What if North Korea Won The Korean War?

[@이동연-c6d]

Honestly, even though the North won the Korean War, Kim Il Sung was unable to seize power and rule the nation as a dynasty because there were four communist parties which opposed Kim the South Korean Labor Party, Yan’an Faction, Kapsan Faction, and Soviet faction but unfortunately, these four factions were brutally purged by Kim Il Sung and his gangs. In this universe, with the help of the Soviet and the China, these four faction formed an alliance to oppose Kim Il Sung’s dictatorship such as personal idolization and they kicked Kim Il Sung out of power and ruled Korea in the Soviet-style. Later, the communist regime of Korea reformed both their economy and politics and they united with Jeju Korea between the '90s and 2000s.

[@rewriting-history]

Thanks for letting me know! I never knew that! Doesn't matter if the Kim dinasty remains or not for the scenario. The domino effect of communism would start in South East Asia

[@이동연-c6d]

@@rewriting-historyYes, that’s true indeed…

[@uhh...1651]

Imagine if that split will cause Korea to become the soviet democracy rather than kicking Kim out of power. That's very unlikely to happen, but it's funny to think about it.

[@Imulti]

0:42 minor mistake. South Korea was not a democracy it was a dictatorship. South Korea became democratic later after the Korean war was already over

[@yokolee5243]

South Korea is shit. Korea has too unify South Koreans chose this bullshit scenario

[@muxijim6442]

Oh yes South Korea, known to be very democratic pre 1980’s Also a very obtrusive technicality, North korea is not comunist. No not only because they are “juche” or basically a monarchy.But because like the Soviet Union they claim to be socialist but ruled by a comunist party.It’s the whole “ReAl CoMmUNisM” hasn’t been tried thing.Which is tecnically true because to be comunist it would require a “stateless and classless society” both of which NK has.

[@rewriting-history]

I see your point, thank you for letting me know. Also yeah South Korea was more authoritarian up until 1960 maybe

[@averageinsanityfan]

Bro made South Korea an Second Taiwan💀 Imagine Third Taiwan(Greece)

[@rewriting-history]

Ayy I'm glad people understand from the thumbnail that South Korea is going to end up like Taiwan

[@averageinsanityfan]

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[@MarxBoi48]

Based lmao

[@Paul2kdj69]

I remember requesting the video on a live stream you made 3 months ago, the wait was worth it for sure!

[@rewriting-history]

Thanks for the idea! Sorry it took me a while, I get a lot of suggestions.

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

2:52 Since you didn't say thousand here, I got a funny mental image of 250 Chinese super soldiers over running the international coalition.

[@rewriting-history]

Oh my god how did I make such a mistake lol! Thanks for pointing it out!

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

@@rewriting-history I can actually see and understand how you and most others here, failed to notice the mistake. It's because of top-down processing done by our brain. When talking about army sizes, the expected number is in the thousands, if not millions, so when we hear "China decided to help and sent 250 troops", our brains already expected the number to be higher, so it autocorrected it for our perception. Because of my autism, I have enhanced perceptual processing, which involves heightened attention to detail and a focus on local rather than global features: paying more attention to individual components of a stimulus rather than relying on the overall context. It really is a gift and a curse to be able to catch anything out of the ordinary. Since, I can't focus on the bigger picture, catch on to what people are saying, but I also am able to spot my own mistakes better.

[@zayedbinimran957]

@@rewriting-history it was more like 2.5 million troops sent by china

[@simonpetrikov3992]

I’m laughing too hard at this

[@micahistory]

very interesting idea. This idea is surprisingly underrated in the alternate history community

[@julianpignat9095]

thank ou foe your simple presentation of why and how it happend

[@rewriting-history]

@@julianpignat9095 glad you liked it!

[@이동연-c6d]

Since this video is about the North Korea, I want to see the video that what if the North Korea involve the Sino-Soviet conflict as a Soviet side.

[@rewriting-history]

I will do more videos regarding the split very soon actually. What if it resulted in a war and what if it never happened

[@이동연-c6d]

⁠@@rewriting-historyOh really?! That’s wonderful! And I want to see that Soviet(including Mongolia and Warsaw Pact) and North Korea invade China and took some of their lands in that scenario.

[@germancat429]

The coins you show are cool, I’d like it if you kept showing them in your videos

[@rewriting-history]

Thank you, I try to show when relevant in most videos. Soon I will do an entire livestream, where I show all of my coins

[@stargazer-elite]

Nice video A nice balance between the side of pure chaos with pictures and gifs and the maps and text

[@rewriting-history]

Thank you very much! Will continue doing this style

[@greeneanimations6422]

Very cool! A lot of the Cold War focus is dragged away from the Korean War and put on Vietnam and Europe. It’s very pleasant to see some focus put on the Koreas!

