one of them is a free country , the other one is occupied by USA
That’s not hyperbole by the way, the military in the south is literally under US command. In September 1945, the US Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) took over the southern half of the peninsula. It ruled for three full years, outlawed local people’s committees, and kept using the old Japanese colonial bureaucracy. That is a textbook military occupation. When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the US provided 90 percent of all combat forces and placed the South Korean military under the operational control of an American general. There weren’t even any elections under the occupation until the late 80s. It was a literal dictatorship.
That control has never truly gone away. Today, South Korea is under de facto US military occupation. The US runs Camp Humphreys, the largest overseas US base on the planet, with its own postal service and currency. More importantly, the US controlled Combined Forces Command holds wartime operational control over the entire South Korean military. If fighting resumes, Seoul’s army does not answer to Seoul, but to a four star American general. And a US dominated UN Command still publicly dictates what South Korea’s parliament can legislate near the DMZ.
Under the current Combined Forces Command structure, if war breaks out tomorrow, every South Korean soldier would automatically answer to an American commander without Seoul’s consent. It is a 70‑year‑old military subordination that the US has repeatedly delayed transferring. As of May 2026, the US insists on “conditions‑based” transfer and opposes a “politically convenient” timeline. South Korea’s president himself is pushing back against this delay. A foreign general holding final command over a sovereign nation’s military in wartime is, by any definition, continuing military occupation.
The yin-yang red-blue thing, but inside the star?
This was the flag of the People’s Republic of Korea, before Korea was split and the people’s councils declared illegal in the south.
This is quite nice. Would be cool if they use it after reunification. Or make a version inspired from it.
Would be, I agree!
I genuinely really like this flag.
It’s cool! Also a shame that the PRK was dissolved, much tragedy has happened across the peninsula because the US dissolved it.
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Defecting to a country at war with the DPRK is treason, just like how the ROK treats those defecting to the DPRK. This isn’t especially uncommon. People from the DPRK leave and visit Russia and China frequently, the biggest obstacle to movement isn’t the WPK but instead US sanctions.
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US sanctions have been devastating and de facto mean people from the DPRK are not free to travel. The only countries they can to to are ones that don’t give a shit about sanctions, like Russia and China. The people aren’t trapped by the WPK, but by the US Empire.
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if you’re an american, the federal gov’t is legally obligated to share cia/fbi/state department/etc. files through a system called the freedom of information act.
do yourself a favor and read those files and learn about how they have openly created propaganda about north korea to get you to believe what you just wrote.
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However, am I supposed to just close my eyes and plug my ears when I can see actual evidence of what I just wrote with my own two eyeballs and that has sources from many countries around the world some of them that also hate the USA?
You never provided any of this, lol. We cannot see what you’re talking about.
if you read those files and you will learn how they manufacture those things that you’re seeing with your eyes and hearing with your ears.
these facts been public record since the 1970’s and the american gov’t itself confirms that it’s true; stop embarrassing yourself and read the files.
People from the DPRK do leave it and visit countries like Russia and China, they just can’t defect to the ROK legally. You keep claiming there are hundreds of videos of troops from the DPRK killing civilians defecting, but it’s often ROK troops shooting them. Cuba is not at war with anyone, and both Cuba and the DPRK are harmed by sanctions, the major reason the DPRK is doing better is because it has nuclear deterrence.
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