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Hong Kong Stamp Expo 2004 (set of 2)
DPRK ranges even further afield by choosing Chinese astronauts as the subject of cards issued for this 2004 stamp expo in Hong Kong. You might compare these two cards with those in entry 20312172: bilingual Korean/Chinese texts on the front and in the very large pre-printed stamps on the backs. Grade: 1

Code: 20312173
Price: $16.00
Kim Jong-il visits China (set of 3)
Not immediately apparent from the fronts of these three unused cards, but the pre-printed large and photo-like stamps on the back make it abundantly clear that this was a State visit. The captions are only in Korean, and identical (우의 람의 벽화 부분) which we make out to be something like part of a mural towards “Friendship of People”. Grade: 1

Code: 20312174
Price: $19.00
100th Birthday of Deng Xiao Ping (set of 2)
Set of two unused cards from 2004, captioned only in Korean with Deng’s name (등소평) and each with an impressively large photographic pre-printed stamp also showing Deng. We hasten to mention that we know Chairman Deng was not Korean. Grade: 1

Code: 20312175
Price: $12.00
Sea birds (set of 4)
A set of four unused cards, whose pre-printed stamps show different birds (and scientific names) than what’s on the front. The captions are in Korean only (example: 고니, swan) and do identify what’s on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 20312176
Price: $14.00
Table Tennis (set of 7)
The backs of these seven cards are blank, so the scan gives you the best idea of what the set is all about. Only one of the cards has the (Chinese, we need to verify this) caption, and the rest are left to speak for themselves. Grade: 1

Code: 20312177
Price: $21.00
New Year 2006 (set of 5)
Please refer back to our entry 20312169 for the first of our New Year sets. Here is 2006, also unused, though our scan shows everything differently. We cannot stress enough how thin and insubstantial these cards are–little more than light paper–yet they really are postcards, and have pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20312178
Price: $25.00
New Year 2007 (set of 5)
In 2007, someone caught on that the paper stock from previous years wasn’t quite right. For 2007, still not exactly sturdy, but better. Our scan shows parts of all five of the unused cards, each with pre-printed postage. Just FYI, the Korean text at the bottom of the card in the upper left says “New Year Congratulations” (새해를 축하합니다), benignly. Grade: 1

Code: 20312179
Price: $25.00
Moran Hill (set of 3)
We don’t usually cite such long excerpts, but once again from Wikipedia we tell you about Moran Hill (Moranbong) in Pyongyang: “The hill is associated with the revolutionary history of President Kim Il-sung, leader Kim Jong-il. and his wife Kim Jong-suk. At the foot of the hill, Kim Il-sung in the 1940s allegedly gave a public speech after returning from exile. At the foot of the hill is the Jonsung revolutionary site, which conveys the “revolutionary achievements” of Kim Il-sung and the Hungbu revolutionary site which is associated with the history of Kim Jong-il and includes trees bearing slogans written during the independence revolutionary struggle.” Take it from there. A set of three unused cards, captioned only in Korean, and with modest pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20312180
Price: $12.00
New Year 2008 (set of 5)
Similar in theme to our previous DPRK New Year entries, and with heavier paper stock than the years before 2007. A set of five unused cards, with pre-printed postage, for domestic use and entirely in Korean. Grade: 1

Code: 20312181
Price: $25.00
Basketball
Unused card from 2008 with colourful pre-printed postage bearing the 2008 Beijing Olympics logo. The caption is in Korean and English, but only says “Basketball”. Grade: 1

Code: 20312182
Price: $8.00
New Year 2009 (set of 5)
Set of five unused cards, with pre-printed postage for domestic use. Grade: 1

Code: 20312184
Price: $19.00
2009 China World Stamp Expo (set of 2)
Two unused cards with large, colourful, and matching pre-printed postage. Captions are only in Korean; the one on the card with flowers says “모란” (Moran, like the hill in Pyongyang) but the other (백마사) does not help us. Grades: 1

