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why is it that the puppets in divided countries are always the south lol. South korea, south vietnam, south yemen...
Looking at those countries it might be just strategic positions. Vietnam and the DPRK border China to the north and Yemen is bordering Saudi Arabia. It makes sense to not place your puppets in between two (semi) hostile forces.
Maybe access to the ocean is a factor, too? Hence Western Europe rather than Central or Eastern Europe. Until the 1990s, at least—although I wonder where the cracks first started to appear?
I'd bet it's because of access to maritime trade routes. Dependent capitalism has historically had some trouble advancing deeper into continents due to lack of required infrastructure (trains), so the most "developed" regions tend to be by rivers, ports and sea. So you both get this local bourgeoisie dependent on foreign trade as well as making it easier to deploy foreign troops for intervention, with carriers and the like.
But it also turns out there just aren't that many north-pointing peninsula countries in the world, specially outside the Mediterranean Sea. Best I could think of were the Guyanas (both the nominally independent and the French territory) and Suriname, and Israel is sort of north-pointing. There were also some East-West divides in South America, like the Triple Alliance War.