DBWI: No Korean Reunification?

What if the North Korean Revolution of 1989 had never removed the Korean Communist Party from power in the North, paving the way for the Korean Reunification of 1992?
 
Besides Korea will be a little more a little more Economic shock prone(much like germany, having to reunify the north and keep update their industry mean a hit for them but at the same time make the koreans like the germans, very pragmatic about market economics and cycle, not for nothing they grow when the rest of asia(except for the titan that is China) was in crisis, Korea was slowly growing thanks to the north and trade with China) the difference will be little, the south will be a economical powerhouse but very depedant of the economical cycle and the north will be other Bielorrussia, depedant of a patron like China)
 
Just a bit of nitpicking here: although the history books give 1992 as the date of the reunification, it wasn't fully complete for years afterwards - and that's probably a good thing. The slow pace of reunification meant that the provinces of the former north could be managed with more care during what was a very sensitive time. Don't forget all the dire warnings that we saw about how it was "a nation under arms" and how easily it could explode.
It also meant that there was time to to work out how to bring the infrastructure of the north up to a comparable standard to the south without bankrupting the entire country. So I think Seoul made the right decision to proceed gradually.
 
Well, the leader of North Korea, Kim Il-sung, was pretty old when the reunification happened. Who would have succeeded him if he had died?
 
This is ASB, the reunification is inevitable, it is only a question of when. It may not be by now in history, but it will happen, it may be bloodier but it will happen.
 
Why are US troops still in Korea after reunification? Their mission has long been accomplished and are they there to show the flag and guarantee stability?
 
Why are US troops still in Germany with the Soviets gone? It's convenient for them to stay, and no one in the country cares enough to ask them to leave.
 
Why are US troops still in Korea after reunification? Their mission has long been accomplished and are they there to show the flag and guarantee stability?

To be fair, after reunification, President Clinton gradually ordered a drawdown of US forces from Korea. Just as well, since Washington doesn't want to antagonize the semi-democratic government in Beijing, which naturally views Korea within its sphere of influence.
 
ASB, Without the USSR the DPRK would crumble within a year or two.
Is there really no way they could've survived? If the revolution had been averted, then there's nothing to say Kim Il Song wouldn't stay in power. But then he was in failing health when he was executed, so he might not have lived long afterwards. But then who would've succeded him? Probably not his idiot son. Has anybody heard of this guy, Kim Jong Il? He was Kim Il Song's son, who ironically enough escaped the post revolutionary purge in the north by defecting to the south. Until he died last year, he was often known as the "Uwe Boll of Korea" and continued to produce and direct "so bad its good" low budget B-movies with obvious Pro-North, Communist appolgist undertones until he died, even though he bankrupted his family in the process.
 
Is there really no way they could've survived? If the revolution had been averted, then there's nothing to say Kim Il Song wouldn't stay in power. But then he was in failing health when he was executed, so he might not have lived long afterwards. But then who would've succeded him? Probably not his idiot son. Has anybody heard of this guy, Kim Jong Il? He was Kim Il Song's son, who ironically enough escaped the post revolutionary purge in the north by defecting to the south. Until he died last year, he was often known as the "Uwe Boll of Korea" and continued to produce and direct "so bad its good" low budget B-movies with obvious Pro-North, Communist appolgist undertones until he died, even though he bankrupted his family in the process.

Yeah, pretty much. Who knows? He might have been the Mitt Romney of North Korea, even!

OOC: Yes, Mitt Romney did win the White House ITTL. I intended for him to be the stand-in for Dubya Bush, 2000 to 2008, only even more disastrous than his pseudo-Texan OTL counterpart. Clinton still won his two terms, though, unless anyone has issues with that.
 
Yeah, pretty much. Who knows? He might have been the Mitt Romney of North Korea, even!

OOC: Yes, Mitt Romney did win the White House ITTL. I intended for him to be the stand-in for Dubya Bush, 2000 to 2008, only even more disastrous than his pseudo-Texan OTL counterpart. Clinton still won his two terms, though, unless anyone has issues with that.
You mean he would've run the nation at the same time as Romney? I don't see that going well. He started out as Propaganda minister, a role he was determined to play until he died apparently. But during the time he was in as Propaganda minister you see a lot of really wierd crap going on. I'm talking kidnapping a South Korean Director and his Actress wife weird. After re-unification, he had to pay them both almost a million in USD settlement. Then he gets into the Seoul B-movie scene, gets mixed up with some wierd east european porn producer that gets him hooked on cocaine, and then he starts churning out shlock, until he dies of an overdose of alchohol and cocaine in 2012. Read the whole thing in a great book by his son Kim Jong Un.
 
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