Korea (Alternity)

Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (Hangul: 대한민국), is a nation located in East Asia, primarily the Korean Peninsula. Korea shares borders with Russia and Manchuria to the north, and Qing China to the west, as well as maritime borders with Japan to east.

Modern Korea's beginnings can be traced to the three-kingdom unification under the Silla Kingdom in 688 AD, and the subsequent Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties, which ruled the present-day boundaries of the nation as the Korean Empire, until its annexation by a growing Japan in 1910. For thirty-six years, Korea was ruled by Japanese military authority, until it was liberated by Allied (mainly American) troops in late April 1946. Korean subservience to Japan for so long fostered some mistrust of Allied troops in the years following the liberation, which only led to greater confusion in early 1950 when the Philippine Empire made good on its threats and invaded the peninsula through the port city of Pusan in the south, following a rapid takeover of Jeju Island as a staging area. This was the spark that ignited the two-year Korean War, a war fought to prevent complete Philippine domination of the peninsula.

Invasion and war (1950-1952)
Main Article: Korean War (1950-1952)

'Years of Instability' (1952-1982)
===Expansion and revitalization (1958-present)

Nuclear program
Main Article: Nuclear weapons