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Would N. Korea be better off if the Allies left Asia to the Japanese?

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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
If Asia had been left in the hands of the Japanese, it probably would have been local movements that eventually drove them out. These various groups would be untitled only around repelling the Japanese, and after that task had been accomplished would have no reason to cooperate with one another. Likely China would have made a grab at Korea in the Japanese exodus or shortly thereafter. The result is uncertain, but given that Korea divided itself in the actual timeline, it likely would have done so again in realistic alternative timelines as well.
@Xuan12: Interesting digression, but the Koreans didn't divide themselves; it was the politics of the foreign devils that did that
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP: I think that same dynamic would still be there though. Japanese power in the region probably wouldn't last. Seems likely that the soviets would have supplied arms and support to the rebels, and thereafter expected a say in their politics, which China would likely resent, and Korea would become a flashpoint for this Russian/Chinese conflict, even absent of Western influence.
Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
The Imperial wartime Japanese? God no, they'd be just as bad. Maybe worse.
Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP: I feel like the only way they could've left Asia to the Japanese is if they hadn't attacked Pearl Harbour, Shanghai and the like anyway and drawn the Allies into the Pacific.
So if Japan didn't go to war with the Allies at all, it might not have had the kind of wartime shortages they suffered from, and had a stronger hold on Asia. Nevertheless, I don't think they could possibly have kept them longterm, since the general mistreatment of the Koreans by them would've probably created a rebellion against them, possibly leading to a similarly extremist government to what North Korea has now.
Tbh though, I feel like it was almost inevitable that the Japanese would've gone to war with the Allies eventually. There were too many colonies there at the time, and even if the war was limited in Asia, after it had ended in Europe I can imagine the Russians would still have gone into China eventually, leading to events not dissimilar to our Korean War, although perhaps with the Japanese on the South Korean side.
@Gauntlets28: there are a number of ways the war could have gone very differently. Remember how reluctant the Americas were to get involved before Pearl Harbor? What if Hitler got the bomb? Anyway, the question was a what-if not a how-if
Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP: I like the how-if though... and besides, the how-if can drastically change the what-if.

 
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