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Regions transported: Russia (Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)), Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Palau, Indonesia (Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, West Papua), East Timor

For Russia, the period following the Event was one marked by squabbling and disagreement between the three provincial governments of the Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai and the Sakha Republic, primary over their respective reactions policies to their new situation, but also over where and how Russia's federal institutions should be re-established. Eventually an interim agreement was reached whereby meetings between representatives from each of the provinces would be held alternatively in Chita, Blagoveshchensk and Yakutsk. This arrangement however failed to bring the unity initially hoped for as each government continued to pursue its own policies, so that as the years progressed the meetings became less frequent, eventually being reformulated into a rotating annual meeting between what were now recognised as the three sovereign governments of Amuria, Zabaikalia and Yakutia. While Amuria had developed a more cosmopolitan and Asian culture thanks to its existing and new Korean, Chinese and Japanese communities and trade across the Sea of Japan, Zabaikalia remained more Russian in character with the Mongol Buryats as the only significant minority, although many had moved south and established a separate republic of South Buryatia. Yakutia retrained its status as north Asia's resource hub, happily supplying Chita, Blagoveshchensk and beyond.

In Pyongyang, the sudden flash and disappearance of the Chinese and Russians from their borders was taken as a sign that now was the opportune moment to retake the capitalist south and hence, just a few days later, thousands of PKA troops crossed the DMZ, coming within 10km of the outskirts of Seoul before the South could meet them and mount a defence of their capital. While the North had hoped that both fate and the element of surprise who deliver them a swift victory and the South expected to be able overwhelm the North with their technological superiority, the war soon became entrenched as the PKA continuously threw more conscripts at the South's guns and Seoul found itself struggling to maintain its army without the imports it had come to rely on. The stalemate was finally broken when the Japanese entered to support the South Koreans. Both Seoul and Tokyo had been reluctant to take action which would see Japanese soldiers in action on the Korean peninsular again, but the situation necessitated it and a couple of months later Pyongyang was on the defensive with many areas in the north falling to Seoul's control for the first time since the 1950s. As ROKA troops entered Pyongyang thoughts turned to reconstruction. Due to the scale of the task it was decided to install a temporary administration known as the Republic of Choson which would undertake the "de-Kimification" of the country, with areas which had escaped the worst of the fighting being ceded directed to the Korean republic.

The Second Korean War had generated a mass exodus of refugees and emigrants as those that could escaped north and west into Amuria and across the Yellow Sea to avoid the fighting, leading to a large Korean presence across the region, but one with hardly any central co-ordination. Establishing law and order in these new regions fell to Seoul with assistance from the Japanese and Amurians. Meanwhile, in the eastern reaches of the Gobi desert reports had emerged of new settlements appearing with the DPRK flag flying over them. Dubbed the magical "Unicorn Kingdom" by the Russians, information on the re-emerged Kim regime remains severely limited.

While Korea was working to recover from the ravages of war, the Japanese were free to bring large tracts of land on the southern Chinese coast and along the Yangtze, or Choko, river, helped by land clearance, agricultural and construction robotics and AI technology.

South of the equator, what remained of the Indonesian government was faced with a series of secession crises with both Papua and South Maluku declaring their independence, as well as several smaller religious and ethnic minority groups. Thus the much reduced Indonesia's efforts in the first few decades were taken up with efforts to reintegrate, as well as expand their territory. While it looks like South Maluku may well be on course to re-join Indonesia, New Guinea's independence is well established with only the most ardent of Indonesian politicians believing reincorporation of West Papua and Papua is still achievable. With the increasing Japanese presence in the region, in fact attention has been increasingly focused towards a wider regional pact incorporating Timor and Palau to "protect against protentional Japanese aggression". Indonesia remains by far the most enthusiastic supporter of the pact though.

Description
Regions transported: Russia (Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)), Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Palau, Indonesia (Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, West Papua), East Timor

For Russia, the period following the Event was one marked by squabbling and disagreement between the three provincial governments of the Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai and the Sakha Republic, primary over their respective reactions policies to their new situation, but also over where and how Russia's federal institutions should be re-established. Eventually an interim agreement was reached whereby meetings between representatives from each of the provinces would be held alternatively in Chita, Blagoveshchensk and Yakutsk. This arrangement however failed to bring the unity initially hoped for as each government continued to pursue its own policies, so that as the years progressed the meetings became less frequent, eventually being reformulated into a rotating annual meeting between what were now recognised as the three sovereign governments of Amuria, Zabaikalia and Yakutia. While Amuria had developed a more cosmopolitan and Asian culture thanks to its existing and new Korean, Chinese and Japanese communities and trade across the Sea of Japan, Zabaikalia remained more Russian in character with the Mongol Buryats as the only significant minority, although many had moved south and established a separate republic of South Buryatia. Yakutia retrained its status as north Asia's resource hub, happily supplying Chita, Blagoveshchensk and beyond.

In Pyongyang, the sudden flash and disappearance of the Chinese and Russians from their borders was taken as a sign that now was the opportune moment to retake the capitalist south and hence, just a few days later, thousands of PKA troops crossed the DMZ, coming within 10km of the outskirts of Seoul before the South could meet them and mount a defence of their capital. While the North had hoped that both fate and the element of surprise who deliver them a swift victory and the South expected to be able overwhelm the North with their technological superiority, the war soon became entrenched as the PKA continuously threw more conscripts at the South's guns and Seoul found itself struggling to maintain its army without the imports it had come to rely on. The stalemate was finally broken when the Japanese entered to support the South Koreans. Both Seoul and Tokyo had been reluctant to take action which would see Japanese soldiers in action on the Korean peninsular again, but the situation necessitated it and a couple of months later Pyongyang was on the defensive with many areas in the north falling to Seoul's control for the first time since the 1950s. As ROKA troops entered Pyongyang thoughts turned to reconstruction. Due to the scale of the task it was decided to install a temporary administration known as the Republic of Choson which would undertake the "de-Kimification" of the country, with areas which had escaped the worst of the fighting being ceded directed to the Korean republic.

The Second Korean War had generated a mass exodus of refugees and emigrants as those that could escaped north and west into Amuria and across the Yellow Sea to avoid the fighting, leading to a large Korean presence across the region, but one with hardly any central co-ordination. Establishing law and order in these new regions fell to Seoul with assistance from the Japanese and Amurians. Meanwhile, in the eastern reaches of the Gobi desert reports had emerged of new settlements appearing with the DPRK flag flying over them. Dubbed the magical "Unicorn Kingdom" by the Russians, information on the re-emerged Kim regime remains severely limited.

While Korea was working to recover from the ravages of war, the Japanese were free to bring large tracts of land on the southern Chinese coast and along the Yangtze, or Choko, river, helped by land clearance, agricultural and construction robotics and AI technology.

South of the equator, what remained of the Indonesian government was faced with a series of secession crises with both Papua and South Maluku declaring their independence, as well as several smaller religious and ethnic minority groups. Thus the much reduced Indonesia's efforts in the first few decades were taken up with efforts to reintegrate, as well as expand their territory. While it looks like South Maluku may well be on course to re-join Indonesia, New Guinea's independence is well established with only the most ardent of Indonesian politicians believing reincorporation of West Papua and Papua is still achievable. With the increasing Japanese presence in the region, in fact attention has been increasingly focused towards a wider regional pact incorporating Timor and Palau to "protect against protentional Japanese aggression". Indonesia remains by far the most enthusiastic supporter of the pact though.