.
2013: Massive environmental damage along its eastern cost line due to a failed nuclear test lead to the deaths of thousands and the failing of the crops in the north. The UN imposes harsher restrictions on trade with the North Korean regime, with China finally suspended any monetary aid or trade to North Korea. Over the next few months millions starve in the streets due to failed crops across the nation, leading to mass rioting amongst the civilian and even military populace. South Korea, aided by the US and Japan begins send troops along its northern most border, fearing a attack by Kim Jong-Un in order to stave off North Koreas collapse.
2014: Rioting finally reaches Pyongyang , after Kim Jong-Un sold much of the remaining grain into Russia, to gain more money for his assault on South Korea, perceiving the buildup of troops along the DMZ as a act of aggression, and attacking now would “unify ay dissenters back into the glorious regime“. As thousands storm the streets, tired of Kim’s actions, clashing with Kim supporters, usually violently, Kim orders the military to fire upon both sides to restore order. Much of the military, tired, underpaid and starving in many places themselves, finally rebel, joining the rebelling citizenry against Kim’s loyalists, resulting in Kim and much of his families capture as they storm his palatial residence.
Military leaders form a Military Junta, and some of their first acts is to reestablish trade relations with UN members, the deformation of the Juche system, releasing many dissenters from prison or hard labor, and to bring back talks with South Korea on first the end of the DMZ, and later reunification and rebuilding of their country.
2015: Over the next year the Military Junta, led by General Chang-Uk , opened the country to foreign aid, became disarming their stockpiles according the UN sanctions and the physiological rebuilding of their nations people, aided by South Korea. Kim Jong-Un is put on trial, along with over family members and party politicians (with the exception of Kim Jong-Nam and Kim Sul-Song , who fled the country prior to Pyongyang’s fall). Also, in a joint conference between Chang-Uk and Eun Wang (first female president of South Korea), they announce, following the next year, the creation of the National Unification Council, a cooperative government between the two nations , represented by both leaders, and other members, in order to smooth unification between the countries, whilst aiding the reconstruction of the North in order to avoid a economic crash when they unify.
2016: The Nation Unification Council becomes the united governing body of the Korean peninsula, but still retaining equal representation in the UN. Thousands of North-South Korean families are reunited during this process, whilst South Korea aid in the construction of new infrastructure and agrarian processes into the North. Most of the Kim family have received life sentencing, whilst the remaining members (Nam and Song) are arrested in Luxemburg, sent back to the Korean peninsula, and forced to giver over their fathers secret holdings to help reconstruction, are stripped of their citizenship and deported to China, before disappearing from records all together.
2017-2019: Half the DMZ by now has being removed, enabling large influxes of transported goods and people to enter the North and South. New rail lines are established, booming influx of food and other produce to the North. Environmental campaigners however have pointed out the damage being done to endangered species living in the former DMZ zones, where many had recuperated their losses due to low human presence. The NUC establish most of the DMZ as a nature reserve, whilst “contained” lines are used for transport and tunnels dug for rail lines in order to both keep animal populations up, and , in the long run, boom tourism to the areas, and Pyongyang becomes a nominee for the 2026 Olympics.
Rampant unemployment however causes some concern, as many Northern military servicemen have being made redundant. However, the NUC established the “post military economic program“, giving former military work whilst studying, or entry into the tourist industry. Also, the NUC realized they now had a native military force with the remaining militaries of both nations, and asked the US to begin withdrawing now they had their own protective forces, a idea the US readily agreed too due to budget restraints.
2020-2021: The NUC holds its first trial election between all citizens off the Korean peninsula, whilst the last US forces leave the peninsula, with the exception of those applying for “nationalization” in Korea, due to both having families there, and the economic breakdown of the dollar in the global economy, resulting in the US losing international power. Also the NUC holds its first conference with its immediate neighbors, to deal with growing tension between China-Taiwan, the military situation in Japan now the US are withdrawing there, and the question of Tibetan independence.
They also unveil that by first formal election in 2022 (a month after both the Military junta of the North and Presidential Republic of the South formally dissolve, with the NUC acting as transitional goverment until the election day), they will formally unify the Korean peninsula back into a single nation, named “The Greater Korean Republic“, establishing Seoul as its national capital (Pyongyang becoming a Special City), and held a contest design for the new flag, expressing it to represent the united Korean people, as well as both the history of the peninsula and its future.
2022, March 1: The formal establishment of the Greater Korean Republic.