WI Inverted Korea. South becomes Communist, North becomes Capitalist.

Imagine, if you will, a scenario where the Soviets and Americans help liberate the Korea Peninsula, but the Soviets take notice of the South Chinese Sea... Knowing that the Soviets wanted to have access to a warm water port for their existence, they then decide to go and take the South for their own, as well as the Americans take notice of the rich coal fields in the mountains of the North?

What if, the South then becomes Communist due to the help of the Soviets, and then decide to attack the North, and invade them successfully? The Korean War just goes differently, with the Americans destroying Seoul, rather than Pyongyang...

What would the implications be in such a scenario? Would there be a Third World War after the first one? Would the North be successfully ingrained with Capitalism? Would the South be just as vengeful to the North and the Americans, as the North is to the South and the Americans right now?
 

Md139115

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The problem with such a scenario is borders. North Korea borders China, Russia, and South Korea. South Korea only borders North Korea and the seas. Whoever controls the seas around South Korea (and with ANY POD after Japan’s unconditional surrender, that “whoever” is going to be the US), and is allied to the North can strangle the South to death easily. The North? Not unless your name is Douglas MacArthur and someone gave you the keys to where they keep the nukes.
 
Only way you can get capitalist North Korea and communsit South Korea would be if China was capitalist and Japan was communist. And the latter could be the result of the USSR
 
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