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The Greater Korean Republic is a unified totalitarian superstate of North and South Korea formed on November 17, 2013[1] by Kim Jong-un. The nation follows a combination of Juche ideology and Korean nationalism and became the dominant nation in East Asia, and absorbing Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, East Timor, and Singapore into its sphere of influence, slowly achieving global economic and military supremacy. At the beginning of 2025, the Greater Korean Republic declared war on the United States and occupied the western half of America.

Western-aligned nations such as the United States do not recognize the GKR as a legitimate state, but as a one-party dictatorship that annexed multiple states through war, and continued to internationally refer it as "North Korea."[2]

History

Formation

On January 2, 2012, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il died from a sudden fatal stroke and was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un. Under Kim Jong-un's reign, North Korea initiated an open-door policy with the international community, reversing Kim Jong-il's repressive policies, and peacefully ended its armistice in the Korean Peninsula and seeking reunification with South Korea under a "one nation, two-system solution."[3] For some Western countries, however, the reunification was seen as a blatant takeover. Following the end of the Korean armistice, and coinciding with global socioeconomic problems, the Koreas embraced a new wave of nationalism which also called for the withdrawal of all United States military forces in South Korea. Particularly the other reasons for the end of the American/South Korean military alliance was due to the rise of anti-American sentiment in South Korea in which the Koreans blamed the U.S. for being responsible for the global economic downturn.[4]

Unifiedkorea

Rise of the Greater Korean Republic.

By 2014, Korean unification broadened with the dismantling of the Demilitarized Zone and the release of prisoners from the North Korean labor camps supported by the Kim Jong-il regime.[5] In 2015, Kim Jong-un was enormously elected as President of the unified Korea, calling itself the Greater Korean Republic. However, the Korean government was criticized by observers from the U.S. to be not any different from the previous North Korean regime.[6] Within two years, the Greater Korean Republic rose as a dominant economic and military power in East Asia. Due to the U.S. having withdrawn its military presence from Asia as a result of its economic downfall, Asia was left defenseless against the onslaught of the GKR.

Korean Expansionism

In 2018, the GKR declared war on Japan in response to the systematic murder of tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans by the Japanese and the lack of response by the United Nations. After Korean military forces destroyed the Chugoku nuclear power plant, expelling radiation across the Japanese southern coast in the process, and holding at least twenty-six other power plants hostage, Japan promptly surrendered and was annexed into the GKR.[7]

As the United States withdrew its military overseas due to economic hardship back in the homeland, the GKR, left uncontested, incorporated most of East Asia into its sphere of influence. These consisted of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, VietnamCambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, East Timor, and Singapore; most of whom joined the GKR as occupied states voluntarily due to their ability to provide economic and resource security during a time when the world was gripped by a global economic downturn and a oil crisis caused by the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict.[8] By late 2024, the GKR set its sights on the financially and militarily weakened United States in a campaign to extract additional resources with which to sustain its growth.[8]

Occupation of America

On 15 January 2025, the Korean People's Army invaded the United States after the GKR launched a wide-scale cyber attack on US military and civilian infrastructure using preexisting backdoors in the Korean-supplied microchips.[9][10] This attack was soon followed by its Starry Messenger satellite detonating an electromagnetic pulse strike over North America, wiping out the United States' power grid. The attacks allowed Korean forces to easily overrun Hawaii and then California.

By 2026, the GKR had gained total control of all 24 American states west of the Mississippi River and reorganized them as the New Korean Federation of Occupied America, or "New America", after irradiating the entire Mississippi River in order to cement their control of the western side. By 2027, despite controlling the majority of the Western United States, the GKR is met with stubborn opposition from American resistance groups and surviving remnants of the U.S. military.

After two years of the occupation, the U.S. military mounted a counter-offensive against the Koreans by retaking San Francisco, the capital of the NKFOA. Despite the KPA fiercely preventing the American forces from crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, the Americans were able to break through their lines and retook the city. This decisive blow to the Koreans led to the KPA losing control of most of the Western United States, and the European Union planning to support the U.S. against the GKR.

