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

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Yes

Hard to say. I don't think N. Korea has comfort women, but they have little of anything else

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Xuan12 · 36-40, 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.

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

@Xuan12: Interesting digression, but the Koreans didn't divide themselves; it was the politics of the foreign devils that did that

Xuan12 · 36-40, 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.