This postage stamp was issued on 15 April 2003 by North Korea (= Scott Catalogue # 4292). Many countries issue large numbers of different stamps intended to be purchased by collectors and not used on mail. Trucial States famously did this in the 1960s and 1970s, but other countries have since adopted the practice, including America. North Korea produces many stamps that are solely intended to be acquired by tourists and collectors. Because of this, they are not really postage stamps. However, some have attractive designs and colors.
This 12 won postage stamp is part of set showing medals "awarded" to Kim Il Sung, the evil, mass murdering dictator and founder of communist North Korea. This one depicts Mongolia's Order of Sukhbaatar medal. Sukhbaatar was also a communist. The stamps were issued to mark the 91st anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth in 1912.
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