Challenge: Make Kim Jong-il POTUS

Your challenge is to make Kim Jong-il POTUS. The POD must be no earlier than 1941, so his father still is still a Communist.

Bonus points if he keeps a similar Cult of Personality.
 
Your challenge is to make Kim Jong-il POTUS. The POD must be no earlier than 1941, so his father still is still a Communist.

Bonus points if he keeps a similar Cult of Personality.

Based on your signature, You have a fetish for People who hate Amerikaland.
Before the Korean War, The part of the Country that is now called South Korea, stages a coup, throwing out Communists. Kin Jong Il's father (whose naem escapes me as of this moment), flees to the US and births Kim there, and raises him.
Then, he ascends to POTUS and manipulates his power to make America Fascist, and creates a cult of Personality?
OK?

May I ask Why KJIL as POTUS?

Why don't you want him to be Prime Minister of Andorra? or Chancellor of East Germany?
 
ASB!!!! Their is no way Kim Jong can becoem Potus. Only through ASB intervention. Remember that the Democrats and Republicans has by this time a virtual monopoly on US elections. To top it off with the Soviet Union you get people who are scared as Hell about commies. Plus at this time America was still filled with Bigots and white supremacists who hated Asians and Africans. Especially the South. To top all this off we have the World war and considering FDR popularity Kim Jong stands no effing chance. Nor will he win against future presidents. Srry man this is ASB.
 
Based on your signature, You have a fetish for People who hate Amerikaland.
Before the Korean War, The part of the Country that is now called South Korea, stages a coup, throwing out Communists. Kin Jong Il's father (whose naem escapes me as of this moment), flees to the US and births Kim there, and raises him.
Then, he ascends to POTUS and manipulates his power to make America Fascist, and creates a cult of Personality?
OK?

May I ask Why KJIL as POTUS?

Why don't you want him to be Prime Minister of Andorra? or Chancellor of East Germany?

If you'd click those links, those are timelines I've been writing that are quite entertaining for the members of this board. I am a somewhat patriotic American, and have nothing against America in any way whatsoever. To prove that, I have written other stories like Super Obama, and Super Roosevelt.



Also, I made the POD 1941 because Kim Jong-il was born the following year. If lets say Kim il-Sung is forced to flee to America a year before Kim Jong-il's birth, then Kim Jong-il could become President maybe in the 1990's or 2000's.
 
Kim Il-Sung gets into a bit of trouble with the Soviet government in the early forties for whatever reason and becomes the target of a government assassination attempt/purge attempt. He and his family flee with other refugees to Alaska, where he keeps his nose down for the time being. His son, Kim Jong-il is born in Alaska, making him an American citizen at the time of his birth in 1941. The Kim family moves from Alaska down to California in early 1942.

In America, Kim Il-Sung finds his way into the military under an assumed name and is sent to fight in the Pacific against the Japanese. After assisting with the invasion of Wake Island and further going to fight in the battle of Midway, Kim Il-Sung is injured and honorably discharged. He returns to the United States and relocates the family to Los Angeles' growing Koreatown in 1943. With a government grant, Kim Il-Sung opens up a small butcher shop in Koreatown, and eventually renounces the Marxist politics that were his mainstay in Korea and the Soviet Union, instead becoming an ardent anti-communist.

Kim Il-Sung's oldest child, Kim Jong-il, adapted well to life in the United States. He began college in 1960, majoring in political economy with a minor in business management at the University of California in Los Angeles. It was here that the younger Kim got his first taste of American politics while working for the Presidential campaign of Richard Nixon. Despite Nixon's loss in the fall, Kim Jong-il, who by know was going by his Americanized name of 'John', became active within the Young Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom groups on campus. He officially became a member of the Republican Party in 1961 and helped organize the local segment of Barry Goldwater's 1964 Presidential campaign on his own campus and became familiar with Republican Party leaders in his area by this time.

Graduating in 1964, John enlisted in the military to 'fight Marxism on the front lines' in Viet Nam. His military exploits were less than stellar, but he was back from the front by 1968 and declared his candidacy for the House of Representatives in his home district at the young age of 27. Helped in part by the Republican wave that year, John would be elected to the House by a modest margin, and would enter the House with high expectations for the Nixon Presidency as a stalwart conservative Republican.