Code: 20312185
Price: $9.00
Heron
Unused 2009 card with large and colourful pre-printed postage. What you need to know: the main caption is in Korean (왜가리 = Heron) and “scientific” (Ardea cinerea), which is indeed a Grey heron. The stamp seems to show the same birds, but with a scientific name of Anthropoides paradisea, which is a Blue crane, the national bird of South Africa. Someone got confused; we’re just reporting. Grade: 1

Code: 20312186
Price: $6.00
Catalpa ovata
Unused card with similar-theme pre-printed postage. Captioned in Korean and with the scientific name. Catalpa ovata, the yellow or Chinese catalpa, is a pod-bearing tree native to China, typically reaching heights between 20 and 30 feet (6 and 9 m). The creamy white flowers with distinctly yellow tinging bloom in July and August …. its fruits are very narrow, foot-long pods. Although native to the more temperate provinces within China, C. ovata is also cultivated in North America and Europe, and has become a parent of Catalpa × erubescens with the American species Catalpa bignonioides. It is commonly used to make the undersides of qin. So we finally got to the good news. Grade: 1

Code: 20312187
Price: $4.00
Baseball (야구)
Unused card from 2009, large and colourful pre-printed postage, and captioned in Korean and English. We’re waiting for a genuine World Series. We mean, if football can do it, why not baseball? Grade: 1

Code: 20312188
Price: $14.00
Buteo buteo
Unused card from “Birdpex” in 2009. The caption is in Korean and the scientific name Buteo buteo (Common buzzard), while submitting the Korean on the front (저광이) just yields “The low light,” so that’s no help. There is pre-printed postage with a bird, but not a buzzard. It’s Coturnicops exquisitus, which is Swinhoe’s rail. This is far more than you wanted to know, we know. Grade: 1

Code: 20312189
Price: $6.00
Platalea minor
Platalea minor is the black-faced spoonbill, who makes a guest appearance on this 2009 card on the front and also in the pre-printed postage on the back. The caption is in Korean, with the scientific name. Grade: 1

Code: 20312191
Price: $4.00
Chameleo dilepis
Unused 2009 card. The pre-printed postage is, however, of a crocodile. Grade: 1

Code: 20312192
Price: $5.00
World Soccer Championships
It’s fair to call this a specialty card. From 2006, unused, and with full-colour pre-printed postage, the English part of the caption (if it’s hard to see in the scan) says: “A glimpse into the match of DPR Korean team in the 8th World Soccer Championships, London”. Grade: 1

Code: 20312193
Price: $12.00
New Year 2010 (set of 5)
Unused set of five, with pre-printed postage for domestic use. Grade: 1

Code: 20312194
Price: $25.00
Tiger
Unused card, large and colourful pre-printed postage. Captioned “Tiger” in Korean and English. Grade: 1

Code: 20312195
Price: $4.00
Felis catus (group of 2)
No, these two are not the same 2010 card. The background photo is the same, and the reverses are also the same (pre-printed postage; captions in Korean and the scientific name). But look closely at the bottom of the upper card and see the logo for “International Youth Stamp Collectors’ Exhibition Europhila 2010, October 2-3, Stockholm, Sweden”. We’ve decided to sell these as a pair, but if you only want one, tell us which one and it will be $6. Grades: 1

Code: 20312196
Price: $9.00
Pelecanus onocrotalus
Unused card whose pre-printed postage is of Brachyramphus perdix, the Long-billed murrelet, a small seabird from the North Pacific. It is an unusual member of the auk family, often nesting far inland in old growth forests. Grade: 1

Code: 20312197
Price: $4.00
Orchids
Oops! This unused card with its pre-printed postage of Epidendrum radiatum (also an orchid, but from Central America), like many other cards has a bilingual caption on the back, in Korean and English. HOWEVER–and this is one reason why we still enjoy doing this, for the surprises–when we put the Korean (란과 식물) caption in for translation, it came back as “What is the plant?” We guess, if the orchids they are showing come from Central America, they have a good reason for not knowing! Grade: 1

