Here are some Americans burning a NK flag.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=527776200589623725&q=north+korean+flag+burning&total=20&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

I support the defeat of a constitutional amendment that would make it illegal to burn the American flag. I don’t like to see things wasted by deliberately destroying them in any manner, material objects that are only going to be replaced anyway. But if you choose to buy a flag with your own money and burn it, that’s your business, not mine or anyone else’s. As long as the fire doesn’t endanger anyone or harm anything that belongs to someone other than the one burning his own flag. I’m a loyal, patriotic American citizen; I revere the laws of this nation, especially the Constitution. I honor what the flag represents but the flag itself is an icon made of cloth and although its design is a reminder of the values of our country, the flag is nothing but an idol and I am not an idol worshiper. My reverence is for the principles, the concepts intended to result in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I value a nation that protects its people not just from an outside source of danger but from its own encroachment on individuality and a citizen’s right to express his own perspective. If one cares to do it by purchasing a flag and destroying it, he is wasting his own money. Yes, he’s doing it as a symbolic act of hostility and disrespect for something, maybe even everything going on in America. I do it at the ballot box while another may want to do it by burning a piece of fabric. I do not favor legislation that forbids it.

Mr. Hatch’s reasoning is quite sound.  An act of flag burning by an American will immediately embolden the maniacal leader of North Korea to launch a nuclear war on America.