• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    A united Korea may be one of the positive side effects of America pooping its pants and deteriorating into a has-been world power. China will have to become World Police, unless it autocrats its way into wasteland as well, but if China can set an example and take a few steps elevating liberty, it could then unseat the Kim family, and allow Korea to just be a nice high-tech industrialized nation littered with chibi animal avatars.

    Because DPRK is just a mess. There’s also the possibility that China facilitates an invasion of South Korea by North Korea, but Kim Il Sung’s grandchildren are unlikely to be as pro-Chinese culture as he was, and zombie rulers can only have so much influence.

    Or China can just annex the whole thing, which would be a dick move and expensive and result IRA like troubles (e.g. a decades long sabotage and terror campaign from an internal pro-Korea resistance.) The Daughters of Queen Min, if I were writing the story.

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    These lines are not straight enough, they appear to follow already established administrative borders. I propose a straight line that completely ignores all this. I think that is the only sensible solution.

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      7 hours ago

      lol … Polka Dot Korea

      Then again … isn’t that known as electoral districts in the United States

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        No we do fractal districts. They get ever more detailed as you zoom in to them. Their border length is theoretically infinite.

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    It would surely be much more peaceful. Let’s just re-draw the borders and leave everything else. Just look at them spooning lovingly.

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    20 hours ago

    What if it’s upper and lower Korea? Everything above the average elevation of Korea is upper, the rest is lower

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    22 hours ago

    How about a North/South Korea, and an East/West Korea? All four quadrants meet at Panmunjom. You can cross on the diagonal, but never a row or column.

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      22 hours ago

      We should simply send Japan in to take over the island

      That’s not a problematic thing to say, right? No historical reason why it would make Koreans incredibly angry?

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      21 hours ago

      An unorthodox way to correct the geographical travesty of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe being less than 200 metres from creating the world’s only international quadripoint