He was, however, to be disappointed by Nixon, and found himself agitating against the administration on domestic and foreign policy, which he saw as weak on the part of the Nixon administration. He began to build a support base around himself in the House of young conservative Congressmen to drive out more moderate Republican legislators, and effort which backfired with the Democratic landslide in the 1970 midterm elections. Nevertheless, John was re-elected by a larger margin than in 1968, and declared his intention to support Senator John Ashbrook over President Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972. Although Ashbrook eventually lost to Nixon, he would go on to support Nixon over McGovern in the general election, and was elected Republican Policy Chair in the House following the 1972 general election and Nixon's landslide victory.

John Kim briefly considered seeking a Senate seat in 1974 or 1976 but ultimately reneged on this to expand his power base in the House of Representatives. He opposed the nomination of Gerald Ford for Vice President and of Nelson Rockefeller later for Vice President, preferring instead a conservative nominee for those spots. He frequently clashed with the Ford administration over policy matters, and would endorse California Governor Ronald Reagan early on in the 1976 Presidential Primary against Ford. Ford would win, but not without having to move to the right to secure his nomination. Ford would go on to lose the Presidential election to Jimmy Carter in 1976, while Kim would win the House Republican leadership, cementing the control of the conservative wing of the Republican Party in the House.

Following the failure of the Carter administration to do much of anything in the late seventies, a Republican wave would make Kim Speaker of the United States House of Representatives following the 1978 midterm elections. The first Republican Speaker since Martin would have much hay to make of the Carter administration, and with it's legislative proposals would enact many far-reaching cuts and military spending increases that the President vehemently opposed. Were it not for a campaign finance scandal in 1979 and subsequent hatred of Kim by party moderates, Kim might well have challenged Carter in the upcoming general election rather than resign his post. He would not be gone for long, though.

Beaten but not defeated, Kim would serve as a high level adviser for the Reagan campaign in 1980, and was briefly considered as a running mate for Reagan in the general election. However, with things going the way that Reagan wanted and Kim plotting his own political revival, things diverged and George Bush was named Vice Presidential nominee. Reagan and Bush would go on to defeat Carter and Mondale handily in the 1980 Presidential election.

Kim would win a contest for RNC Chair in 1980, and orchestrated the Republican landslide that year perfectly. With the campaign finance scandal that knocked him out of office a year earlier out of the way, Kim prepared for another go at politics. In 1982, he was elected to the United States Senate from California, bucking the national Democratic trend. He became a key ally of the Reagan administration in enacting tax cuts and military spending, but soon became impatient with even the conservative Reagan administration, which he thought was selling out to liberal Democrats and 'Marxist' forces. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1988, coinciding with the election of George Bush as President.

In 1991, following the sudden death of George Bush's Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney, Kim was nominated for the post and became the nation's Secretary of Defense. His stunning performance as Sec. Defense during the Gulf War made him even more of a larger than life figure in American politics, and Presidential speculation continued. With a coup in the Soviet Union knocking out reformism from under the table in 1991, he became even more prominent with his cadre of neoconservative Republican Pentagon operatives.

In 1992, George Bush chose John Kim as his running mate to replace Dan Quayle. Bush and Kim won the election despite the bad economy in large part because of the continued threat of the Soviet Union looming in the distance. As 1993 unfolded, trouble arose in the U.S.S.R. that largely disrupted the state and lead to a period of unhinged violence known as the 'Second Red Terror', which was condemned by both President Bush and Vice President Kim. The response to the crisis by the United States was to help promote groups that were trying to uproot the existing government, something that was met in retaliation with the planting of a suitcase bomb in 1994 that killed President Bush and half of the cabinet.

On July 8, 1994, John Kim became President of the United States. His first action was to order immediate retaliation against the Soviets with airstrikes into Soviet territory targeted at the leadership responsible for the death of the President and the cabinet. The public overwhelmingly supported these measures, and showed their approval by giving Kim a Republican supermajority in Congress in the midterm elections. Governing largely by executive order for the time being, Kim was given assistance with the passage of strong anti-communist and anti-terrorist laws that consolidated and created a national security state within the Presidency itself. By mid-1995, with his approval rating in the high seventies, Kim had mustered enough support to have personally forced the removal of the former Soviet government responsible for the slaying of President Bush, leading to the establishment of a new regime in Russia.

