This Day in Gaming, November 24th
2004: South Korea's Media Board bans the sale of Ghost Recon 2, saying the plotline goes "way too far". Maybe South Korea disliked the highly unrealistic storyline in which a North Korean dictator redirects humanitarian aid to war programs, and then threatens to blow South Korea up.
North Korea, too, responded to the game, calling it just another way Americans show their hatred for North Korea.
October 9, 2006: North Korea is said to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon.
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?
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