WI: United Korea

What if the USSR and the USA never partitioned Korea into two states? What a POD might lead to such scenario? How will the United Korea fare looks like? More like South Korea or a Marxist-Leninst/Maoist state? What would be the future implications?
 

BlondieBC

Banned
Not partitioning means either the USSR gets it all or the USA. If the USSR gets it, then it goes Stalinist with the Kim's in charge. After the fall of the USSR, there is a good chance it adopts Chinese like reforms. If the USA gets it all in its zone, we set it up like we did South Korea. But without the war, it probably has a smaller military and a smaller economy. It may also have good relations with China without a war to sour the history.
 

Sumeragi

Banned
If the USSR gets it, then it goes Stalinist with the Kim's in charge.
Most likely no. Kim fought his way to power based on the the division itself. There has been several discussions on the various aspects of DPRK.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=214649
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=224557


Seriously, it really ticks me off how people automatically thinks Kim Il Sung would be control. He was a person who came to power because of the division, and a undivided Korea would undercut most of his power base.
 
Most likely no. Kim fought his way to power based on the the division itself. There has been several discussions on the various aspects of DPRK.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=214649
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=224557


Seriously, it really ticks me off how people automatically thinks Kim Il Sung would be control. He was a person who came to power because of the division, and a undivided Korea would undercut most of his power base.

Well,he would certainly lose all of his influence to the Provisional Government of Korea (assuming their were Communists as American official thought).
 
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