Would Korea have divided, without the influence of external powers?
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Frankly, Korea's history has been so defined by external powers that it would be difficult to imagine what things would have been like without them. You are getting seriously into realms of speculative history.
For the most part, the reason people band together into large states or countries is so that they can deal with other such large entities. So it is quite likely that, absent any external threats, there would never have been any reason for the various districts to band together at all. So you could have seen less unity there, not more.
If we look back at history, Korea had a long period of unification from roughly 57BC. However, what helped enable the unification was an alliance one of the major states (Silla) had with China's Tang Dynasty, and then later revolt against Chinese rule. Without the interference of China, the unification may never have occurred.
Ironically, it may have been Korea's rejection of external influences during the "Hermit Kingdom" period of the Joeson Dynasty that left their military so far behind the rest of the world that they became an inviting target to impearlistic foriegn powers. China had a similar attitude during the same period, with similar results.
So one could argue that Korea owes what unification it ever had to "the influence of external powers", and its current disunion to a period where there was no such influence.
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