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Oooh, this could have an interesting impact. If I see things on the map correctly, the Soviets at the least have lost their base for their entire Pacific fleet, and I'm guessing that not a damn place left on their eastern coast is really suitable for being a base all year round.

My big question for you is do you want to get Americans to like non-Anglophone media that has been dubbed into English? If so, obviously, we've already got that. I think it would be a bigger challenge to get it popular a la K-dramas in other countries, undubbed, just with subtitles. The last...

Oh, also, as to the actual effects of that, I don't know, it could go either way, make people either more amenable to a more multi-ethnic US, or it could create harsher anti-Japanese/Asian sentiment down the road, and just create an actual Exclusion Act specifically regarding Japanese people.

Hmmmm, one of the problems has been that there's been significant anti-Asian sentiment in the United States for a damn long time, ever since the 1840s with the Gold Rush, this idea of seeing people who haven't been sufficiently WASP-y as not really American. Even Kennedy faced questions about...

Yeah, like perdedor was mentioning, that doesn't necessarily mean liberation. That could just as easily mean there aren't any more prisoners left in there... Europe's definitely not getting a happy ending any way I see it...

I don't know, on the one hand, North Korea had its official capital listed as Seoul, with Pyongyang as the provisional capital until the 70s at the earliest, IIRC. The ceasefire line there would have given NK about the same breathing room with Seoul as SK has today, so it could be feasible to...

There's no population around there to support Korean irredentism in Russia, Japan and China used to have Sakhalin Island, and there are a few tens of thousands of Koreans there now, but that wouldn't be realistic as a point for irridentism. Even the Korean Chinese tend to consider themselves one...

Oh shit, and here comes the storm.

Actually, that may or may not be the case. I've read that Pakistan, prior to publicly testing its nukes in 1998, may have been getting help from the PRC, and may have received either nuclear weapons or the use of Chinese test sites like Lop Nor. That being said, I'm not entirely sure where...

Ehh, don't have to worry about it not being plausible. http://web.archive.org/web/20050316140649/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3069653/ Minoru Yamasaki, the actual architect who designed the towers, testified that a hit closer to the foundations would have brought at least one tower down, possibly...

Ahh, technically, NNW. Also, any idea exactly where in the parking garage? If there was a spot in the garage that was around say the northwest corner of the site, that would make sense for it to fall, but if it was say closer to the southeastern foundations for the north tower, it might have...

With regards to the number of survivors, how exactly did the towers fall? You mentioned it "fell over", but I'm not sure if you mean it collapsed pancake style slightly to the west, or if it flat out fell over. If it was a pancake like on 9/11, remember that they found very very few survivors...

It's a really interesting choice that in this timeline Pyongyang would be chosen as the new capital. IOTL, both Koreas claimed Seoul as their national capital initially, and North Korea considered Pyongyang only as its provisional capital until the 70s or even later, if I remember right. But...

I read somewhere that without a Korean War, the US was willing to let Taiwan eventually fall, they weren't gonna be supporting a losing side of a civil war in China, and ultimately, they might have at least recognized the PRC a lot earlier. As for North Korea, one thing that might be...

Agreed with the last post, if I remember correctly, before the wall was put up, East Germany had lost something like 20 percent of its population through the Berlin loophole, and that's a number that most nations don't lose even in major wars that completely screw them. So East Germany's choice...

Yeah, this ain't impossible, considering how much of history seems impossible if you think about it, but it's damn near ASB territory I think. You live here, you know how nationalistic enough of the population can be, and that's of course the super toned down version. I think it was the 조선일보...

Also with regards to the idea of a "benevolent" empire, I presume we also include Japan's colonial holdings? Taiwan seemed like it was run pretty "benevolently" so to speak, with a few Taiwanese even getting elected to the Imperial Diet in the 30s, I wonder in Korea's case, what could be done...

With regards to Korea, a big thing would have to be getting the Royal family out of Korea and more associated with the independence movement. In particular, you gotta keep them from intermarrying with the Japanese Royal Family, that was probably a death knell for the possibility of the Yi...

Yeaaaah, this ain't happening. Most annexation the Soviets could hope for would be possibly Xinjiang and Manchuria again, under the stuff people already mentioned. On the other hand, if you keep China in more or less one piece, maaaaybe you could figure out how to do a sort of economic union...

Okay, random thought, but while Japan was obviously going to be screwed at the end of the war, they did manage to get a lot of fire balloons launched at the US. IOTL, the balloons didn't actually cause any significant damage, but they came damn close, one of those balloons nearly had a lucky...