Politics

The DPRK’s name, flag and emblem, symbols of the country, are quite meaningful.

The country’s full name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The name reflects the independent, democratic and people-oriented characters of the country.

During the building of a new Korea after liberation, the Korean people were faced with the task of carrying out the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution and building socialism in the future. Taking into account both the immediate task and fundamental purpose of the Korean revolution, naming new Korea Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was most reasonable, and it won full support and approval from all the people.

The flag of the country consists of a central, broad red panel, bordered both above and below by a narrow white stripe and a broad blue stripe. The central red panel bears a five-pointed red star within a white circle near the hoist.

The five-pointed red star of the flag symbolizes the revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle carried forward by the government of the Republic, the revolutionary stamina of the Korean people and the bright future of the steadily prospering country. The red panel of the flag symbolizes the blood shed by the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters and heroic soldiers who devotedly fought for the freedom and independence of the country and for the people’s power and the invincible revolutionary forces of the people united single-heartedly around the Party and the leader.

The white circle and two white stripes of the flag symbolize the fact that the Korean nation is a nation with a time-honoured history of thousands of years and brilliant culture and that the Koreans are the patriotic and upright people with a strong fighting spirit.

The two broad blue stripes of the flag symbolize the revolutionary stamina of the people who, holding aloft the banner of proletarian internationalism and independence against imperialism, are struggling for peace and democracy and for the victory of the common cause of socialism, united with the peoples of socialist countries and other revolutionary peoples of the world, and the sovereignty of the country.

The emblem of the country features a hydropower station in the oval rim depicting a red band of rice ears with the full name of the country written on the middle of it, Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of the Korean revolution, above the power station and a five-pointed red star shining over the mountain.

Mt Paektu, the five-pointed star and its rays symbolize the glorious revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and the bright future of the Korean people vigorously advancing towards the victory of the socialist cause.

The hydropower station and rice ears symbolize the might of the country’s industry and agriculture and the prospects of their development. The oval shape of the emblem rimmed with a red band symbolizes the eternity of the invincible single-minded unity of the people rallied closely around the Party and the leader and the prosperity and rosy future of the country.

The country’s full name written on the red band symbolizes the fact that it is an independent socialist state with a firm political foundation and solid economic basis and the most democratic state which lets broad masses of the people participate in state affairs.