AHC/WI: North Korea obtains China's Jillin, Liaoning and Heilongjang Provinces

Historically, Korean territory was not just limited to the Korean Peninsula. Two Korean kingdoms, the Goyuero and the Sillia, had territory that encompassed parts of modern day Manchuria with Sillia only occupied Liaoning and Goyuero occupying Jillin and Heilongjang along with Liaoning.

Today, some Korean nationalists claim that Korea, as a united country, should also encompass these provinces, though nobody takes these claims seriously. Even North Korea recognizes the provinces as sovereign Chinese territory, though it should be mentioned that the area bordering North Korea has a large Korean minority, though it is slowly being replaced by ethnic Chinese.

So with a POD of either just after the Korean War or during the 1960s when North Korea was going through a economic boom, create a scenario of what would've happened had North Korea somehow acquired these three provinces
 
That would be relatively impossible as the population of the these three Chinese provinces were (northern) Han Chinese whose ancestors hailed from Shandong Peninsula.
 
Not to mention the moment the USSR's back turns, whatever China is in power is going to move right in.
 
Then it isn't North Korea, since there weren't even 10 million people in DPRK in 1954, yet Jilin and Heilongjiang had over 11 million each and Liaoning had 18.5 million. Even accounting for the sizable Korean population along the border, the country would be maybe 25-30% Korean at most.

I could see DPRK gaining the Jiandao/Gando region (modern Yanbian), given that it's historic Korean territory, was part of Korea under Japanese rule, and is populated mainly by Koreans.
 
Historically, Korean territory was not just limited to the Korean Peninsula. Two Korean kingdoms, the Goyuero and the Sillia, had territory that encompassed parts of modern day Manchuria with Sillia only occupied Liaoning and Goyuero occupying Jillin and Heilongjang along with Liaoning.

Today, some Korean nationalists claim that Korea, as a united country, should also encompass these provinces, though nobody takes these claims seriously. Even North Korea recognizes the provinces as sovereign Chinese territory, though it should be mentioned that the area bordering North Korea has a large Korean minority, though it is slowly being replaced by ethnic Chinese.

So with a POD of either just after the Korean War or during the 1960s when North Korea was going through a economic boom, create a scenario of what would've happened had North Korea somehow acquired these three provinces
This is ASB. Sorry.

However, it might be barely possible with a slightly earlier PoD. Specifically, if Chiang wins the Chinese Civil War while the Soviet Union props up Mao in Manchuria, there is a very slight chance of the Soviet Union eventually pressuring Mao and Kim Il-Sung to unite their two countries (Manchuria and North Korea) in order to form a united Communist front as well as a stronger country which is more resistant to US-sponsored regime change. At some future point in time, some ethnic Korean can be put in charge of this Manchuria-North Korean state. Afterwards, this new leader will try to Koreanize Manchuria in order to turn it into an extension of North Korea.

It's not very plausible, but it's not completely impossible either.
 
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