(North) Korea: The Fresh Prince of Pyongyang

Kim Jong, along with most of the council members were starting to get worried about the Mongolian tribes to the northwest banding together and attacking everyone. The council members ordered Kim Jong explore and trade military techs with other nations, and focus on military for a little while in order to stand a chance against these tribesfolk in case they do band together.

For this to happen, Kim Jong had to travel to Khmer, who was the only nation who was willing to trade the knowledge of Machinery. Suryavarman, still unable to get over Kim Jong's glorious mustache, was jealous and made Kim Jong a ludicrous deal for the technology whilst rubbing his imaginary 'stache. Kim Jong, feeling this nation wouldn't last in the long run, took the deal.

With this new knowledge, Kim Jong could order the training of Crossbowmen, who were like Longbowmen, only with bows that weren't as long, and were quite cross.



With further westward exploration came meeting more nations. The newest civilization to be added under Kim Jong's glory was Barbarossa, who did have facial hair, unlike Suryavarman II. Even if he had more, it was obviously not as glorious as Kim Jong's. As it turned out, North Korea had more techs to offer Holy Rome than Holy Rome had to offer North Korea.

While following a heathen religion (not Jongism), this nation liked us for our similar way of running our nation. Kim Jong thought this was absolutely great, so he decided to make a work boat and whip it in Seoul to harvest the fish at Namp'o. Doesn't make too much sense, but Kim Jong thought it was perfect logic.



As further exploration was conducted, North Korea met Spain, a nation very far west from North Korea. Spain had a woman named Isabella for their leader, and were very devoted to their Catholic ways. Heck, Kim Jong hadn't even said anything yet and Isabella had already sensed his ki Jongist aura and was absolutely finished with him before any deals were made!

Kim Jong vowed that he would hate Spain forever. No matter what, Spain would have absolutely no affairs with North Korea, unlike the friendly Holy Romans and Japanese. In North Korea, Levies and Knights were now being trained because of their strength and their claims that they would be very effective against the Mongolians if they did form. As Kim Jong could not train these "Pikemen" that the council members were talking about, he trained Levies.



Kim Jong had decided that the archers protecting North Korean citizens were becoming old fashioned. In order to fix this, Kim Jong delved into his treasury and spent tons of gold training them to become Crossbowmen. These new soldiers would be much better and more efficient than old Archers at protecting cities from foreign threats.

Oh, and Barbarossa came to Kim Jong asking for help with their fight against the Vikings. These Vikings were very distant from North Korea, and Holy Rome could definitely fend them off. With these facts in mind, Kim Jong officially declared war on the Kingdom of Norway in order to help and preserve their relationship with Holy Rome.



A man named Tacitus had finished a listing of the most powerful civilizations of the world. The top were the backwards Chinese, which angered Kim Jong. He would NOT stand for his rivals to be more "powerful" than him. Unfortunately, he had to bite his tongue and stay his hand as he was already preparing for a war with these northwestern tribesfolk, and wars with the not-so-friendly northern and western Europeans.

Oh yeah, speaking of not-so-friendly western Europeans, France has had enough of us and declared war on us because they hate Jongism for some reason. Kim Jong was angered by this. What did everyone have against Jongism, I mean, it's a great religion, right?

Council members, I am allowing you one more update to post policies, as Kim Jong feels that we should focus on working together more right now instead of political campaigns.

Send in your final policies on what to do with our new 2 wars and rising Mongolians!

TheNoob said:

The council members ordered requested the almighty and glorious Kim Jong explore and trade military techs with other nations, and focus on military for a little while in order to stand a chance against these tribesfolk in case they do band together.

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There, fixed it

Also, keep building pikemen to crush the horsemen of Mongolia.

Wait I thought we had the knowledge of engineering. I take back my earlier statement and change it to that we must build levies to take down the horsemen.

Then, as Adviser of Science and Internal/Foreign affairs, I hereby commission that the research and training of Engineering and Pikeman, respectively, be put at the utmost concern of the nation of Korea.

What I did find great, though, is that we're better than every single European nation we've met already, which is hilarious.

Well Europe starts off pretty weak because IRL Europe was in a very bad way after Rome collapsed.

CaterpillarKing said:

Well Europe starts off pretty weak because IRL Europe was in a very bad way after Rome collapsed.

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But this is 1000 AD, shouldn't they be recuperating by now?

No. While Europe wasn't as bad off as a general school history book, the REAL development didn't start until the 1300's - 1400's.

Ah I see. Well, at least we can enjoy our advantage while it lasts.

And also at the history book. Honestly, in 7th grade I had a World Studies book without a cover on it.

Just from a numbers standpoint, the population in Europe didn't recover from the fall of Rome and the plague until 1000 AD, and that was just population. Christianity also sort of screwed up technology because there was a lot of hindrance of scientific revolution in the middle ages due to religious problems. Also, the lack of a larger, more stable power and not a bunch of squabbling kingdoms caused severe instability, more plagues, poor scientific research, and slow advancements elsewhere. Not to mention that the feudal system was terrible for progress.

The Middle Ages in Europe weren't nearly as bad as most people tend to think.
http://www.quia.com/files/quia/user...LD/dark_ages_knights_sieges_and_weapons_1.pdf

...But let's get back on topic.

It depends on who you were. Nothing is that bad when you put it in perspective, but the disease and poverty are turn-offs for me. Anywho, the great Kim Jong would not want us to flood his story likely so I agree, let us move back to the topic.

Kim Jong does not mind these discussions if they would be moved to the group

Military, capture and we get culture!!! And strategic points for cities and metals.

When do the Mongols spawn?

I believe in about 150 years

Ok after going on the game to check, the Mongols spawn in 1190.

Okay well I recommend starting no wars, but wait until Mongolia and China fight. Maybe even help China a bit, just to weaken and eventually destroy the Mongols. Once the Mongols are gone there is only one road-block to total Asian domination, China. We must look at this objectively.

But what shall we do with our wars with the Europeans?