Althistory Bavaria
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Ok, in my opinion there are two important things on south korea:
1. Avoid the economic reforms of the 80s, or anything like that.
The economic plans was, what transformed south korea from a poor military dictatorship into what it is today. Without that, its likely that south korea would have stayed poor and autoritarian
2. Keep the USA busy after the korean war.
From the 50s on, a lot of western investment and 'developement aid', mostly organized by the USA, went into south korea. While the economic pollicy was so incompetent and living standarts and the economy allmost didnt develope at all, it did at least help re-building the nation from the korean war, and prevented economic collapse. But if there was a hoter spot in the 50s and 60s, the US would have abandoned south korea for that. Another middle american country having a strong communist insurgency would be the perfect thing for that to happen. Lets say that FARC in Columbia is stronger and has more support or the Shining path in Peru is more influential. The US keep their puppet government proped up there, with military support and a lot of investment and financial support. There would be something more important than distant Korea on the own continent.
The first poimt would be enough to make north korea better than the south, but I want to make this scenario funny, so both will be applied.
In North Korea, Kim-il-sung had power like in OTL, and developes the country relatively well, like in OTL. When the eastern bloc collspses, north korea has a short time of strive, but with the south being still a lot worse, they can continue afterwards quite normaly. North Korea has better relations with china, aswell, with fewer military presence on the peninsula, and a much weaker counterpart in the south. North Korea overall would be a lot less sceptical of foreign nations in this TL. They still adopt Juche, but its not perverted with something like Songun as in OTL, and it remains just its 3 main principles:
1. Pollitical independence
2. Economic independence
3. Military independence
After Kim-il-sungs death in 1994, Kim Il sung takes over, but he doesnt take all power from parliament and party to his own position, like OTL, as the foreign treat is not as intense as OTL.
Tensions on Korean soil would be high, howerver, as the military dictatorship in the south would survive and treaten the north permanently, to keep its people on the line and to makethem forget their crapy lives, compared to the north. Suspected communists and pollitical dissidents, would be murdered a mass in south korea, just like ot was thecase in OTLs 50s and 60s south korea.
China would back North korea, sending a lot aid, economicly and militarily
By this point the US would likely start to back south korea in the name of beating communism in korea (for the second time now) and to weaken china, but its way to late for any hope to reach the north in terms of GDP or GDP per capita. Also the south korean leadership doesnt really care about developement anyways, and would focus on armament. South Korea could have nukes, and if it had, it would treaten the north with them.
The North would be fairly democratic by this point, and would have a lot better Human rights index along with being a lot more developed, economicly and socialy.
After Kim-Jong-Il there could come a non kim figure from the party to the top of the nation, but Kim jong un could succeed his father aswell. In any way the leader would be a lot more rational and nice thsn OTL todays north korean leader.
1. Avoid the economic reforms of the 80s, or anything like that.
The economic plans was, what transformed south korea from a poor military dictatorship into what it is today. Without that, its likely that south korea would have stayed poor and autoritarian
2. Keep the USA busy after the korean war.
From the 50s on, a lot of western investment and 'developement aid', mostly organized by the USA, went into south korea. While the economic pollicy was so incompetent and living standarts and the economy allmost didnt develope at all, it did at least help re-building the nation from the korean war, and prevented economic collapse. But if there was a hoter spot in the 50s and 60s, the US would have abandoned south korea for that. Another middle american country having a strong communist insurgency would be the perfect thing for that to happen. Lets say that FARC in Columbia is stronger and has more support or the Shining path in Peru is more influential. The US keep their puppet government proped up there, with military support and a lot of investment and financial support. There would be something more important than distant Korea on the own continent.
The first poimt would be enough to make north korea better than the south, but I want to make this scenario funny, so both will be applied.
In North Korea, Kim-il-sung had power like in OTL, and developes the country relatively well, like in OTL. When the eastern bloc collspses, north korea has a short time of strive, but with the south being still a lot worse, they can continue afterwards quite normaly. North Korea has better relations with china, aswell, with fewer military presence on the peninsula, and a much weaker counterpart in the south. North Korea overall would be a lot less sceptical of foreign nations in this TL. They still adopt Juche, but its not perverted with something like Songun as in OTL, and it remains just its 3 main principles:
1. Pollitical independence
2. Economic independence
3. Military independence
After Kim-il-sungs death in 1994, Kim Il sung takes over, but he doesnt take all power from parliament and party to his own position, like OTL, as the foreign treat is not as intense as OTL.
Tensions on Korean soil would be high, howerver, as the military dictatorship in the south would survive and treaten the north permanently, to keep its people on the line and to makethem forget their crapy lives, compared to the north. Suspected communists and pollitical dissidents, would be murdered a mass in south korea, just like ot was thecase in OTLs 50s and 60s south korea.
China would back North korea, sending a lot aid, economicly and militarily
By this point the US would likely start to back south korea in the name of beating communism in korea (for the second time now) and to weaken china, but its way to late for any hope to reach the north in terms of GDP or GDP per capita. Also the south korean leadership doesnt really care about developement anyways, and would focus on armament. South Korea could have nukes, and if it had, it would treaten the north with them.
The North would be fairly democratic by this point, and would have a lot better Human rights index along with being a lot more developed, economicly and socialy.
After Kim-Jong-Il there could come a non kim figure from the party to the top of the nation, but Kim jong un could succeed his father aswell. In any way the leader would be a lot more rational and nice thsn OTL todays north korean leader.