National Flag of DPRK

National Flag of DPRK

65 years have elapsed since the founding of the DPRK.

Greeting the anniversary day the Koreans look up at the national flag flying in the blue sky.

To look back, deprived of the country by the Japanese imperialists, the Korean people had to suffer all sorts of national humiliation.

A Korean athlete who won an international game was forced to bear a Japanese flag, instead of national flag.

Accused of having erased Japanese flags from pictures, Koreans were imprisoned and tortured.

After liberating Korea from the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism on August 15, Juche 34 (1945), President Kim Il Sung set forth a policy to set up a unified central government and wisely led the struggle for it.

At the same time he matured a plan to institute a national flag of a new state.

At the 3^rd session of the North Korean People’s Assembly on November 18, Juche 36 (1947) he advanced an issue of instituting a national flag and in early February in Juche 37 (1948) acquainted himself with a design of flag and gave precious teachings.

He pointed out that a flag of the Republic to be established should have Korean style form and contents, teaching the ideological contents of flag and the ways of their expression.

He suggested making a national flag by drawing a central red panel, white and blue stripes above and below it, a white circle near the hoist and a five-pointed red star in the circle, a symbol of future victory.

Under his meticulous guidance national flag of the DPRK was completed.

The flag is a red-blue rectangle in the ratio 1:2. It consists of a central red panel, narrow white and blue stripes above and below and white circle near the hoist with a five-pointed red star in it.

The red star is symbolic of the revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle led by Kim Il Sung and the bright future of Korea.

The red panel symbolizes the Korean people’s loyalty to the Party and the leader, socialist patriotism, unbreakable fighting spirit and the invincible might of single-minded unity.

The white circle and white stripes represent that the Korean nation is a homogeneous nation with 5 000 year long history and resplendent culture and the Korean people are a resourceful, diligent and valiant people and heroic people with patriotic, honest and sturdy spirit.

The blue stripes are symbolic of the ardent desire of the Korean people to steadfastly fight for peace, democracy, national independence and socialism, united firmly with the revolutionary people of the world under the banner of anti-imperialist independence.

The Korean people love the national flag and work dynamically, flagging it higher.