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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 5 points 19 hours ago

What about all? South-east Korea, South-west Korea, North-east Korea, North-west Korea.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Honestly ? Not the stupidest thing I've read today...

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 7 points 20 hours ago

Where in England are you from?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

Let's split the difference and have some Brits redraw the lines at random, they're great at it!

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

West Korea Best Korea

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It works for Vietnam and Laos, and. Burma and Thailand.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 18 hours ago

And germany

[–] linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz 4 points 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.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

obviously because Germany should have done North Germany and South Germany

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

Again, you mean?

Oh, so germany is korea now?

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Wtf is that second map?! Krefeld?! Mühlacker?! Eilenburg?! Bad Düben?!

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

A united Korea may be one of the positive side effects of America pooping its pants and deteriorating 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 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

if China can set an example and take a few steps elevating liberty,

Lol

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 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.

West Korea, best Korea

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Give this champ a Nobel Prize

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Suddenly Korea looks like Vietnam.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Urge to bomb Cambodia increasing...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Divide it into 9 bits and get alignment Korea.

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[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What if it's upper and lower Korea? Everything above the average elevation of Korea is upper, the rest is lower

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

You guys can be Korea 1, we will be Korea A.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] UnknownSoul@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd say we turn it into Korea and Aerok instead

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 1 points 19 hours ago
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[–] atlas@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

it's over, kim! we have the high ground!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Border needs to be a straight line, as a joke

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about a striped Korea instead?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol ... Polka Dot Korea

Then again ... isn't that known as electoral districts in the United States

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No we do fractal districts. They get ever more detailed as you zoom in to them. Their border length is theoretically infinite.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago

The gerrymandered border slicing through an American's house to isolate its occupants into different districts

[–] 1yjgjmmt5988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Looks similar to Norway and Sweden 😄

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 11 points 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.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

How about stripes?

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Babe wake up anew west coast vs east coast beef just dropped.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Instead of a DMZ you will have a urethra, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn!

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