Event · treaty
The Korean Reunion
South Korea unites with the North under Chinese protection.
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2090s · The Korean Reunion: with the US withdrawn and its own population down by more than a third, South Korea elects a president who runs on reunification, with China's backing. The South unites with the North under Chinese protection, and China removes the Kim dynasty. The DMZ is dismantled, and the whole peninsula enters the future Mandate, first as its own state and later as one of its provinces. The Korea Strait becomes the frontier with Japan · South Korea's fertility rate of 0.72 in 2023, the world's lowest; recurring doubts about US troops in Korea
Japan, with the Ryukyus: the Settlement's eastern bastion, and the first society to live through the Hollowing as an ageing, robotic nation. Since the Korean Reunion of the 2090s it faces the Mandate across the Korea Strait.
2090s · Joined · North Korea, South Korea · Korea · Canon: The Korean Reunion · The DMZ is taken down. Korea is its own state at first, then a province