Code: 20312198
Price: $8.00
Table-tennis (Pak Yung-sun)
Unused 2010 card with a very large, round, coloured pre-printed postage. Pak Yung-sun won several medals between 1974 and 1981 in Asian and World Table Tennis Championships. Grade: 1

Code: 20312199
Price: $6.00
New Year 2011 (set of 5)
Set of five unused cards, and like others in the New Year sequence, they have pre-printed postage for domestic use. Grade: 1

Code: 20312200
Price: $25.00
Equus burchelli bohmi (sic)
Equus burchelli boehmi (the correct spelling) is variously called a Plains Zebra, Grant’s Zebra, and Boehm’s Zebra. Whichever it is, they share space with other animals on this unused 2010 card, and with a porcupine on the pre-printed postage. Captioned in Korean and the scientific name. Grade: 1

Code: 20312201
Price: $4.00
Cygnus cygnus
Similar to DPRK’s other cards of animals, this unused version has Korean and “scientific” captions, and the pre-printed stamp is of an owl. Grade: 1

Code: 20312202
Price: $4.00
Vanda hybrida
No captions at all on this unused 2011 card. We take our clue from the pre-printed postage, whose orchid seems to be about the same as the one on the front; and the scientific name Vanda hybrida appears in that postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20312204
Price: $4.00
Cactus (선인장)
Unused 2011 card, Korean and English captions, and pre-printed large postage of cactus, a cactus flower, and a butterfly. Grade: 1

Code: 20312205
Price: $5.00
2018 World Cup
Someone was thinking well ahead in 2011 when they issued this card for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It’s unused, has only a Korean caption (2018 로씨야 세계축구선수권대회 기념, which means “Russia World Championship Commemorative”), and expensive 200W pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20312206
Price: $12.00
Dinosaurs (공룡)
Unused 2011 card, pre-printed Megalosaurus bucklandi postage, and short Korean and English caption. Grade: 1

Code: 20312207
Price: $6.00
Fire Engines (소방차)
From 2011, unused card with short English and Korean caption (소방차, Fire Engines), and pre-printed 70W postage very much like the card. Grade: 1

Code: 20312208
Price: $9.00
HFeO2.nH2O
Wow. When we put the formula shown here into Google, the results come back all mixed up. The official agent (and the card itself, but only in Korean) calls this Limonite (갈철광), which either does or does not have a different chemical formula. Are you a geologist? The pre-printed stamp is large and very similar to the front. Possibly not a lot of postcards in the world are quite like this one. Grade: 1

Code: 20312209
Price: $6.00
New Year 2012 (set of 5)
Unused New Year set of five cards for 2012, all with pre-printed 10W postage for domestic use. Grade: 1

Code: 20312210
Price: $19.00
Butterfly (나비)
Unused card with Korean (나비) and English caption. Pre-printed postage of a different butterfly. Grade: 1

Code: 20312211
Price: $4.00
Architectural Buildings (건축물)
Verging on the surreal, an unused card from 2012 with really large pre-printed postage showing more conventional structures. Yes, it’s true, we also think of most buildings as architectural in one way or another. Grade: 1

Code: 20312212
Price: $8.00
Rabbits – Frimung
It will be hard to read, so we’ll type the legend at the bottom front: “FRIMUNG 2012 & HUDDEX 2012”, Huddinge, Sweden, March 3-4. Google, surprisingly, was not much help here so we just present the unused card to you, with bilingual caption and more rabbits on the pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20312213
Price: $5.00
Floriade 2012 World Horticultural Expo
There is a three-character Korean caption on the back that we couldn’t make out, plus what’s written on the front. The flower on the front seems not to be identified but it looks a lot like the hollyhocks we knew when we were young. The pre-printed postage is easier: those are tulips. Grade: 1

Code: 20312214
Price: $4.00
Rose (장미)
Unused card from 2012, whose pre-printed postage is round. Short captions in Korean (장미) and English. Grade: 1

Code: 20312215
Price: $4.00

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