KSC5300-5314: Military Parade Held in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea

New Releases DPRK

(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
Stamps KSC5300-5313
Souvenir sheet KSC5314

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:

Ps743: Paraders
Ps744: Column of mechanized unit
Ps745: Column of mechanized unit
Ps746: Column of mechanized unit

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:

New issue leaflet (page 1) for KSC5300-5314
New issue leaflet (page 2) for KSC5300-5314
New issue leaflet (page 3) for KSC5300-5314

All images in page copyright: 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation.

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