In late 1995 however, a terrorist attack at a speaking event where Kim was present (blamed on anti-globalist, pro-former Soviet protesters) made the President immobile for sometime, allowing Vice President Phil Crane to pass legislation further consolidating the power of the Presidency to regulate national security. With Kim's triumphant return in 1996, he promised 'an end to terrorism and socialism the world over', and began covertly funding liberation movements in China, Viet Nam, Laos, and Cuba. He would win re-election in 1996 (and would carry every state in the union minus the District of Columbia) handily and would increase the margins of his rubber stamp Congress significantly.

The first full term of President Kim would focus on expanding the President's power to regulate speech and assembly in the name of national security. Numerous acts were passed, supported by the Congress and upheld by the conservative Supreme Court, that significantly curtailed both rights in the name of national security. Police presence was stepped up and CCTV cameras became virtually ubiquitous. By 1997, Kim had completely consolidated his power in the Presidency and had eliminated most forms of domestic dissent, becoming a dictator de facto. The 1998 midterms saw few Democrats re-elected as massive voter fraud brought the attention of the United Nations. Kim, as leader of the GOP, proposed in 1999 the merging of the Republicans and Democrats into a single 'American Party' to promote national unity and purpose, something that was accepted by all but a small number of Democrats, who found themselves indicted for 'corruption' or the like very soon anyway.

The 1999-2000 'American campaign' launched by President Kim sought to weed out 'anti-American' elements within all facets of life, essentially acting as a far-right purge of 'undesirable elements' in society. 'Liberty Camps' for re-education purposes were set up for the first time in 2000, though they weren't readily used until after the Cuban War, which would begin in 2000 as a response to the Elian Gonzales Affair.

Following bloody fighting for much of 2000 and 2001, Cuba would be 'liberated' by the United States and subsequently annexed as the nation's 51st state. President Kim, having won re-election unanimously in 2000 (the 22nd Amendment was repealed in 1999) used popularity stemming from the war to purge more undesirable elements at home. Around the same time, the American economy began to contract as a result of the economic policies adopted by the Kim administration, though the Department of Homeland Security made sure that no one actually knew that this was the case.

In 2002, Canada announced that it had successfully enriched uranium and would begin producing nuclear weapons in lieu of increasingly hostile relations with the United States. President Kim immediately recalled the United States' ambassador to Canada and denounced Canada at the United Nations for warmongering and trying to raise tensions with the United States for no apparent reason. The United States called Canada's bluff when it tested a nuclear weapon in October 2002, sending troops over the borders for the first time since the war of 1812.

The Canadian War (2002-2006) was the bloodiest conflict on the North American continent since the American Civil War, with hundreds of thousands dead as American troops, missiles, tanks, and ships hurried across the border and shelled the Canadian nation. Few attacks hit the United States, but those that did became a general excuse for the United States to engage in criminal war. Canada would capitulate in August of 2006 and would be incorporated as 13 new American states the following year.

With Canada and Cuba 'liberated' from socialism (the Canadian health care system was summarily privatized as soon as the surrender was signed), President Kim resigned himself to trying to rebuild the stagnant American economy with a 'military-first' policy. This policy was widely credited with making the fiscal situation of the United States worse, not better, in the international community, which by this time had foregone the dollar in favor of the Euro.

A military strike on Mexico in 2008, ostensibly to stop the influence of drug cartels in the United States, lead to international condemnation once more and the resignation of the United States from the United Nations and NATO, demonstrating this with a strike on cartel production centers in Northern Mexico, which was to be occupied by the United States 'indefinitely' as a result of 'Mexican incompetence'.

As his old age begins to wear on him, President Kim has made his decision as of late as to who will succeed him in the Presidency should he die in the near future. As such, he has nominated his youngest son, Ian Kim, to the Vice Presidency in preparation for his anointing as POTUS one day...
 
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