What If North Korea Had WON the Korean War?

What if North Korea had won the Korean War? On July 23, 1950, North Korea's Sixth Division reached the crossroads at Kwangju with the whole southwest of Korea open in front of it, held only by local police. In the real war it turned to take the southern ports first, and days later a general sent from Tokyo wrote down the verdict of General Walton Walker, commander of the American Eighth Army: if it had driven straight for Pusan instead, he would not have had time to stop it. In this video it does. The order says Masan first, the Pusan Perimeter breaks, America takes its army off the peninsula by sea, and Kim Il Sung rules all of Korea. So would Kim stop at the sea? Would America use the atomic bomb? Where does South Korea's government go when it has no country left? What happens to Japan when the front line of the Cold War is a narrow strait, and what would one Korea under the Kims look like today? We follow one thing all the way: the address of South Korea's government, from the capitol in Seoul to a ship at sea and beyond. Our one rule: we change one order. Every ship, unit and weapon after it is real, and where we make a choice of our own, we say so. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 No Dunkirk, No Bataan 2:33 Three Days, Twenty Two Days 4:19 The Crossroads at Kwangju 6:27 Thirty Miles to the Sea 9:01 The Last Pier 12:26 Thirty Million 14:49 A Treaty Against Japan 17:09 Who Lost Korea? 19:22 Two Straits 25:04 Forty Four Years 28:37 Seventy Seven Million 31:53 The Capital Is Seoul Which Korea would Kim have built: today's North Korea, only bigger, or one that opened up like Vietnam? Leave your answer in the comments. 📄 The documents Ambassador Shtykov's telegram to Moscow of January 19, 1950 · Truman's news conference of June 29, 1950 · the Far East Command report on the open southwest, July 1950 · Pang Ho San's proclamation to the Sixth Division · the notes of General Walker's talk at Sangju, July 29, 1950, and General Hickey's report of August 7 · the counterintelligence report on Koreans leaving for Tsushima, September 1950 · NSC 73/4, August 25, 1950 · Kim Il Sung's order of October 15, 1950 · Truman's news conference of November 30, 1950 · the State Department papers on a refuge on Cheju, January 1951 · MacArthur's directive of July 8, 1950 creating the National Police Reserve · Article 9 of Japan's constitution · John Allison's record of the Dulles and Yoshida talks, 1951 · the transfer of nine nuclear capsules to the Air Force, April 1951 · the Joint Chiefs' message of May 31, 1951 · Truman's diary entry of January 27, 1952 · Stalin's conversation with Zhou Enlai, August 20, 1952 · the 1948 and 1972 constitutions of North Korea · Shinzo Abe's address to the UN General Assembly, September 20, 2017 · North Korea's 2022 law on its nuclear forces policy. 📚 Historians and sources Roy Appleman (1961), James Schnabel (1972), Lynn Montross and Nicholas Canzona (1954), James Field (1962), Robert Futrell (1961), Kathryn Weathersby, Chen Jian, Roger Dingman, Robert Norris, William Arkin and William Burr, John Dower, Bruce Cumings, Andrei Lankov, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, and Victor Cha. The branch is ours. Every unit, number and quote it stands on comes from the record. Branchline History takes one real decision, changes it, and follows it all the way to the end. Subscribe so you don't miss the next branch. #alternatehistory #koreanwar #history