Greater Korean Republic

The Greater Korean Republic is a unified totalitarian superstate from North to South Korea formed in 2013 by Kim Jong-un and an antagonistic faction in Homefront. The nation follows a combination of Juche ideology and Korean nationalism and became the dominant nation in East Asia, and absorbing Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, East Timor, and Singapore into its sphere of influence, slowly achieving global economic and military supremacy. At the beginning of 2025, the Greater Korean Republic declared war on the United States and occupied the western half of America.

The GKR, although an economic superstate, is generally recognized as a one-party dictatorship that annexed multiple states through war. Although the GKR claims to be a legitimate state, its claim to rule is challenged by the United States, which maintains that the GKR is an illegal terrorist dictatorship.

Formation
On 2 January 2012, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il died from a sudden fatal stroke and was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un. Under Kim Jong-un's reign, North Korea initiated an openness policy with the international world and peacefully ended its armistice in the Korean Peninsula for over 70 years and seeking reunification with South Korea under a "one nation, two-system solution." For some Western countries, however, the reunification was seen as a blatant takeover. Following the end of Korean hostility, and coinciding with global socio-economic problems, the Koreas embraced a new wave of nationalism which also called for the withdrawal of all United States military forces in South Korea. Particularly the other reasons to the end of the American/South Korean military alliance was due to the Koreans' opinions for blaming the United States on being responsible for the global economic downturn.

By 2014, Korean unification broadened with the dismantling of the Demilitarized Zone and the release of prisoners from the North Korean labor camps supported by the Kim Jong-il regime. In 2015, Kim Jong-un was enormously elected as President of the unified Korea, calling itself the Greater Korean Republic. However, the Korean government was criticized by observers from the United States as being under a dictatorial regime undermined by Kim Jong-un's political party, the New Chosun Party. Within two years, the Greater Korean Republic rose as a dominant economic and military power in East Asia. Due to the U.S. having withdrawn its military presence from Asia as a result of its economic downfall, Asia was left defenseless against the onslaught of the Greater Korean Republic.

Korean Expansionism
In 2018, the GKR declared war on Japan, due to the systematic murder of tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans by the Japanese and the lack of response by the United Nations. After Korean military forces destroyed the Chugoku nuclear power plant, expelling radiation across the Japanese southern coast in the process, and holding at least twenty-six other power plants hostage, Japan promptly surrender. As the United States withdrew its military overseas due to economic hardship back in the homeland, the GKR, left uncontested, incorporated most of East Asia consisting of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, East Timor, and Singapore, most of whom joined the GKR voluntarily due to its ability to provide economic and resource security. By late 2024, the Greater Korean Republic set its sights on the financially and militarily weakened United States in a campaign to extract additional resources with which to sustain its growth.

Occupation of America
On 15 January 2025, the Korean People's Army began its invasion on the United States after the GKR launches a wide-scale cyber attack on US military and civilian infrastructure using preexisting backdoors in the Korean-supplied microchips. This attack is soon followed by its Starry Messenger satellite detonating an electromagnetic pulse strike over North America, wiping out the United States' power grid. The attacks allow Korean forces to easily overrun Hawaii and then California, soon after occupying the western half of the country. By 2026, the GKR had gained total control of all 24 American states west of the Mississippi River and had established the so-called New Korean Federation of Occupied America, or "New America", after irradiating the entire Mississippi River during Operation Water Snake in order to cement their control of the western side. By 2027, despite controlling the majority of the former United States, the GKR is met with stubborn opposition from the American Resistance and as well surviving remnants of the U.S. military.

In 2027, American military forces were isolated and scattered across the United States, which is was split in half since the GKR irradiated the Mississippi River where the eastern side was still under the United States' control. The GKR has secured most of the States where American citizens are taken prisoners under the occupation. In Montrose, Colorado, the American Resistance had led an uprising in the state and started what is known to be the "Second American Revolution." The remaining scattered American forces built up together for a major counter-offensive on the West Coast by trying to retake San Francisco, the capital of the NKFOA.

In late 2027, the Korean People's Army battled the U.S. military on the Golden Gate Bridge. However, the Americans managed to break through their lines and capture KPA Anti-Aircraft guns which enabled American fighter aircraft to inflict massive casualties on KPA ground forces as well, which gave the Americans the advantage to retaking the city. The American victory at San Francisco proved to be the turning point and convincing the European Union to plan military support for the United States.

It is presumed that the KPA lost control of most of the Western United States, and is thus faced with a war on two fronts: The European Union and the United States.