AHC:Korean-Japanese Inversion

With POD not earlier than 1600 AD swap socio-political situation between Japan and Korea.
To be more precise:
In year 2013 Korea should be united with parliamentary monarch as it's system of government while Japan is divided in two states, one totalitarian and other being a republic.
 
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Sorry I couldn't do this for an earlier time period. I don't know enough of Japanese history.

The Mongol invasion lands nearly enough troops to succeed on their second attempt to lay waste to half of Japan.

Due to the population loss and the fuedal state that Japan is in. The unattacked half begins warring with each other for dominance while the other half seeks peace throughtrade. This leads to eventually democracy and a war between the southern shogunate and the nothern democrats.

This leaves Korea to develop on its own. Korea eventually opens to the westerners and forms a constitutional monarchy and aids the northern Japanese to form a more stable government. The southern government becomes more stable and more totalitarian.
 
The closest you could get is a more successful Ikko Ikki sect, and that's about 100 years before the challenge. Anything later seems highly unlikely, unless we have foreign intervention in the Boshin lead to the creation of a republican state that actually lasts. Question is how can you plausibly divide Japan a north and a south seems unlikely to last, east and west is possible, but If your using the Ikko Ikki their power base was in the center of Honshu. Even if you do somehow divide it, a major question is what happens to the emperor, I doubt he would be killed unless either the Ikko movement or for the sake of argument shogunate forces become radicalized enough to do so. Although even in the Boshin War the main battle was who have control over the country the Shogun who was seen as weak or forces who called for the emperor to have more power.

If we don't have a Japan that undergoes the Meji restoration and no Imjin wars We could not also see a stronger Korea but potentially a longer lasting Ming dynasty.
 
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