War and peace

  North Korean: Carlo Alberto Magnani. Western: Alex Isabelle. The events of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea, begin already in the aftermath of the Second World War. It will take about five years for the problems that began as a simple territorial division between the Soviet Union and the United States, and then finally exploded with the inconclusive Korean War, to crystallize in the form we know well: two states, divided by the most militarized border in the world and by a military truce that has been questioned several times. North of the 38th parallel, which divides the two Koreas with glacial precision, the Kim dynasty takes power, in the person of the military leader Kim Il-sung, who finds himself with a poor, wounded and extremely underdeveloped country. Will the discipline of Juche be able to guide North Korea through the waves of history? The game opens with the news that, of the three main population centers in the country, two are without electr...

  North Korean: Laura Beltrami Western: Alex Isabelle August 1945 World War II will be over in a few days. Global attention is focused on the incredible moments that accompany the difficult transition to peace. While Europe is divided among the allied forces, Japan, which still refuses to surrender, is hit by the bombing of Hiroshima. Two days later the USSR reopens confrontations in Manchuria, trying to occupy as much Asian territory as possible before the inevitable end of the conflict. The next day Nagasaki is hit. Japan quickly sets out to surrender, while its troops are pushed back from all occupied and colonial territories. Even if on August 15th the Emperor officially announces the surrender, the occupation of the Japanese territories by the Allies continues for a couple of weeks. Among the liberated territories there is also Korea, in the middle of which the Russian and American troops meet, approximately at the latitude of the 38th parallel. The former Japanese colony, con...