Stamp made in North Korea, 1993, called:”The 60th Anniversary of Wangjaesan Meeting”. On March 11, Juche 22 (1933), the President convened on Mt Wangjae a meeting of chiefs of underground revolutionary organizations and political workers in the Onsong area, at which he made a speech “To Spread and Develop the Armed Struggle into the Homeland”. The Wangjaesan Meeting served as a prelude to spreading and developing the anti-Japanese armed struggle deep into the homeland and set up a new milestone in the development of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle in Korea.
Complete set of stamps made in North Korea, 1994, called:”The 30th Anniversary of Publication of “Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country” by Kim Il Sung”.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1994, for the 20th Anniversary of Publication of “Program for Modelling the Whole Society on the Juche Idea” by Kim Jong Il.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1996, for the 50th anniversary of Korean Children’s Union. The Korean Children’s Union is the precursor to the Socialist Patriotic Youth League of North Korea contributing to North Korean youth movement and pioneer movement. It is for children aged six to fifteen and is a political organisation linked to the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1999, for the 80th Anniversary of 1 March Uprising 1999. The March 1st Movement was a protest movement by Korean people and students calling for independence from Japan, and protesting forced assimilation into the Japanese way of life. Thirty-three Korean cultural and religious leaders issued a proclamation, supported by thousands of students and civilians in Seoul. There were over 1000 demonstrations in many other cities. They were brutally suppressed, with Korean historian Park Eun-sik reporting about 7,500 killed and 16,000 wounded, and 46,000 arrested. These were among the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the rule of Korea by Japan from 1910 to 1945. The event occurred on March 1, 1919.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1999, for the 40th anniversary of the Worker Peasant Red Guards. The Worker Peasant Red Guards is a paramilitary force in North Korea. It is the largest civil defense force in North Korea. It was established on January 14, 1959 by Kim Il Sung. The militia is organized on a provincial/City and town/village level, and structured on a brigade, battalion, company, and platoon basis. Its strength is estimated at 5 million personnel.
Sheet of stamps made in North Korea, 1998, about the 1000-ri journey by Kim Il Sung. The 1000ri long (250miles/400km.) journey Kim Il Sung has made on foot when he was 13 years old in 1922. He made the journey to protest the Japanese occupation by japan and did it in thirteen days. Half the journey was on pathless track and he was exposed to wild beasts in the area. He went to a foreign country not to come back until Korea was an independed country. Sometimes the jouney is used as a training exercise that challenges the limits of men but only by some troops such as the special forces or marines. In 2008 a study tour for tracing the course of the 1,000-ri journey for national liberation made up of school youth and children from across the country came to a successful end.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1998, for celebrating the 86th. birthday of Kim Il Sung. Kim was the son of parents who fled to Manchuria during his childhood to escape the Japanese rule of Korea. He attended elementary school in Manchuria and, while still a student, joined a communist youth organization. He was arrested and jailed for his activities with the group in 1929–30. After Kim’s release from prison, he joined the Korean guerrilla resistance against the Japanese occupation sometime during the 1930s and adopted the name of an earlier legendary Korean guerrilla fighter against the Japanese. Kim was noticed by the Soviet military authorities, who sent him to the Soviet Union for military and political training. There he joined the local Communist Party. During World War II, Kim led a Korean contingent as a major in the Soviet army. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Korea was effectively divided between a Soviet-occupied northern half and a U.S.-supported southern half. At this time Kim returned with other Soviet-trained Koreans to establish a communist provisional government under Soviet auspices in what would become North Korea. He became the first premier of the newly formed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948, and in 1949 he became chairman of the Korean Workers’ (communist) Party. In 1950 the Korean war started. . With help of Chinese support he was able to repel a subsequent invasion of North Korea by UN forces. The Korean War ended in a stalemate in 1953. Kim Il Sung was leader of North Korea from 1948 until 1994 when he died. He outlived Stalin by 4 decades, Mao Zedong with 2, and stayed in power long enough to outrun 6 South Korean presidents, 9 USA presidents and 21 Japanese prime ministers. After his death his son Kim Jong Il became the leader of North Korea. The North Korean government to this day refers Kim Il Sung as the Supreme Leader and the Eternal President.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1998, made in honour of the 1000ri long (250miles/400km.) journey Kim Il Sung has made on foot when he was 13 years old in 1922. He made the journey to protest the Japanese occupation by japan and did it in thirteen days. Half the journey was on pathless track and he was exposed to wild beasts in the area. He went to a foreign country not to come back until Korea was an independed country. Sometimes the jouney is used as a training exercise that challenges the limits of men but only by some troops such as the special forces or marines. In 2008 a study tour for tracing the course of the 1,000-ri journey for national liberation made up of school youth and children from across the country came to a successful end.
Price: 1.00 euro Size: 9.8x7cm./3.8×2.7inch. Year: 2003
Minisheet made in North Korea, 2003 with the victory monument in Musan. The battles in the Musan area were fought under command of Kim Il Sung. The Korean people erected the monument in the 1970s in commemoration of the victory in the battles of the Musan area against the Japanese imperialists. The monument was rebuilt afterwards.
Set of 3 North Korean stamps about the 50th. anniversary of the Worker’s party.
The Workers’ Party of Korea is the founding and ruling political party of North Korea. It is the largest party in North Korea with two other legal parties making up the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. However, these minor parties are completely subservient to the WPK and must accept the WPK’s “leading role” as a condition of their existence.It was founded in 1945 with the merger of the Workers’ Party of North Korea and the Workers’ Party of South Korea. The WPK also controls the Korean People’s Army.
The WPK is organized according to the Monolithic Ideological System and the Great Leader, a system and theory conceived by Kim Yong Ju and Kim Jong Il.
Although the WPK is organizationally similar to communist parties, in practice it is far less institutionalized and informal politics plays a larger role than usual.Kim Jong Un is the current WPK leader, serving as Chairman.
The WPK is committed to Juche, an ideology which has been described as a combination of collectivism and nationalism.
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