(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 December 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series of stamps titled “Military Parade Held in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea”. As the KSC describes them, these “stamps were issued to reflect the military parade held in celebration of the 75th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.”
The text continues: “The stamps reflect the parade columns of the revolutionary armed forces equipped with the revolutionary ideology of the WPK, unbounded loyalty and filial piety to the country and people and powerful up-to-date weapons embodying the strength and soul of the Korean people.”
Stamps
The stamps issued are:
- KSC5300: Service personnel of the KPA honour guard hoisting the national flag of the DPRK
- KSC5301: Column of the honour cavalrymen
- KSC5302: Column of the honour cavalrymen
- KSC5303: Paraders
- KSC5304: ParadersKSC5305: Paraders
- KSC5306: Air squadron for the parade
- KSC5307: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5308: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5309: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5310: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5311: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5312: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5313: Columns of mechanized units
- KSC5314: Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, waving back to the enthusiastically cheering paraders and the audience
Sheet compositions
The KSC showed these sheet compositions for individual stamps:
FDCs
The accompanying FDCs for the series:
Postcards
The series comes with a set of postcards:
Technical details
| 1. Stamp (15 values) Stock No.: Sp5300, Sp5301, Sp5302, Sp5303, Sp5304, Sp5305, Sp5306, Sp5307, Sp5308, Sp5309, Sp5310, Sp5311, Sp5312, Sp5313, Sp5314 Size: 35x42mm, 92x107mm Denomination: 50Won, 110Won Price: 0.45$, 1$ Designer: Kim Hae Yong Quantity: 50000 | 2. Entire Postcard (4 values) Stock No.: Ps743, Ps744, Ps745, Ps746 Size: 148x105mm Price: 0.95$ Designer: Kang Chol U Quantity: 1000 |
| 3. FDC (5 values) Stock No.: Fp5300-5302, Fp5303-5305, Fp5306-5309, Fp5310-5313, Fp5314 Size: 162x114mm, 200x140mm Price: 1.75$, 2.2$, 1.4$ Designer: Kang Chol U Quantity: 1000 |
Stamp leaflet
The new issue stamp leaflet for this issue was also released:
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