[@rechtech5474]

Great video

[@rewriting-history]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@princeoffear1764]

Thanks for your hardwork to make the all of interested video keep going! support from Thailand 🇹🇭

[@rewriting-history]

Much appreciated! Love from Bulgaria!

[@MohabWali08]

i see this video as a big improvement to the style of the channel in a lot of stuff like it's 18 minutes (Not long not short) and it has very good visuals

[@rechtech5474]

8:58 that coin is as old as my dad😂

[@rewriting-history]

I have some really old coins, need to make a dedicated video for it

[@rechtech5474]

@@rewriting-history yeah Its really cool u show ur coins

[@josepsamarrafarre]

I love how the coins give these videos a distinct historical feeling!

[@ChariTheAlternate]

Please continue this

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

2:50 Wasn't the invasion preplaned and Chinese forces guaranteed, if the North desperatelly needed them? I recall reading that Kim Il-Sung first needed Stalin's permission and then asked the Chinese for support, which they reluctantly agreed to, but only if the North is losing hard,

[@Kuricang31]

Sort of. But even if Kim didn't request it, China would still be willing to send troops to fought off the UN coalitions as according to PLA archives, Mao already prepared it's soldiers dressed in North Korean military to be deployed to combat zone at any given time Looks like Macao and Hong Kong had already given enough headaches for Mao to the point that he's desperately trying to make sure that China would not be bordering any additional Western territories 😂😂

[@robe3176]

As a south korean, I see this video interesting

[@rewriting-history]

I would hope to hear your opinion on what you think. Did you like it?

[@Andrew-x3w6i]

Korean*

[@robe3176]

​@@rewriting-historyYes, I liked the video

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks for all your hardwork! Can't wait for this! Suggestion: What if the sixtus affair succeded?

[@imember7375]

what if italy won the first italo-ethiopian war

[@alphapollete7733]

Bro, how tf do u have a NK coin, thats a real treasure u have there

[@rewriting-history]

Yeah right, especially the first edition.

[@rudmillahnowrin9151]

Great 👍🏿

[@rewriting-history]

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RevoluitonaryTV]

Dude this is way too long of a waiting time!

[@Confederate_Mapping]

You should've said dongs instead of coins lmao 8:57

[@ChariTheAlternate]

That's the best timeline

[@rewriting-history]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@yazovgaming]

NORTH KOREA, BEST KOREA!

[@void_fruit212]

If i learned anything from drew Durnil it is that north korea best korea 🫡

[@rewriting-history]

Yeah same here

[@mappingshaman5280]

What if archduke franz karl von hapsburg, the father of franz joseph died in 1820 and his father and brother too, leading to austria being inherited by napoleon II?

[@TrainEnthusiast2009]

Than no Korean drama

[@SNCY29]

I swear these videos come out fast 😅

[@rewriting-history]

Yeah I'm a machine, and I'm even just starting!

[@SNCY29]

@@rewriting-history wow. I wanna make a channel and have some video ideas. But rn I’ve got really bad intertia . Any motivation?

[@TheDarkCeratosaurus]

​@@rewriting-historyhow do you make these videos so fast if i may ask?

[@ClovarChillin]

Bro never fails to flex his coin Collection

[@PizzaChess69]

The South was not "democratic". If anything, it was more like Spain under Franco.

[@Kuricang31]

But more ruthless and politically unstable. At least Spain's economy under Franco was seeing better numbers than South Korea is until it was ruled by Park Chung-Hee

[@BlackpilledNihilist]

1950s Spain was a far better place to live in compared to 50s South korea

[@JCEurovisionFan1996]

Now, what would happen if South Korea won the Korean War?

[@LittleRamsies]

Here a more realistic timeline to what would’ve happened if North Korea 🇰🇵 had won the war in Korea (this is is just IMO though) 1950: Korea is unified under 🇰🇵 1951: China 🇨🇳 Invades Taiwan 🇹🇼 but the USA 🇺🇸 comes to defend it. The Sino American War (1951 - 1954) 1954: China 🇨🇳 and The USA 🇺🇸 declare a ceasefire then China spares Taiwan. The Vietnam War (1955 - 1973) 1968: The USA 🇺🇸 Invades North Vietnam 🇻🇳 then China 🇨🇳 intervenes to push U.S troops back to the 17ht parallel. 1973: China, U.S, North & South Vietnam declared a ceasefire signing an armistice officially ending the war in Vietnam keeping the Vietnamese nation divided to this day. 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, & 2000s: Korea 🇰🇵 became a poor but still a powerful nation on earth with the strongest military behind Russia 🇷🇺 and China 🇨🇳 also depends space technology stuff by the end of the 21st century Korea 🇰🇵 will officially collapse and be annexed by China 🇨🇳 both China and Korea reunite together. In conclusion: “ if North Korea 🇰🇵 Won the War “ Russia 🇷🇺 China 🇨🇳 Korea 🇰🇵 Pakistan 🇵🇰 Iran 🇮🇷 & North Vietnam 🇻🇳 are the Best Allied Friends ❤️🤝 “ if South Korea 🇰🇷 Won the War “ USA 🇺🇸 Japan 🇯🇵 Korea 🇰🇷 Taiwan 🇹🇼 Philippines 🇵🇭 India 🇮🇳 Israel 🇮🇱 UK 🇬🇧 Australia 🇦🇺 New Zealand 🇳🇿 & South Vietnam Are the Best Allied Friends ❤️🤝 “ in the real timeline “ North Korea 🇰🇵 and South Korea 🇰🇷 Today still divided… and will probably never reunite for now maybe is for the best.

