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South Korea Bans Anti-North Korea Video Games

South Korea Bans Anti-North Korea Video Games

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The Korea Media Rating Board (KMRB) has told North American and European game developers that they will be banning any game that portrays North Korea as an aggressive military dictatorship.

“Korea continues to have society members who experienced the Korean War, families that are separated. If you export cultural products such as movies, you have to understand the culture of that country. Games like Ghost Recon 2 assume that North Korea has nuclear weapons at a time when we are unable to verify their possession of nuclear weapons. If we were to allow distribution, the users might perceive an unreal opinion, one that is unfavorable in an international setting,” Lee Chan Gyeong of the KMRB commented.

“People want to make peace on the Korean peninsula, so North Korea is not seen as an enemy for the South Korean people. North Korea is our adversary. In another way, it is our partner for the future. Americans are trying to find an imaginary enemy. Before it was the Soviet Union,” Hannah Kim, a twenty-five year-old student, stated.

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