why is their flag looks so fucking awesome?

>>76477444
You have to go back

And then OP was arrested for spreading North Korean propaganda

>>76477444
t. red/black beret bully

>>76477444
Awesome flag

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>>76477444
>>76479096
That was probably the moment that Lebedev decided to abolish the flag, despite the fact that Kim Tu Bong expressed support for its usage.

A few months later, Pak Il got a call from Moscow. His interlocutor dictated to him the design for a new flag, which Pak carefully transcribed. Unfortunately, we will probably never know who designed the new flag and what he had in mind, though there is a slim chance that he might still be alive.

The new flag, which would be called “the Flag of the Republic” in the North and “the Flag of the People’s Republic” in the South, was yet to be adopted officially. For a few months the Flag of the Great Extremes remained in use. The last notable event at which it was hoisted was the 1948 meeting between Kim Il Sung and Kim Gu, a prominent nationalist politician from the South.

However, by July that year it was all over. The communist proto-parliament, the Northern Korean People’s Assembly, formally voted to adopt the new flag. Kim Tu Bong personally took down the Flag of the Great Extremes and installed the new one in its place. The South Korean National Archive has a small video showing this historic event:

>>76482708
Ten days after the new flag was adopted, Kim Tu Bong gave a press conference explaining the decision, and in August 1948 published a book entitled, “On the Establishing of the New National Flag and the Abolition of the Flag of the Great Extremes”. Ironically, the book was published about the same time the Republic of Korea was established in Seoul… with the Flag of the Great Extremes as its national flag.

The book is interesting, probably the most un-North Korean North Korean book this author has ever read. It is written in slightly archaic, very pompous Korean and has zero references to Kim Il Sung; moreover, its very tone is very different from the average North Korean text: Kim Tu Bong addresses the people who disagree with the flag change and tries to explain the reasons behind it, without calling his opponents traitors and/or American or Japanese spies. In North Korean publications the possibility of an average citizen opposing an official decision, or just failing to support it vigorously enough, is not normally discussed.

The book is divided into seven chapters, all shaped around a specific thesis: ▲ The New Flag is the symbol of the newly emerging country with a bright future; ▲ The New Flag is the symbol of the prosperous and harmonious country; ▲ The New Flag is the symbol of the happy country developing in brilliance; ▲ The Flag of Great Extremes contradicts the nature of the new democratic order; ▲ The “scientific” reasons beyond the Flag of Great Extremes are, in fact, unscientific and superstitious; ▲ From the very beginning, there was no standard meaning, nor standard design, for the Flag of Great Extremes; and ▲ Due to the needless unintelligibility of the Flag of Great Extremes, its multifariousness causes disunity.

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>>76482708
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>>76482749
>>76482708
Pretty interesting desu senpai

>>76482843
The fact that the majority of the book was dedicated not to the symbol of a happy country developing in brilliance but rather to the flag contradicting the nature of the new democratic order, causes one to think that maybe the major reason why Kim Tu Bong wrote it was to make himself believe that the flag change was the right thing to do. After all, he had been quite supportive of the old flag just a year earlier.

In any case, over the years to come North Korea grew more and more independent from the USSR and Kim Il Sung began to design a new, self-centred, version of history. The active phase began in 1967, 19 years after the old flag was removed and 9 years after the man who removed it, Kim Tu Bong, was removed as well. In the new version of North Korean history it was to be Kim Il Sung and his glorious Korean People’s Revolutionary Army who defeated Imperial Japan, with a little bit of help from the USSR, and the Ever-Victorious Iron-Willed Brilliant Commander himself who directed the creation of the new state. Obviously, the new myth contained no place for the Flag of the Great Extremes, and all mentions of it were removed and all photos of the events where the old flag was hoisted were edited according to the party line. Here are two examples.