AHC: Powerful North Korea

Have North Korea be the prime power in the Korean Peninsula while South Korea is simply playing second fiddle, responding to their actions rather than vice versa*. Bonus points if they are a primary power in the entire Sea of Japan. Even more if NK is a democracy while SK is a despotic Hermit Kingdom.

*I know you could say that SK is simply responding to NK now but thats a discussion for another thread.
 
Drop Juche and Sung's godhood, perhaps follow Eastern Europe's shift in the 90s or even earlier during detente (steal those manufacturing jobs from China), and have the dictatorial corruption in the South continue.
 
Drop Juche and Sung's godhood, perhaps follow Eastern Europe's shift in the 90s or even earlier during detente (steal those manufacturing jobs from China), and have the dictatorial corruption in the South continue.

Pretty much. NK isn't going to amount to shit long-term if the Kim family is in charge. An earlier death for Kim Il-Sung along with reformers in charge afterwards is the easiest way to do it. Juche is eliminated or reformed, and the country follows a model similar to China. Democracy is pretty unlikely in NK but an authoritarian, pseudo-capitalist regime that allows for a strong standard of living is the way to go.

As for SK, if it goes the way of South Vietnam, it may end up begging for NK to annex it.
 
Either Kim Il Sung dies early or North Korea wins the Korean War, Unified Communist Korea might be less suspectible to descend into total paraonia without their isolation, through given what happened with Hoxha, it is still possible.
 
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