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.
North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead.
Submitted 1 day ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day 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?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We should simply send Japan in to take over the island
Already done. Tho idk how that helps the peninsula.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Political compass Korea
Agent641@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Divide it into 9 bits and get alignment Korea.
Skua@kbin.earth 1 day 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
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What if it’s upper and lower Korea? Everything above the average elevation of Korea is upper, the rest is lower
wieson@feddit.org 1 day ago
atlas@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
it’s over, kim! we have the high ground!
UnknownSoul@programming.dev 1 day ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
You guys can be Korea 1, we will be Korea A.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 day 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 20 hours ago
Where in England are you from?
kieron115@startrek.website 1 day ago
Let’s split the difference and have some Brits redraw the lines at random, they’re great at it!
vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
obviously because Germany should have done North Germany and South Germany
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Again, you mean?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Oh, so germany is korea now?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Wtf is that second map?! Krefeld?! Mühlacker?! Eilenburg?! Bad Düben?!
ksigley@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Honestly ? Not the stupidest thing I’ve read today…
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 18 hours ago
What about all? South-east Korea, South-west Korea, North-east Korea, North-west Korea.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Worked for Germany /s
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Well… it did…
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
West Korea, best Korea
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Border needs to be a straight line, as a joke
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
How about a striped Korea instead?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
lol … Polka Dot Korea
Then again … isn’t that known as electoral districts in the United States
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
No we do fractal districts. They get infinitely more detailed as you zoom into them.
Agent641@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It works for Vietnam and Laos, and. Burma and Thailand.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 18 hours ago
And germany
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 1 day ago
Man I wish we could have had your input during peace deals.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.
linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz 21 hours ago
No joke, I think hypothetically this would disturbance of, and conflict with, wildlife that have come to occupy the DMZ, most troublingly, tigers.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
West Korea Best Korea
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Instead of a DMZ you will have a urethra, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn!
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How about stripes?
jimmux@programming.dev 1 day ago
Can we get some enclaves in there to keep it spicy?
Agent641@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Love a good enclave.
ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Israel/Palestine isn’t working either, your thoughts?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Parael and Isletine
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Is-Raël (of the Raëliens) and East Palestine, Ohio
That way everybody is only mildly miserable like the rest of us instead of fully miserable.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Raëlians seem fun. Supposedly they have big orgy where you wear colored bracelets indicated what genders you’d like to have sex with. I’m sure there’s some dark and evil shit, like all religions, but that sounds hella fun as long as everyone is of age.
only_in_ohio@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Possible only in Ohio 😎
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
invert the borders. all Israelis get moved to Gaza and vice versa /s
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Get rid of the billionaire financiers running the West Bank. Henceforth, it’s the West Credit Union.
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Stop the geonicide by force if necessary. Send all the Europeans, Americans, and Canadians back home. Have trials, then hangings. Return all stolen land/property to the victims (or their descendants) of the colonizers. You know, post geonicide things.
1yjgjmmt5988@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Looks similar to Norway and Sweden 😄
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours 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 19 hours ago
if China can set an example and take a few steps elevating liberty,
Lol
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours 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 1 day ago
Give this champ a Nobel Prize
antsu@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
It’s Koreas all the way down.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nah, anterior and posterior Korea. Let the undercity commence. Rock and stone, baby
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 day ago
Bold move. Next step: gerrymandering Korea.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Long long
manDMZ.Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Korea the long way.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Looong loooong land
Quik@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Crosspost to !noncrediblediplomacy@sh.itjust.works
atticus88th@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Suddenly Korea looks like Vietnam.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Urge to bomb Cambodia increasing…