North Korea
Shape
Asia · Eastern Asia
Outline not to scale
About the flag
North Korea's flag has a wide red stripe edged with thin white stripes between two blue stripes, with a red five-pointed star in a white circle towards the flagpole. It was adopted in 1948. Red is usually explained as revolutionary tradition, white as purity and blue as the wish for peace.
Often confused with
Only the names are similar: South Korea's flag is white with a red and blue circle and four black trigrams.
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