[@00martoneniris86]

What if the French monarchy was restored after the French lost the Franco Prussian war

[@SANP76234]

Then USA would be desperate to keep vietnam in their hands

[@erasin8844]

2:54 the international troops were overwhelmed by 250 troops?

[@rewriting-history]

forgot to say thousand lol

[@ArmandoIIIEspinosa]

That mean, there’s no Cambodia Vietnam war. The More Liking , I Jeju Korea Will be annex Japan If that’s United States don’t want unify Korea

[@rewriting-history]

Vietnam war would still happen, but would end before the US could get too much involved

[@JetHistorian-vv5ji]

Bro if they cant do a naval invasion why not just use paratroopers IF YOU GOT NORTH KOREAN UNITED KOREAN CHINNESE AND SOVIET PLANES WHY NOT!?!?!

[@stargazer-elite]

Now to preserve the balance I suggest what if South Korea won

[@randomguy6152]

theres no way i see korea with its own taiwan im sure this will be great

[@rewriting-history]

at least it's an original idea

[@randomguy6152]

@@rewriting-history I liked it, if the Chinese hated that we defended 1 Taiwan can't imagine how they'd react at 2

[@blazingblizzard-6894]

Wait a sec, why does the USSR own Dalian?

[@HOI4notsoproplayer]

They occupied it until the 1950s

[@m3c4nyku43]

0:30 Before it was split up (by the USA), there was a short-lived united People's Republic of Korea.

[@legendarygodzilla3577]

There wasn't a united peoples republic of Korea, there was an attempt to create one by rebels, which failed.

[@m3c4nyku43]

@@legendarygodzilla3577 From Wikipedia itself, your highest go-to source possibly: The People's Republic of Korea (PRK; Korean: 조선인민공화국) was a short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II. It was proclaimed on 6 September 1945, as Korea was being divided into two occupation zones, with the Soviet Union occupying the north and the United States occupying the south. Based on a network of people's committees, it presented a program of radical social change. In the south, the US military government outlawed the PRK on 12 December 1945. In the north, the Soviet authorities took over the PRK by installing pro-Soviet Korean communists such as Kim Il-sung into positions of power and incorporated it into the political structure of the emerging Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). TL;DR: 1) It was a short-lived provisional government 2) It was banned by USA who controlled and still controls the South (their military is under DIRECT control of USA even today, and the armistice was signed between North Korea and USA, NOT North Korea and South Korea) and USA installed a dictator in the South with no elections that would go on and have massive repressions of population even against centrists (which was one of the reasons why the North attacked the South later on). This is also why they dropped the "People's" part, because it was no longer of the people, it belonged to US interests from then on. 3) Despite Wikipedia's usual biased language, the North has worked with it, and had elections and surprise surprise, the founding father of the country, the person who lead the Liberation of his country won. Must surely be biased according to western capitalists. That is why they added "Democratic" to that name, because they had elections unlike the South for many decades. And after the South had elections, EVERY president was forced to step down due to corruption scandals (except the last one who had friendly relations with thw North).

[@m3c4nyku43]

@@legendarygodzilla3577 From Wikipedia itself, your highest go-to source possibly: The People's Republic of Korea (PRK; Korean: 조선인민공화국) was a short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II. It was proclaimed on 6 September 1945, as Korea was being divided into two occupation zones, with the Soviet Union occupying the north and the United States occupying the south. Based on a network of people's committees, it presented a program of radical social change. In the south, the US military government outlawed the PRK on 12 December 1945. In the north, the Soviet authorities took over the PRK by installing pro-Soviet Korean communists such as Kim Il-sung into positions of power and incorporated it into the political structure of the emerging Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). TL;DR: 1) It was a short-lived provisional government 2) It was banned by USA who controlled and still controls the South (their military is under DIRECT control of USA even today, and the armistice was signed between North Korea and USA, NOT North Korea and South Korea) and USA installed a dictator in the South with no elections that would go on and have massive repressions of population even against centrists (which was one of the reasons why the North attacked the South later on). This is also why they dropped the "People's" part, because it was no longer of the people, it belonged to US interests from then on. 3) Despite Wikipedia's usual biased language, the North has worked with it, and had elections and surprise surprise, the founding father of the country, the person who lead the Liberation of his country won. Must surely be biased according to western capitalists. That is why they added "Democratic" to that name, because they had elections unlike the South for many decades.

