WI the North wins the Korean War?

Let's say North Korea unites the peninsula sometime in the early 1950s during the Korean War. There's no American-backed South Korea after the war. What happens to the Korean government? Without an American presence across their border to rally against, is the government's power weakened? And after the end of the Cold War, do they shift into a lighter-and-softer form of one-party socialist government like Vietnam and China, or do they become democratic and capitalist, like what happened with the Eastern European countries?
 
Alot depends on the way this is achieved. If the United States can't hold the Pusan Perimeter then you are about to see a major crisis of confidence in the
US about the competency of the military, and numerous butterflies, but if it is due to the US simply "giving up" South Korea than I would have bet the fall of
the ROK is remembered mainly as a historical footnote. Barely important in comparision to the fall of the KMT to the CCP in 1949.
 
I guess this means the Soviets (or at least East Germany) might decide to take all of Berlin for their own.
 
It's difficult to say what the north is going to do, since the North keeps messing around with their official backstory, but I would guess from what I knowthat Kim Jong Il will still come to power, and you would still have a bizzare personality cult. I suspect that without the southern threat the military will be less powerfull, and you won't see the economy held back by poorley thought out Songun policies in the more recent era.
 
I guess this means the Soviets (or at least East Germany) might decide to take all of Berlin for their own.
Why? The US still has a large leg up as far as number of deliverable nuclear weapons goes in 1950
and the Soviet's excellent intelligence capabilities mean they know not only that the US has more bombs
but also that the US would likely go to war over the seizure of West Berlin.
 
Maybe things start to look a bit more like Ceaucescu in Romania: without an enemy, ai think the state is going to be much less potent. There will be some insanity, sure.

Assuming the general course of Cold War remained the same (which is unlikely), ai feel like Korea is likely to move into East Asian-style laissez-faire capitalism with command economy capitalist (that is, socialist) gloss.
 
This could be done if the Soviets vetoed UN intervention.

What happens next? Who knows the North seemed more benevolent to many in the South and without hindsight you can see were they're coming from. Also North Korea was a lot economically stable until the 70's if Korea can get even stronger economically I can see some more liberalised thinking.
 
This could be done if the Soviets vetoed UN intervention.
:confused: The Turks were that desperately important?

I suspect that the vast majority of the military forces deployed in South Korea would be deployed there, UN Resolution or no. Sure, the UN imprimatur made it a lot more politically feasible for e.g. the Turks to get on board, and probably made it more palatable to e.g. Canadians. But I suspect we'd have been there (if perhaps not as enthusiastically) and I can't see the US contribution being any less.

So how does this lead to a North Korea win?
 
:confused: The Turks were that desperately important?

I suspect that the vast majority of the military forces deployed in South Korea would be deployed there, UN Resolution or no. Sure, the UN imprimatur made it a lot more politically feasible for e.g. the Turks to get on board, and probably made it more palatable to e.g. Canadians. But I suspect we'd have been there (if perhaps not as enthusiastically) and I can't see the US contribution being any less.

So how does this lead to a North Korea win?

It could have I'm not saying it's in any way certain. However a speedier advance would have done the trick.
 
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