So Vilage and I was talking, then I talked with Shyri/Feo, and it's come to the conclusion we'll retcon out divided Korea. That really hinges on something having happened in the past that was already decanonized (a Turkish invasion of New Guinea).

For the lay people, way back in Spore-Forum era Precipice some almost five years ago out Turkey, played by Prospo sought to establish Pacific colonies by invading New Guinea. China didn't want to tolerate its existence so performed an abrupt about-faced turn with Japan to drive the Turks out. Part of the deal was acknowledgement that China owns Taiwan and the partitioning of Korea.

So since we so long ago decided to remove the New Guinean invasion from the lore, and since we realized partitioned Korea is sort of undefendable we came to the conclusion the Chinese would have straight up driven out the Japs and established a Beijing-friendly Korean government for all Korea.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjV2EErPHdg[/youtube]

Having said that, I'll have to nuke all mention of Nor Kor and replace it with Korea on the Wiki. But right now I'm off to do late-night grocery shopping because #NightLife