Siberian AU

This AU should be a lot more believable. I took aces advice and created a future AU, which was much easier and much mo believable.

In 2013, North Korea was in turmoil. After the death of Kim Jong Il and the take over of his son, Kim Jong Un, the country began to rapidly deteriorate. There were several coup attempts and the government began to execute anyone that was even remotely thought to be connected. With rogue factions running amok and the government resuming long range missile tests, the US began deploying ABM assets from Japan and Hawaii. On a cool day in September, an extremist faction of the North Korean Army broke in and highjacked a long range missile facility, intending to launch an Unha-4 Rocket, a more developed version of the Unha-3 that massively failed in 2012, hastily fitted with a stolen nuclear weapon at Japan. The world collectively crapped its pants. With its finger on the button (literally) the US waited for the launch. At 6:18 PM on September 9th, 2013 a rocket was launched from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. Right as the Guided Missile Cruiser Shiloh was about to launch an SM-3 to intercept the missile, am interesting thing happened, the Unha-4 exploded about 1 minute after launch. The Nuclear warhead that had been hastily fitted was never recovered.

Although the missile launch failed, the world, especially South Korea, was not going to let North Korea run rampant, especially a nuclear-armed North Korea. Economic Sanctions had repeatedly failed, so the South Korean government put forward a much more drastic plan, an invasion entitled Operation Red Phoenix. It called for air strikes to disable all known North Korean missile sites and air bases followed by a joint force of US and South Korean divisions crossing the border and seizeing all major North Korean cities within a week. After that, the UN would start pumping in aid. The UN promptly rejected the plan, still convinced that the situation would work itself out. After waiting a year without the situation improving at all, the South Korean government launched Operation Red Phoenix. The US and the UN did not participate in the actual military action, although they did not complain or try to stop it. The South Korean Army met very little resistance. Once it reached Pyonyang, it discovered that the remains of the DPRK Government had fled to parts unknown. Once the South Korean Military reached the border with China, the UN did begin to send aid to North Korea.

The South Korean Government made Seoul the capital of the new Democratic Republic of Unified Korea and began to rebuild the North. Thanks to the massive influx of workers, this went rather quickly. By 2017, what was North Korea had become a very industrialized region. The economy of the DRUK had become the second largest in Asia, rivaled only by China. During these four years, the Korean military had fallen into complete shambles. With no perceived enemy left, the process of keeping the military armed with the most current weapons was considered too expensive. This changed rapidly in 2018 when China, becoming more and more belligerent, began to position more and more troops on the border between the DRUK and Herself. The DRUK Government began a massive rearmament and expansion program, updating and expanding its armed forces with both foreign and local equipment.

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Korean AU

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I don't know lad ... North Korea have pretty big army, maybe not "super" modern like south but still impressive fighting force. But I'm not good at asian geo military theatre.

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I thinking along the lines that while they have a large military, they don't have the supplies to effectively use it. Tanks can't run without fuel and guns can't shoot without ammunition. Most of the North Korean Army would probably be happy just to have food. The only real thing that I think I didn't account for was the fact that the North Koreans have nuclear weapons, and those would most certainly be used if the South attacked. I really don't have any answers for why those wouldn't be used? Got any ideas?

North Korean armed forces are probably heavy indoctrinated and will fight hard against agressors. This is a closed country, party fanatics ect: Even without fuel, food they will fight ... and there is a old friend ... Golden Dragon in north.

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I'm pretty sure that the Chinese don't really like DPRK that much at present.

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By golden dragon, I assume you mean the Chinese. Like Blackbuck said, the Chinese aren't even on speaking terms, let alone willing to help the North Koreans. I don't know how right you are about the indoctrination, but most of the army's soldiers are only serving because it's mandatory. Also, its hard to fight an invader when your own civilian population doesn't back you. I'm sure that if given the choice of either being fed or supporting the government that starved them, they would chose food every time. The South Korean Military also enjoys a vast technological edge when compared to their Northern counterparts

I'd say the North Korean, like in 1950, invade South Korea, heavy fighting and all that, but the technological superiority as well as the starving masses of North Koreans, make it impossible for the North to win and so, the lost and South Korea unifying the country.

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Like Novice said, I think that even if the North Koreans had the balls to try invade the South, they wouldn't make it more than a few miles past the DMZ. The big "what if" is the pudgy little nutcase up in Pyongyang. If he's anything like his father, he's not nuts, but he's damn close to it. Put a couple of Nukes in his hands, saddle him up with the pressure of not wanting to lose a war with the south, and he would probably use them, with disastrous consequences. Problem is, I can't come up with a good scenario in which he would have a good reason not to use them.

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