[@m3c4nyku43]

@@legendarygodzilla3577 I tried making this comment twice, but it kept disappearing, probably because I copy-pasted from Wikipedia. Anyway: 1) It was a short-lived provisional government 2) It was banned by USA who controlled and still controls the South (their military is under DIRECT control of USA even today, and the armistice was signed between North Korea and USA, NOT North Korea and South Korea) and USA installed a dictator in the South with no elections that would go on and have massive repressions of population even against centrists (which was one of the reasons why the North attacked the South later on). This is also why they dropped the "People's" part, because it was no longer of the people, it belonged to US interests from then on. 3) Despite Wikipedia's usual biased language, the North has worked with it, and had elections and surprise surprise, the founding father of the country, the person who lead the Liberation of his country won. Must surely be biased according to western capitalists. That is why they added "Democratic" to that name, because they had elections unlike the South for many decades. And after the South had elections, EVERY president was forced to step down due to corruption scandals (except the last one who had friendly relations with thw North).

[@hanzoofoasisworld7953]

What if South Korea won the Korean War?

[@Sander_van_de_Reep]

There was a communist uprising in Jeju so what would have happened with that uprising? Would it be taken down?

[@m3c4nyku43]

0:35 The North held elections and the South didn't and instead was ruled by the US-installed dictator. This is why from the "People's Republic of Korea" the North part added "Democratic" to their name and why the South part didn't (and removed "People's" from their name because it was associated with left-wing movements).

[@Kuricang31]

Election but it's all just government illusion to the people showing that they had the power over the government while in fact they are not. Kim's appointment had probably been predicted from the moment he was educated by the Comintern The only thing that is good about Kim Il-Sung is that his rule over North Korea was politically stable and prosperous, something that his son and grandchild still struggling to achieve. Also he succeeded in uniting the people while South Koreans had to massacred it's own people left and right, especially in Jeju 😁

[@eleniparaskevaidou5515]

YOU FORGOT GREECE

[@Darker_Editrn]

How the fuçk did u get a North Korean coin😮

[@rewriting-history]

I know, I'm insane. It's very rare, as its from the creation of the country. Right now you can easily get their currency in circulation, but not the old ones

[@Darker_Editrn]

@@rewriting-history damn lucky i want one

[@realbaron5714]

A world without Samsung, Hyundai, Kia, Daweoo and K-POP, too bad. You can made another video but what if the south won.

[@ILOVEJAPAN223]

They might have still existed In Japan

[@00martoneniris86]

What if the Nederlands colonized Australia new holland and nieuwe Zeeland instead of Britain?

[@eidoneverchoosen1171]

Will this implys the USA dose not get involved in the korean war. Which is good cause then American lives are not lost ot wounded in another foreign war that we should not had been involved in. Plus the koerans in the south at the time if they wanted communism then its the government and society they deserve then.

[@rewriting-history]

You're on the right track, but now quite the idea I came up with! You will see it soon!

[@zenktwtPH1]

Finally no more bts😂

[@Robert-xo3yi]

i like your accent

[@rewriting-history]

Thank you very much! I wouldn't have expected people to like it lol

[@Iter_fire_guy]

Best Korea

[@rewriting-history]

Agree

[@00martoneniris86]

What if the ottomans won the Battle of Ankara

[@00martoneniris86]

What if the British and French and me by American colonial empires collapsed after or when the war happened World war one? What if India revolted against the British when World war one or two happened What if the ottoman caliphate sultanate dident join the central powers in World war one and staid neutral 😐 What if Bavaria united Germany

[@eidoneverchoosen1171]

Well the USA have to annex Canada then in the power vacuum of the british empire and the British colonies wold end up in the USA spere of influence.

[@ArmandoIIIEspinosa]

Or Jeju Korea Like east Germany.

[@rewriting-history]

So I do the reverse and let the South win?

[@fredrikjonsson-bj5ru]

Coins are cool do it

[@ratisgood4448]

North Korean Republic Of Iowa

[@konnoroesterblad8398]

Jeju Korea best korea??

[@rewriting-history]

I even called them in the video Jeju Korea! So many people are getting the reference and it makes me so happy!

[@ivanaladic6133]

epic

[@TheEmperorYTP]

Fredda batukam

[@kuroazrem5376]

The South wasn't technically democratic yet.

[@rewriting-history]

Yes, maybe even North Korea was more liberal in that time-period, but still the south was a US ally, so they became democratic