CALL OF DUTY AND THE WAR ON KOREA On October 23rd, Call of Duty releases Modern Warfare 4, a game that portrays the DPRK as the enemy and is played by millions. Sovereign Media’s Devianni Ebanks breaks down the controversy surrounding the game. Activists and Korean diaspora groups have accused the game of functioning as a weapon of imperialist propaganda designed to dehumanise North Koreans and manufacture consent for war. The campaign argues that Modern Warfare 4 portrays North Koreans as aggressors while erasing the history of US devastation during the Korean War. According to the statement, the US dropped over 600,000 tons of b*mbs on Korea (3.7 times the amount dropped on Japan during the entire Pacific War) and k*lled more than 3 million Koreans. It also cites the No Gun Ri massacre, where US forces k*lled over 600 people, 72% of them women and children. Today, millions of Koreans still live in the shadow of a war that never ended. Divided families. Mandatory conscription for South Korean men. Camptown prostitution, where US soldiers inflict violence on Korean women. In 2025 alone, the US conducted 274 days of war drills in Korea, rehearsing for n*clear strikes, b*mbing civilian targets, and as*assinations of North Korean leadership. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 does more than depict violence; activists say it trains players to inflict it, both in the US and abroad. Families of the Uvalde school sho*ting victims are suing Activision, Meta, and g*n manufacturer Daniel Defence, noting that the sho*ters in Uvalde, Parkland, and Sandy Hook all played Call of Duty and used AR-15s. Activists also accuse the Pentagon of shaping how games and films depict US wars, arguing that Hollywood and Western media have spent decades dehumanising North Koreans. "War in Korea is not a video game … it's happening in real life," the campaign states. "Don't play the US's game. Fight the real war machine." The release comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and growing scrutiny of the military-entertainment complex.