The president should play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Politician makes unexpected appeal

Han Dong-hoon used the plot of the new Call of Duty to publicly criticize the current South Korean president’s defense policy and recall the price of poor military readiness.

South Korean politician Han Dong-hoon urged the country’s president to play through the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign so that he could assess the consequences of insufficient preparation for a potential military conflict.

The new installment in the series depicts a fictional war on the Korean Peninsula and shows the devastation caused by the escalating confrontation between North and South Korea. The politician paid special attention to the ruined Seoul.

Han Dong-hoon stated that the game helps to visualize the scale of the catastrophe that the country’s lack of readiness for aggression could bring about. He hopes that such events will forever remain merely part of a video game.

The appeal sparked debate: critics fear that such scenarios might fuel fear and hostility toward the neighboring state. In response, the politician recalled North Korea’s invasion on June 25, 1950, and emphasized that military threats cannot be underestimated. In his view, preserving peace requires preparedness even for the worst-case scenario.

Behind the statement lies a political conflict as well: Han Dong-hoon disagrees with the incumbent president’s approach to army funding and national defense. Call of Duty became a way for him to draw attention to this stance.