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0 pointsmjr001y ago0 comments

Your question was

> can somebody here make a case that this is not actually/solely to appease China (over Taiwan presumably)?

I gave one (of many) examples where this would be relevant for a country other than China. If you don't think South Korea is politically important enough to matter, then use the Israel/Palestinian flag situation as something that certainly is.

Or more simply: no, this is not just because of China and Taiwan.

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fsckboy1y ago

saying "it's North Korea" does not make a case that it's North Korea (especially when I acknowledged these disputes are all around the world, indicating that I understood that already). Fail.

zinekeller1y ago

There are ROK (South Korea) laws banning the display of DPRK (North Korea) imagery (and more), including the DPRK flag. Microsoft considers the SK market important enough that it has a separate version of Windows (the KN subvariant), so it's not really far-fetched that this is a consideration too.

Symbiote1y ago

The ban on "display" of the DPRK flag means flying the flag in public or on a building, it doesn't mean viewing the file on a computer.

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