Korea
At the end of World War II, certain matters entered Russia and the United States into a standoff that lasted for decades and was referred to as the Cold War. Actions and decisions made by both sides were influenced by this, with Korea being no exception.
Russia encouraged North Korean forces to cross the boarder into the South, an action denounced by the United Nations. Though officially they were the ones to react, ninety percent of activity and support for the South was done and proved by the United States.
Eventually China entered the conflict on the side of the North, created a stalemate that stretched four years with no clear winner and only a growing amount of suffering for the Koreans to show for it. Finally in 1953 an armistice was signed, creating a cease fire but not officially ending the war itself. The United States, Russia, and China moved on to repeat their actions in Vietnam, leaving Korea at odds and divided among itself.
The Korean War was among the most destructive conflicts of the modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities and a larger proportional civilian death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War. It incurred the destruction of virtually all of Korea's major cities, thousands of massacres by both sides, including the mass killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by the South Korean government, and the torture and starvation of prisoners of war by the North Koreans. North Korea became among the most heavily bombed countries in history.
One would think that at such a high cost, those involved would learn from the mistakes of the past; the event of the Gifted however proved such an assumption wrong. The North immediately declared these people property of the State, and collected them from the streets and even their homes as quickly as they could be found. Various groups of course protested this, but the leader Kim Chung did not care. In the South China formerly offered the aid of their organization to assist and help with Gifted, but as they had been on opposing sides previously the South has politely kept stalemating making any commitment one way or the other.
Five years after the Gifted came to be, there were tragic events on both sides of the boarder that might have been done by regular humans but probably happened because of unchecked powers. Regardless of the cause, the North loudly and openly accused the South, and unleashed an attack that proved they had been spending the last several years not only attempting to increase the destructive powers of their Gifted but out and out weaponizing them in some cases. The UN gave full authority to the ITSDA, who with the help of combined militaries and their Gifted were able to slow the advancement of the North to a crawl before stalling it.
Just like before Russia gave aid to the North, and while China kept open their offer to South Korea to bring in their organization it is suspected but unproven that they are aiding the North in order to increase pressure and force a decision.
Korea in the current year is a ghost of its former self, a bombed and scorched wreck of withered fields and burned out buildings that has become a testing ground for countries to try out the deadliness or destructive abilities of their Gifted along with various mundane implements of War. Various organizations and politicians use it for their own goals and purposes, with little care put forth toward those people trapped in this endless hell.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:37, Fri 07 May 2021.
