AHC: US-North Korean Alliance

How to make the United States ally with the hermit kingdom in Korean peninsula?

This "alliance" can ranged from just constantly giving humanitarian aid (more than now, more like China) to full delegation-signed military alliance.

The status of South Korea is up to you.

Bonus point if the two do a joint military exercise together.

Thanks in advance!
 
Perhaps if a progressive regime came in after a coup or something ? And the US helps it break free from Chinese influence with aid and supplies - that might work
 

Andre27

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How to make the United States ally with the hermit kingdom in Korean peninsula?

This "alliance" can ranged from just constantly giving humanitarian aid (more than now, more like China) to full delegation-signed military alliance.

The status of South Korea is up to you.

Bonus point if the two do a joint military exercise together.

Thanks in advance!

IMO this unholy alliance is only remote possible if NK loses all faith in its historical allies (Russia and China).

The POD would have to be shortly after the iron curtain fell. Gorbachev moves closer to the west and radically decreases its support on NK.

At the same time China and Vietnam go for another round of border skirmishes. Combined with tensions along the NK/Chinese border regarding refugees the NK leadership loses its faith in its Chinese ally.

For the first time in history NK stands truly alone. China and the USSR are no more and the cooperation between NK and Iran are not yet matured.

When the famine hits the communist country it is faced with little options and trilateral talks between SK/NK/US begin.

Going from this a long road to mutual understanding between these three is started. Tensions along the DMZ lessen and families from the North and South can visit one another.
 
North Korea is able to overrun the South during the Korean war, due to the Soviet Union being present to veto the UN resolution against North Korea. (How much of an effect this would of had is anyone's guess but i'd say the US at least still goes to war, but without International support). Another possible POD is the Chinese actively supporting the Koreans at the start of the war. Flash forward to the 1970s the US (probably minus the Vietnam War) begins to start negotiations with the PRC as in OTL but here a much more respected DPRK dependent on Chinese aid joins to. This eventually leads to a joint Chinese-Korean-American-Japanese war exercise when the Soviet Union starts to flex its military muscle. (Possibly in an Invasion of Afghanistan) If India could somehow get closer to the Soviets this would become more plausible.
 
In this case, that is where my plausibility question of a possible Titoist analogue in Korea comes in. The KWP would definitely need some leadership shakeups that could result in a united DPRK pursuing a foreign policy independent from both the USSR and the PRC.
 
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