Korea

Korea is a nation of importance near China and Japan, with a long-history of military and economic relations, both positive and negative, with these nations. Japan often had interests in the area, fighting wars and attempting to control Korea, as did China, with Korea eventually evolving as it's own united nation which became a proxy-war of importance in the Cold War, an event directly following and similar to the Chinese Civil War.

South Korea currently represents the true Korean Republic, while North Korea is a firm and extreme communist regime. This is the aftermath of the Korean War. This has made South Korea and the Republic of China on Taiwan great allies. The United States of America has a strong relation with South Korea, while North Korea is allied with the Islamist extremist regime of Iran and the Putin-led regime of the Russian Federation.

Background
The Koreans are a Tungustic people, speaking a somewhat different language than the Chinese or Japanese. They have some similarities with the Manchu people whom are also Tungustic, whom were native to Manchuria, now known as Northeast China.?

The Koreans were never truly united until the Goryeo Dynasty. Korea began achieving prominence under the Joseon Dynasty which created a true Korean state, with a powerful and distinct army of it's own. This clashed in history at different points with the aggresive Japanese whom eventually returned to isolationism, and after that the interests of the Qing Dynasty which came forth from Manchuria.?

Prominence Then Subjugation
The Joseon Dynasty resisted the Qing Dynasty's attempts from Manchuria, and soon proclaimed a Korean Empire after some time of prosperity. This was quickly reacted to by the Empire of Japan, whom had interests in subjugating the Koreans and then Chinese after winning a victory against the Russian Empire. A Japanese victory subjugated Korea under the Empire of Japan and the Imperial Japanese Army. After the Second World War the Koreans finally regained independence, but the Cold War soon saw Korea become a battlefield in an event following the Chinese Civil War but preceding the Vietnam War, where republicans and capitalists would fight the communists.

Korean War
The Korean War began with South Korea being a government inspired by the Republic of China and United States of America, wishing to form an industrial and capitalistic republic. North Korea became a communist state inspired by the Soviet Union and the new People's Republic of China which had seized the mainland and forced the Republic of China under the Kuomintang to Taiwan.?

The Korean War saw the Republic of Korea Armed Forces and Korean People's Army, with assistance to the South Korea forces by the United States of America and the North Korean nation being backed by swarms of Communist People's Liberation Army from the People's Republic of China. The end result was the split of Korea into the free South Korea and communist isolationist dictatorship of North Korea.