What about all? South-east Korea, South-west Korea, North-east Korea, North-west Korea.
North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead.
Submitted 8 months ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It works for Vietnam and Laos, and. Burma and Thailand.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 months ago
And germany
linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
No joke, I think hypothetically this would disturbance of, and conflict with, wildlife that have come to occupy the DMZ, most troublingly, tigers.
ksigley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly ? Not the stupidest thing I’ve read today…
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
A united Korea may be one of the positive side effects of America pooping its pants and during 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.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
if China can set an example and take a few steps elevating liberty,
Lol
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
China has as great a chance (and as little chance) as anyone else. Kingmakers and would be emperors have to make some serious decisions as their nation grows and develops: Do they go the autocratic dictator route and withhold civil liberties, or do they extend civil liberties outward, so that satellite colonies and conquered territories are more tolerant of imperial rule? History teems with examples of both, often from the same empire in different eras.
It’s not new, from the tolerance of other religions and customs by Xerxes I to the republic of SPQR. Heck, even France tried constitutional monarchy with the Bourbon restoration, so long as the Napoleonic code (defining civil rights and the rule of law) was preserved. Charlie X decided to stop that civil liberties nonsense and the people of France rolled out the guillotines once again.
This is something I bring up as a difference between the Islamic State as a hypothetical to which Islamists aspire to, and the Islamic State as it is practiced in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; the latter clings harshly to Shariah law. Contrast the Iran during the Pahlavi era (the result of famine and revolution forming a new imperial republic) which established a code of civil rights (only US oil interests had to meddle)
China is about to have an opportunity to become the world superpower, or an eastern adversary to Post-NATO Europe, and right now, democracy in the EU and UK are weakened by the same long-term reign of corporatist neoliberal parties (King Log) that are opposed by far-right nationalist movements which are gaining traction… or were until Trump reminded everyone of what fascist autocracy looks like.
If China decides not to develop its humanity and civil liberties game, then those neoliberal parties will last a while longer while drifting to the right, until the nationalist take hold and they have a Big Fat War (not to be confused with WWIII or Nuclear War). But by then, the climate crisis will be extreme enough to make the future too chaotic to predict. This is why China is leading the sustainable energy race (and because Trump kisses the feet of Koch and big oil, the US is reversing course).
This is all backed by the ethics theory of the social contract: So long as the public is comfortable they’ll adhere to the laws of the land and play by the king’s rules. Suffering breeds discontent and organized resistance.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Give this champ a Nobel Prize
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Where in England are you from?
kieron115@startrek.website 8 months ago
Let’s split the difference and have some Brits redraw the lines at random, they’re great at it!
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Babe wake up anew west coast vs east coast beef just dropped.
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
West Korea, best Korea
vane@lemmy.world 8 months ago
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
obviously because Germany should have done North Germany and South Germany
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Again, you mean?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Wtf is that second map?! Krefeld?! Mühlacker?! Eilenburg?! Bad Düben?!
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Oh, so germany is korea now?
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.
1yjgjmmt5988@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Looks similar to Norway and Sweden 😄
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Border needs to be a straight line, as a joke
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
only north korea isn’t working (but it’s not because of the communism ofc, it’s… something completely else, okay? and it isn’t teh rEaL cOmMuNiSm™ anyways, because that would’ve definitely worked)
bss03@infosec.pub 8 months ago
South Korea is OVER so… some problems there, too.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
North Korea doesn’t even claim to be communist. Are you mixing them up with China?
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
north korea also claims to be democratic, that doesn’t mean it’s true
Logical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tbf South Korea has plenty of economic, demographic, and social problems as well. Still miles better than North, but saying that only the North doesn’t work is not really accurate.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
of course south korea has problems as well, but I think one can objectively state that the north doesn’t work, no matter which metric you choose to measure its “success” with
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
How about a striped Korea instead?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
lol … Polka Dot Korea
Then again … isn’t that known as electoral districts in the United States
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
No we do fractal districts. They get infinitely more detailed as you zoom into them.
nomoretrdsssss@lemmings.world 8 months ago
We laugh about things that makes us happy. For some it’s silly cats for some it’s raping kids or redrawing borders without any concern for the local population
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
what projection is this? Looks super distorted
antsu@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
It’s Koreas all the way down.
Dicska@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It would surely be much more peaceful. Let’s just re-draw the borders and leave everything else. Just look at them spooning lovingly.
drmoose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How about stripes?
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Korea the long way.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Looong loooong land
Quik@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Crosspost to !noncrediblediplomacy@sh.itjust.works
jimmux@programming.dev 8 months ago
Can we get some enclaves in there to keep it spicy?
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Love a good enclave.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Worked for Germany /s
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
Well… it did…
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 months ago
Bold move. Next step: gerrymandering Korea.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Instead of a DMZ you will have a urethra, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn!
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Let’s leave the border the same. But just to spice things up, we’ll move all the South Koreans to North Korea and all the North Koreans to South Korea. Then they’ll just swap places every ten years. It will so whimsical!
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Man I wish we could have had your input during peace deals.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Every 10 years the Israelis have to all move to Gaza, and the Gazans get to move into Israel. They trade places every ten years.
someguy3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Long long
manDMZ.mkwt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
NCD is leaking again.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
West Korea Best Korea