The challenge, with a POD after 1900, is to have a war on the Korean peninsula where the American army is involved in a big way.
I did read a timeline where the Koreas were split where they did happen and it ended in a draw. The South was a rival to Japan but the North was run by a bunch of evil guys named Kim who were seen as gods like the Japanese Emperor(with racial supremacy as doctrine by law).Korea is locked behind the Sea of Japan well within Tokyo's sphere of influence: I doubt the US could get there without heading the long way round via Europe and all across Russia. If the Manchurian Railway Crisis escalated into some sort of open war, you might get some form of American involvement, most likely supporting the Russians to nip Japan's fledgling superpower status in the bud.
Yeah, I read that, "Fire and Fury" I think it was called. I found the ending pretty shocking though, and in my opinion it is quite unrealistic as a TL overall. Korea is too small a nation for any division to effectively work. A 'North' and 'South' Korea wouldn't have the population to survive as independent states, and would be little more than colonies of greater regional powers. Heck, even a united Korea has been to all intents and purposes a Japanese colony for the last century, so a rump North Korea closely aligned with a resurgent China, and yet somehow still pursuing its own foreign policy and developing an independent neutronic-weapons programme is borderline ASB.I did read a timeline where the Koreas were split where they did happen and it ended in a draw. The South was a rival to Japan but the North was run by a bunch of evil guys named Kim who were seen as gods like the Japanese Emperor(with racial supremacy as doctrine by law).
I did read a timeline where the Koreas were split where they did happen and it ended in a draw. The South was a rival to Japan but the North was run by a bunch of evil guys named Kim who were seen as gods like the Japanese Emperor(with racial supremacy as doctrine by law).
No, there was no split. The idea of Karl Marx being taken seriously by an actual country, especially a conservative Orthodox monarchy, makes no sense.Yeah, a bunch of Kims. Isn’t everyone in Korea named Kim something? And I wonder if Seoul was split a la Berlin. It would be in a decent spot for it.
Really, with Japan the main force in Asia and China a relative backwater, the idea of anyone giving enough of a shit about Korea to go to war and divide it up is ASB. I mean, unless fascism became the rage in east Asia beyond what we have in Japan, since there’s nothing else to base a society that sadistic off of.
You might as well have them be like that ASB timeline where Russia adopts a system based off some deadbeat German dude who floated pie-in-the-sky nonsense about seizing the means of production and withering the state away - seriously, the fuck? And Russia, the place that’s so dedicated to the monarchy that they make the British look like hardcore republicans? That was a fun read but not realistic in the slightest.
A 'North' and 'South' Korea wouldn't have the population to survive as independent states, and would be little more than colonies of greater regional powers.