Is it possible for NK to do that? Can it mean Soviet soldiers stationing near the South Korean border?
BTW this is if Juche ideology doesn't exist at this TL
BTW this is if Juche ideology doesn't exist at this TL
Is it possible for NK to do that? Can it mean Soviet soldiers stationing near the South Korean border?
BTW this is if Juche ideology doesn't exist at this TL
China is in the way... That'll cause problems.
North Korea does have a very thin border with Russia.
I always wondered by China, Mongolia, and North Korea didn't join the Warsaw Pact. Japan, South Korea, and the ANZACs couldn't join NATO for obvious reasons, the communist countries bordered each other.
It would have been interesting to have Chinese troops stationed in Berlin and East German troops on the demilitarized zone...
BTW this is if Juche ideology doesn't exist at this TL
I always wondered by China, Mongolia, and North Korea didn't join the Warsaw Pact. Japan, South Korea, and the ANZACs couldn't join NATO for obvious reasons, the communist countries bordered each other.
It would have been interesting to have Chinese troops stationed in Berlin and East German troops on the demilitarized zone...
Given the Sino-Soviet split, China not joining the Warsaw Pact is rather obvious. There was animousity between Communist China and the Soviet Union since Stalin backed Chiang in the Civil War.
Stalin was too cagey a politican to allow North Korea into the alliance anyways being they very well could touch off a war with the West that he'd suddenly be treaty bound to fight.
Did anyone join the WP out of free will?
Which is your answer why DPRK wouldn't join. It was not a Soviet puppet (thanks to Kim Il Sung).Did anyone join the WP out of free will?
The WP wasn't an alliance like NATO. It was the Soviet Empire plus puppet states.
The main reason was China. Chiang Kai-shek asserted that Mongolia was a part of China. Mao recognized Mongolia as independent but at the same time the Sino-Soviet split made the prospects of incorporation quite unwise. At the same time the USSR was also wary of being seen as an expansionist state. Annexing Mongolia would have not helped that situation and would sour relations with the USA in any case. Tannu Tuva was an exceptional case since absolutely no one (except the USSR and, grudgingly, Mongolia) recognized it and the general territory had long been considered a protectorate of the Russian Empire, not to mention it had a significant Russian population.Mongolia, is very possible. More often I wonder why it was never annexed into the Soviet Union as Tannu Tuva was. Mongolia was a SSR on all but name.
Still, it would all collapse in 1989-90. Both Koreas reunite in 1990-91 and it's party time in Seoul!