Korean re-Unification after end of Cold War

2003 Bush orders the disarming of Shia militias in Iraq.

2004 The situation begins to deteriorate. US casualties rise rapidly. Iran increases covert aid to militias. US & Iran get into a war of words.

2004 October - US launches air strikes get against Iran.

2004 November - Kerry narrows wins the US Presidential election. Pledges a new policy in Iraq.

2005-2008 US casualties in Iraq continue to rise, peaking at 100+ per week. Casualty-averse US forces eventually lose control of major cities, retreating to armed camps in the countryside.

Meanwhile Kerry improves relations with the DPRK (North Korea). DPRK agrees to forgo missile and nuclear weapons development and exports (it actually continues development covertly) in return for large amounts of food and economic aid. Significant parts of the economic aid are in fact used to improve the armed forces and purchase high technology weapons from Russia and China.

Outraged by high taxes, national healthcare plan, economic aid to "enemy states" such as Gadaffi's Libya and North Korea, and the unfolding disaster in Iraq - Libertarian/isolationist wing gradually gains ascendency in the Republican party - with quid pro quos to the religious right.

2008 November - Ron Paul becomes President, elected to implement flat taxes, massive cuts to US government, and withdrawal of all US forces from overseas bases within 24 months.

2008-2011 Major economic dislocation in the US with massive growth in some sectors of the economy, and some areas of the country, and a crash in other sectors and areas. Riots in many major US cities. US becomes increasingly inwardly focused due to these preoccupations and withdrawal from overseas entanglements.

2011 June - North Korea launches a massive surprise attack across the 38th parallel "in pursuit of fascist bandits". Without US support, supplies or air-support, South Korea forces are unable to hold their own and are forced back. They retreat into pockets protecting the country's major cities, including Seoul.

US refuses ROK (South Korea) plea for assistance.

EU and Japan urge negotiations.

2011 November - Busan and Gunsan pockets fall to North Korean troops. Last major pocket holding out is Seoul.

2011 December - Panic begins to spread in Seoul as food supplies start to run low, and senior military officers begin to air evacuate their families. Morale gradually collapses.

2011 December 25 - North Korean troops enter the center of Seoul, ending the final ROK (South Korean) resistance.

North Korean radio announces that Kim Jong-il died on the battle field winning the final victory. "Our hearts break with sorrow even in this moment of triumph". December 25th is declared the first of seven days of mourning.

2012 January 1 - "A New Year and a New Dawn" announces North Korean radio - Kim Jong-un is declared inaugural President of the Unified Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
 
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Sumeragi

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1993: In March, North Korea threatens to withdraw from the NPT. Facing heavy domestic pressure from Republicans who oppose negotiations with North Korea, President Bill Clinton appoints Robert Gallucci to start a new round of negotiations. After 89 days, North Korea announces it has suspended its withdrawal. (The NPT requires three months notice before a country can withdraw.) In December, IAEA Director-General Blix announces that the agency can no longer provide "any meaningful assurances" that North Korea is not producing nuclear weapons.

12 October 1994: the United States and North Korea signed the "Agreed Framework": North Korea agreed to freeze its plutonium production program in exchange for fuel oil, economic cooperation, and the construction of two modern light-water nuclear power plants. Eventually, North Korea's existing nuclear facilities were to be dismantled, and the spent reactor fuel taken out of the country.
 
An earlier POD (but post Korean War) would be for Kim Il Sung to be ousted in the late 1950s when there was an intraparty revolt that Kim OTL crushed. If he's ousted and the Soviet faction of the Workers Party takes control. They run the country along more traditional Communist grounds, leaving it more open internationally. Then in 1988/1989, pro-democracy protests in S. Korea spread to N. Korea, leading to a reformist leadership coming to power.

The new democratic leaderships in both S. Korea and N. Korea agree to reunify under a new constitution, and at that point the gap between them isn't particularly great. The two peacefully institute a reunification plan and by today the gap between north and south is mostly closed. Seoul, Inchon, and Kaesong are now a combined megalopolis, and Pyongyang is, at 5 million, Korea's second-largest city.

Alternately, have the 1994 crisis result in a war. Kim Il Sung is replaced by a new transitional government under American and S. Korea occupation. A new "Republic of North Korea" is set up under confederal "Korean Council" and a transitional 15-year plan for full reunification.
 
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