Capital

Pyongyang

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1948

Designer

Not individually credited

North Korea

Colors and meaning

• Blue #024FA2

  Sovereignty, peace and friendship

• Red #ED1C27

  Revolutionary spirit

• White #FFFFFF

  Purity

Symbolism and history

A red band bearing a white disc and a red five-pointed star sits between narrow white and broad blue bands, adopted in 1948 to replace the plain red flag with a Taeguk symbol that had been under consideration, keeping the disc but swapping the Taeguk for a communist star.

Closest-looking flags

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  South Korea

  The white disc echoes the taegeuk circle at the center of South Korea's flag, a visual reminder of the peninsula's shared pre-division vexillological history.

Further reading: Flag of North Korea on Wikipedia