Forum:Korean TL reboot

I am thinking of rebooting and renaming my timeline about a Meiji Korea called :Dae-Han Jeguk: An Alternate History of Korea. I wanted to know if this is permissible or I had to start a new TL.

Instead of a POD of 1860s, the POD is in 1895 instead where the assassination of Queen Min was discovered and were quashed easily. The Korean King Gojong, now distrusting the Russians, ally with the Americans and Germans instead, implemented reforms, some of them even the reforms of his political opponents, and modernizes his country. In the Boxer war, the Koreans even annexed from the Chinese Manchuria, but the Russians did not like it. The Manchurian War was fought by Korea and Japan in a temporary alliance against Russia to stop what they call bullying by European nations, and Manchuria sans Liaodong was Korean for some time. Liaodong and all of Sakhalin became Japanese.

At the outbreak of World War I, Gojong was outmanuevered by pro-Central Powers government officials and install his son Sunjong as Emperor instead. Surprisingly, the smaller and somewhat less equipped Korean military defeated both the Russians in Vladivostok in Manchuria and the Japanese at sea until the US declared war on the Central Powers. Outclassed by America and with Japan recovering from the Korean occupation of Tsushima, Dokdo, Kyushu, Ryukyu and Taiwan islands, launched a counterattack. Severely defeated, the Korean military launched a coup, abolished the monarchy, and get to surrender to the Americans-they would never do so to the Japanese who want nothing less than occupation and annexation of Korea.

The politics in the 1920s and 1930s are very tumultous in Korea, some politicians are pro-Monarchy, some are pro-Chinese, some wanting reconciliation with Japan. With Manchuria becoming a Japanese satellite, however, the Koreans tried to be neutral. But then, the Republic of Korea's government in 1940 were overthrown by pro-Japanese and royalists and had to go to exile in China and the Philippines. An exile army prepared its return to the peninsula while the pro-Japanese Empire of Chosen tried to rule with Japanese and Manchukuo help. In 1945, the exiled Provisionals returned with a vengeance to Korea and forced the Chosen Army to rise up against the collaborators and the Japanese. But there was a problem since the Soviets infiltrated some Communists into Korea. President Syngman Rhee had to crush the Korean communist movement led by Kim Il-Sung in 1948-50, in what was called the Korean Insurgency. After that, history largely resembles OTL South Korea, but with a separate Communist Manchukuo threatening the Koreans, though this Manchukuo is halfway between OTL PRC [which also exists in TTL] and DPRK, but without the theatrics of the latter except for the nukes. Manchukuo can feed itself unlike OTL North Korea.

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