South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung has been urged by critics to play the latest instalment in the blockbuster Call of Duty video game franchise to better appreciate the need for defences against an invasion by the North.
The call from opposition lawmakers follows the release on Friday of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a first-person shooter depicting a full-scale surprise attack by North Korea on the South. Players fight North Korean troops as Park Hyun-jun, a private in the South Korean Marine Corps.
The game depicts urban combat in central Seoul and includes a mission to raid a North Korean leadership compound resembling the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the former residence turned mausoleum of the North’s founding supreme leader Kim Il-sung.