🇰🇵 Flag: North Korea emoji

The flag of North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), a highly isolated East Asian country. The flag features three horizontal stripes: blue representing sovereignty and peace, red symbolizing revolutionary spirit, with white stripes separating them representing purity. A white circle on the red stripe contains a red five-pointed star representing socialism.

North Korea is known for its authoritarian government, nuclear weapons program, extreme isolation from the international community, centrally planned economy, personality cult around the Kim family leadership, mass games and propaganda displays, and tense relationship with South Korea across the heavily fortified DMZ (Demilitarized Zone).

This emoji is used to represent North Korea in discussions about East Asian geopolitics, nuclear issues, Korean Peninsula affairs, or when referencing the Korean War, DMZ, authoritarian governance, and the ongoing division between North and South Korea.

Could also be called North Korean flag, DPRK flag or Democratic People's Republic of Korea flag emoji.

Other meanings

East Asia, nuclear program, authoritarian state, Korean Peninsula, DMZ, isolation

Example Usage

The geopolitical situation involving 🇰🇵 remains complex and tense

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Visual description

A rectangular flag with blue and red horizontal stripes separated by thin white stripes, and a white circle containing a red five-pointed star on the red stripe.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

Flag emojis are often drawn as a "wavy rectangle" with flat vertical lines and curved horizontal lines representing a flag in the wind. Some emoji sets use standard rectangles, rectangles with curved corners or circles.