Call of Duty puts North Korea invasion at centre of new game as makers defend ‘sensitive’ setting

The world's best-selling video game shooter franchise has chosen one of the most entrenched real-world conflicts as the setting for its next instalment, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 thrusting players into a full-scale North Korean invasion of South Korea. –

The game’s developers Infinity Ward are already bracing for potential controversy around the decision, which will present a fictional version of what for many millions of people living in the Korean peninsula is a very real threat. The Korean war ended in 1953 with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, meaning the two countries technically still remain at war.