The flag of North Korea: blue, red and blue stripes split by thin white lines, with a red star in a white disc. It stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Most online use comes from outside the country: news posts, geography content and satire about its leaders. Few North Koreans have open internet access.
Do not confuse it with ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea. Mixing up the two flags gives real offense; at one Olympic Games, a North Korean team walked off when the South Korean flag was shown next to its players.
Facts
Flag: North Korea ๐ฐ๐ต is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :north_korea: or :flag_north_korea:. People also look for it with words like โKPโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0