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Recently, I've been working on a draft for my first alternate history timeline here on this site, yet I wanted to see if my ideas were, at all, plausible. Additionally, I thought I'd also put this here just in case there was something I missed in my writing.

In 1950, The Soviet delegation walked out of the United Nations (UN) over their refusal to recognize the People's Republic of China as the holder of the Chinese seat on the UN Security Council, effectively causing the USSR to boycott the UN and its functions. During the outbreak of the Korean War in June and early July of 1950, the Security Council passed some key resolutions that demanded the North Koreans withdraw behind the 38th parallel, cease their invasion of South Korea, and authorize international assistance to end this invasion.

So, say the Soviet Union, for some reason, decides not to boycott the UN, whether it be out of political pragmatism, sudden and unwarranted abandonment of Mao Zedong and the entirety of Red China, foresight as to what might happen, or simply anything else.

How would this change the Korean War? If this causes the North Koreans to ultimately win and unify Korea in the early 1950s, how would this affect the United States, aside from the heavy unpopularity of Truman and a bigger Red Scare? What about Korea as a whole?
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