Government

The Greater Korean Republic carries over the same political function as North Korea. Like North Korea, the GKR is a highly centralized, one-party Juche Socialist Republic. The New Chosun Worker's Party is the ruling party of the GKR which includes statemen from both South and North Korea.[6] Kim Jong-un is the Supreme Leader (President) of the GKR and also Supreme Commander in Chief of the military, the Korean People's Army. The government's ideology is an adapted version of the Juche ideology dubbed the "New Juche Revolution"[1] that reflects the GKR's annexations of countries into its sphere of influence, in which Kim Jong-un emphasized Korea as having a "significant place in guiding the future of the world" and frequently comparing the GKR to the Chosun Kingdom that formed modern Korean culture, literature, science, trade and technology.[11]

Opposition parties opposed to Kim Jong-un's rule remained nearly non-existent as oppositional leaders and politicians were either engulfed in scandal or suffered "accidents" manufactured and enforced by Kim Jong-un's secret police.[6][12]

Anti-American sentiment is strongly prominent in the GKR. North Korean and American relations had been hostile since the Korean War, in which the United States enforced sanctions and international criticisms on North Korea in response to North Korea's human rights record and development of nuclear weapons. During the Korean unification process in 2013, anti-American sentiment grew among South Koreans in which the South Korean government at that time blamed America for causing the global economic downturn and stealing "Korea's hard earned money in the casino floor of exotic derivatives and other financial scams."[4] During the invasion and occupation of the Western United States, anti-American violence was widely practiced by the KPA.

Military

The Korean People's Army (KPA) is the military force of the GKR. As of 2023, the KPA has 25 million personnel, due to contributions from member states, and an Expeditionary Force of more than 5 million troops, making it the largest standing military in the world.[13] The military is coordinated by the GKR Strategic Command, the GKR military capital located in Pyongyang.[14]

Since the Korean unification, the KPA is a modernized military after having replaced and scrapped most of its Cold War-era ordnance and upgrading the Army's training in an accelerated program. The military is commonly armed with American-made weapons and vehicles, resulting from its integration with the South Korean and Japanese militaries,[15][16] and also utilizing advanced weapons purchased from Russia and China.[17]

Economy

The Greater Korean Republic has the largest economy in the world. Before the unification, North Korea's economy was extremely meager and stagnant due to political isolation and inefficient state control of the market. South Korea's free market economy flourished due to their technological and industrial prowess. After the unification, North Korea gained access to the South's great economic resources and the South gained access to the North's mineral resources. South Korea guided North Korea through free market reforms, although the administration in Pyongyang was effective at mobilizing assets to serve the state's ambitions.[14] The GKR's economy and monetary policy are enforced by the GKR Central Bank, which is based in Seoul.[14]

In 2020, Korea became the number one supplier of enterprise and military-grade electronics, providing everything from rack mounted switching systems for cell phones networks to guidance systems for unmanned aerial vehicles.[18] Korean microchips were cheap and highly demanded for the leanest power consumption profiles in which their primarily consumer, ironically, was the United States military.[10]

The importation of resources from the New Korean Federation of Occupied America helped supplement the shift to a wartime economy. It is unknown what the gross domestic product of the GKR is.

Several companies of the GKR assisted in the occupation of the U.S. Ready Electronics imported the C4 used to attack American cities' transportation systems. The GKR's oil companies imported equipment to drill for shale oil in the Rocky Mountains.

Member States

Real GKR Map of Homefront

The Greater Korean Republic before the Battle of San Francisco.

The following nations have either been absorbed, forcefully occupied or willingly joined the Greater Korean Republic.

Trivia

  • The GKR's annexation of East Asian countries is based off of Imperial Japan's Co-Prosperity Sphere during World War II.[8] The only differences is that parts of China including their region Manchuria and Taiwan were not part of the GKR.
  • Crytek, which was originally to produce Homefront 2, created the video game series Crysis which features North Korea playing the role of an antagonistic world power in the first game in 2007. Kim Jong-chul, Kim Jong-un's older brother, is depicted as the country's leader. Like his younger brother, he was able to transform North Korea into a successful, wealthy, powerful country by the 2020's. It is not stated if the two Koreas were reunited, but the North was able to deploy significant forces around the Pacific and invade an island nation.
  • The GKR appears to include Laos; according to the trailer, Laos seems to have been conquered while Bangladesh remains free, perhaps due to India's protection. Brunei, East Timor, Myanmar, and Singapore were not mentioned at all in this context of Homefront, but also seem to have been absorbed.

 

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