Banner o North Korea
The Banner o North Korea wis adopted on September 8, 1948, as the naitional banner an ensign. The red starn o Communism can be seen on this banner on a white disc. North Korea haed originally adoptit a "taegeukgi" follaein unthrildom frae Japan wi a taoist yin-yang seembol similar tae that in the Sooth Korean flag but later revised its flag to more closely reflect that o the USSR. The banner wis adopted in 1948, when North Korea became an independent Communist state. The traditional Korean flag wis red, white, an blue. The kintra retained these colors (wi mair prominence given tae the red) an addit a red starn on a white disk. The disk recalls the taegeuk foond on the banner o Sooth Korea, an represents the opposin principles o nature. The red stripe expresses revolutionary traditions; the red starn is for Communism. The twa blue stripes staund for sovereignty, peace an friendship. The white stripe seembolizes purity.
A 600-lb (270 kg) North Korean naitional banner flies frae the warld's lairgest flagpole, which is locatit at Kijŏng-dong, on the North Korean side o the Military Demarcation Line athin the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The flag-pole is 160m tall.
The banner o North Korea slichtly resembles the banners o Thailand an Costa Rica.
There ar few other kent banners in use. There is a banner for the Korean People's Army, as well as its twa subdeevisions the Korean Peoples' Air Force an Korean Peoples' Navy, which follae a common design but wi different colors (blue an white for the Navy an Air Force blue an white for the Air Force). There is an' a' a bannner o the rulin Wirker's Pairty o Korea, modeled efter similar communist pairty banners, an a banner for the Supreme Commander o the KPA uised bi Kim Jong-il, an haes the Supreme Commander's Airms on a red field.
