I see one potential challenge with a US evacuation from Korea / Japan.
Unlike its European counterpart, ships would be sailing relatively close to Soviet waters, so I think its planners would have to be reasonably confident that there was no risk of attack from any remaining elements of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. A single submarine could potentially take out a large chunk of any evacuation fleet.
(We can debate backwards and forwards on this board about how many ships various Navies might have operational by that stage in the War, but that's not my point - my point is that unless those charged with actually planning such a mission in the T2K timeline were confident that the risk of Soviet naval action against the fleet was minimal (or they felt they had adequate defences against any such action) there would be an element of risk attached)
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