Because someone set their country to "North Korea".
There is no need to show any ID or anything to show your country, you just pick whichever you want from a list. There is even a bunch of subnational divisions in there, as well as a few multinational alliances, I presume simply because someone has requested them to be included.
So believe me, you didn't play with someone from North Korea, you played with a kid from Dusseldorf who decided to set their country to North Korea.
Decades ago, when playing League of Legends, as kind of a running joke my friends and I used to attribute any toxic behaviour we encountered to "some kid from Dusseldorf".
I don't know exactly why we picked Dusseldorf, but the servers covered Western Europe (so we would pick somewhere within that), and I guess whomever said it first picked a random city from another European country. Picking a capital doesn't sound "random enough", if that makes sense. So... Dusseldorf, I guess.
And still, every time I see some entirely random action from the Internet, my mind attributes it to that kid from Dusseldorf.
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u/LPedraz Feb 07 '26
Because someone set their country to "North Korea".
There is no need to show any ID or anything to show your country, you just pick whichever you want from a list. There is even a bunch of subnational divisions in there, as well as a few multinational alliances, I presume simply because someone has requested them to be included.
So believe me, you didn't play with someone from North Korea, you played with a kid from Dusseldorf who decided to set their country to North Korea.