It's been long established that a victorious North Korea in the Korean War (at least with a POD where either the USA doesn't intervene heavily early on or messes up in the war) would go on to unite the peninsula and yet have a different kind of regime that's less like OTL's hellhole yet still...
In the 70s, North Korea proposed the formation of a confederal republic to achieve Korean reunification. This state would be known as Confederal Republic of Koryo and allow both countries to retain their individual political systems while uniting the country.
WI such a plan was realized?
