North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead.

Suddenly Korea looks like Vietnam.

Urge to bomb Cambodia increasing...

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

- it's over, kim! we have the high ground!
- I'd say we turn it into Korea and Aerok instead
You guys can be Korea 1, we will be Korea A.

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.

Where in England are you from?
Let's split the difference and have some Brits redraw the lines at random, they're great at it!

It didn't work in Germany

obviously because Germany should have done North Germany and South Germany
- Again, you mean?
Oh, so germany is korea now?
Wtf is that second map?! Krefeld?! Mühlacker?! Eilenburg?! Bad Düben?!

Worked for Germany /s

Well... it did...

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

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

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

How about a striped Korea instead?

lol ... Polka Dot Korea
Then again ... isn't that known as electoral districts in the United States
- No we do fractal districts. They get ever more detailed as you zoom in to them. Their border length is theoretically infinite.

It would surely be much more peaceful. Let's just re-draw the borders and leave everything else. Just look at them spooning lovingly.

West Korea, best Korea

How about stripes?

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!

Man I wish we could have had your input during peace deals.
- 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.

Border needs to be a straight line, as a joke

Nah, anterior and posterior Korea. Let the undercity commence. Rock and stone, baby

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

Can we get some enclaves in there to keep it spicy?

Love a good enclave.

Israel/Palestine isn't working either, your thoughts?

Parael and Isletine
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.
- @gork is this true
- 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.
- Possible only in Ohio 😎
invert the borders. all Israelis get moved to Gaza and vice versa /s
Get rid of the billionaire financiers running the West Bank. Henceforth, it's the West Credit Union.

Bold move. Next step: gerrymandering Korea.

It's Koreas all the way down.

No joke, I think hypothetically this would disturbance of, and conflict with, wildlife that have come to occupy the DMZ, most troublingly, tigers.

Looks similar to Norway and Sweden 😄

Long long ~~man~~ DMZ.

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

And germany

Crosspost to !noncrediblediplomacy@sh.itjust.works

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.

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

NCD is leaking again.

We're stuck in a rut with cardinal directions

Let's try intercardinal directions,

Northeast Korea and Southwest Korea

I'd much rather prefer an Inner Korea and an Outer Korea

East Korea gets all the disputed islands with Japan.

Korea the long way.

Looong loooong land

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

Let's go Roman with Ciskorea and Transkorea. Maybe it'll give Ms Rowling a stroke.

union korea and confederate korea

mario riding yoshi korea

what projection is this? Looks super distorted

Does this mean Busan gets upgraded to capital city status? I think I could get behind that.

The only real way to divide Korea is into Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. We can call them North, West, and East Korea though