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Non-nuclear EMP not within our ability on such a scale.

Arlington, even a low-yield device (assuming not suitcase nukes here) would basically toast Washington in the process. Fallout and fires, mostly. Though no direct damage from anything below ~5kt, and really, for it to get Washington at all like that it would have to be right on the river.

Yes.

He was working in that direction otl.

No.

Depends on when the Civil War ends. If it ends before the end of WWII, China gets the NK mandate, and it goes away peacefully. If after WWII, US forces take it in the Korean War.

If you have NK taken out early on, then it merges more or less right away with SK.

Remember, Germany had tons of problems with inequality post-unification. With the Koreas, the gap is bigger, by several orders of magnitude.