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This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Hungary: Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code, Section 335
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Republic of China in Taiwan's National Security Act (bans mainly affect flags of the People's Republic of China and symbols reflect the Chinese Communist Party)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Bans no longer in effect include:

Moldova: LPC192/2012^ro,ru
Poland: Art. 256 of the Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553 of the criminal code has removed references to imagery and now only covers promotion of communist ideas
United States: had state and city laws; Supreme Court declared these unconstitutional in Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

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Alternative colours tone version.

Current flags
State flag: 10 July 1948 (introduced); 8 September 1948 (official); 1992 (standardized).
Vertical display
Construction sheet

Historical flags
State flag (1948-1992)

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Used colors

red	rendered as `RGB 237 028 039`
white	rendered as `RGB 255 255 255`
blue	rendered as `RGB 002 079 162`

Colours scheme[edit]

The video colors approximation is listed below:

	Blue	Red	White
RGB	`2/79/162`	`237/28/39`	`255/255/255`
Hexadecimal	`#024FA2`	`#ED1C27`	`#FFFFFF`
CMYK	`99/51/0/36`	`0/88/84/7`	`0/0/0/0`

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This work was first published in North Korea and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, enacted 2001, amended 2006 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is a work of an institution, enterprise or organization, and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is a "work whose publication, issuance, performance, broadcasting, show and exhibition is prohibited" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
It is ineligible for copyright protection because it is a "document for state management" without a commercial purpose

English ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 조선말 ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

Legal disclaimer
This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Hungary: Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code, Section 335
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Republic of China in Taiwan's National Security Act (bans mainly affect flags of the People's Republic of China and symbols reflect the Chinese Communist Party)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Bans no longer in effect include:

Moldova: LPC192/2012^ro,ru
Poland: Art. 256 of the Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553 of the criminal code has removed references to imagery and now only covers promotion of communist ideas
United States: had state and city laws; Supreme Court declared these unconstitutional in Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

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current	22:10, 24 October 2011	1,600 × 800 (873 bytes)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	typo
	00:24, 1 May 2011	1,600 × 800 (873 bytes)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	from talk page
	04:14, 17 January 2011	1,440 × 720 (2 KB)	Fry1989 (talk \| contribs)	Yes, but a majority of them show it like this, and until you find sources, pics are all wehave and that's better then nothing at all.Back to the star and red section are same red
	04:13, 17 January 2011	1,600 × 800 (873 bytes)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	The official DPRK specs do not give anything about colors to my knowledge (or that could be found) but I think we need actual links instead of "based on photos" because we seen lighter colors before.
	03:33, 17 January 2011	1,440 × 720 (2 KB)	Fry1989 (talk \| contribs)	slightly lighter blue and red
	03:30, 17 January 2011	1,440 × 720 (2 KB)	Fry1989 (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 22:20, 2 July 2010 based on pics, till you have a source
	06:07, 12 July 2010	1,600 × 800 (873 bytes)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	http://ifes.kyungnam.ac.kr/admin/upload_File/document/%EC%A1%B0%EC%84%A0%EB%AF%BC%EC%A3%BC%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EC%9D%B8%EB%AF%BC%EA%B3%B5%ED%99%94%EA%B5%AD%20%EA%B5%AD%EA%B8%B0%EB%B2%95.doc is the construction law (text only, trying to get paper form with t
	22:20, 2 July 2010	1,440 × 720 (2 KB)	Fry1989 (talk \| contribs)	final red from Worker's Party flag
	22:18, 2 July 2010	1,440 × 720 (2 KB)	Fry1989 (talk \| contribs)	blue
	22:15, 2 July 2010	1,440 × 720 (2 KB)	Fry1989 (talk \| contribs)	new colours based of images from Air Koryo

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