The Korea's Ridiculous Flag War

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It's no secret that North and South Korea don't get along very well. When they aren't busy shooting across the DMZ, or sinking each others ships, they're usually throwing threats to annihilate each other.

Despite this, there is one area along the DMZ known as the Joint Security Area, which was designed for the two nations to actually talk their problems out. But sadly, the conflict between the two nations doesn't stop there, it just gets . . .weirder.

Like that one time negotiations were stopped when the two sides couldn't agree on a flag size.

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Or that other time when everything was halted for a dance-off.

It was the 1950s, at the cease-fire hadn't been in effect for that long. The North  and the United States sat down for some talks as to how to end the conflict. The meeting didn't go on for long before the US realized that the North Korean flag was slightly larger than their own. Naturally, nothing can trump the American flag so the meeting was halted until a larger American one could be found.

Oh yes, you know exactly where this is going. The two sides began to spar, with each one halting the meeting to find larger and larger flags.

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"Suck it North Korea! ..."

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"... shit."

The contest reached the point where both flags were literally impossible to fit into the meeting room. Where the laws of common sense failed, the laws of physics had to come in and stop the madness.

The two sides were brought back to the negotiating table not to discuss ending the violence, but to talk about the size of the flags to place in the room so that then they could talk about ending the conflict. It took nearly eleven and a half hours of negotiations before the two sides decided to simply place two identically sized flags in the room.

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And people wonder why the two countries are still technically at war.

And don't think the ridiculousness stopped there. They later got into a contest as to who could build a taller flagpole. North Korea is currently winning with one that is 525 feet tall.