File:Vertical Flag of North Korea.svg

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Summary

Description

English: Flag of North Korea in vertical hoisting

Date 10 July 1948 (introduced); 8 September 1948 (official); 1992 (standardized).

Source Own work. This vector image was generated programmatically from geometry defined in File:Flag of North Korea (construction sheet).svg.

Author See File history below for details.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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

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
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)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

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

العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ euskara ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ Gàidhlig ∙ galego ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ қазақша ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Other versions

Alternative colours tone version.

See also categories: Flags of North Korea and SVG flags of North Korea.

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

Historical flags
State flag (1948-1992)

Used colors

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

SVG

iThe source code of this SVG is valid.

This vector image was created with a text editor.

Colours scheme

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`

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:29, 31 July 2024	800 × 1,600 (596 bytes)	Great Brightstar	Code reduction
	15:53, 29 July 2024	800 × 1,600 (606 bytes)	Great Brightstar	Minor tweak
	15:51, 29 July 2024	800 × 1,600 (606 bytes)	Great Brightstar	Rework red star
	03:27, 8 January 2022	600 × 1,200 (357 bytes)	MapGrid	Changed nominal dimension to 600 × 1200. Reduced file size.
	21:48, 31 March 2013	400 × 800 (698 bytes)	SiBr4	From File:Flag of North Korea (Hanging).PNG and File:Flag of North Korea.svg
	13:50, 4 December 2012	800 × 2,400 (4 KB)	Hariboneagle927	User created page with UploadWizard