Orders, Decorations and Medals of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Links and Other References

Acknowledgements

Bjoern Adam and Ed Haynes, who have both sent a whole load of North Korean pictures.

Grateful thanks to Morton & Eden and Spinks, who permit the use of images from their catalogues.

Links

Antonio Prieto Barrio - Ribbons of North Korea - Page 1 - Page 2

David Devine - Rusty Knight's Place: North Korean Medals

Lukasz Gaszewski - Orders and Medals of the Korean Democratic People's Republic

Jean-Paul LeBlanc - Medals of North Korea (Archived July 2014)

Ilja Repetski - World Awards: Korean Democratic People's Republic

Eric Semon - Décorations de la Corée du Nord

Mario Volpe - Tavole ordini COREA (Nord, Sud e Impero)

Yuri Yashnev - For Merit: North Korea (Archived November 2007).

Wikipedia - Orders and Medals of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

MedalBook - North Korea

Text References

Деднев, А.В. (2014) Награды Кореи: иллюстрированный справочник [Dednev, A.V. (2014) Korea Awards: illustrated directory]

Ingram, K.R. (1993) Honors, Medals and Awards of the Korean War 1950-1953 Prospect Press, New York

Riley, M.B. (2025) Order of the National Flag: People's Democratic Republic of Korea. The Phalerist: Journal of the International Phaleristic Association 3(4): 10-17.

Riley, M.B. (2026) Order of Soldier's Honour. The Phalerist: Journal of the International Phaleristic Association 4(1): 2-4.

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