00:00What if Kim Il-sung had been assassinated?
00:02Let's assume that Kim Il-sung was assassinated in the late 1940s.
00:05At that time, North Korea had not yet fully established Kim Il-sung's one-man dictatorship,
00:10and there were various factions, such as the Yan'an faction and the Soviet faction.
00:13If this happened, first of all, the Korean War probably wouldn't have occurred.
00:17The Korean War was the result of Kim Il-sung's persistent request for approval to invade the South.
00:21But since Kim Il-sung was assassinated, there would have been a leadership vacuum,
00:24and power struggles would have been severe,
00:26making it difficult to establish a unified command system capable of waging a large-scale war.
00:31In the end, it would have led to conflicts between the pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese factions,
00:35and the country would have been greatly shaken.
00:37Eventually, the pro-Soviet faction would have won,
00:39and North Korea would have become a satellite state similar to those in Eastern Europe.
00:42However, since there wouldn't have been the hatred between North and South Korea that built up during the Korean War,
00:47there might have been a gradual movement toward exchange and unification,
00:50similar to what happened in Germany.
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