This photo, taken from the website of North Korea’s State Stamp Bureau on April 1, 2022, shows a stamp that features North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s meeting with then U.S. President Donald Trump at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in June 2019, as part of stamps issued to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his ascension to the leader of the party and the country. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Friday released a new collection of commemorative stamps for the 10th anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s rise to power with photos of his meetings with world leaders.
The 49 sets of stamps, published by the North’s Korea Stamp Corp., include those featuring Kim’s Singapore summit in 2018 with then U.S. President Donald Trump and another meeting at the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom the following year, as well his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But no stamps on Kim’s summit talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in or a trilateral gathering with Trump at Panmunjom were featured in the collection.
This photo, taken from the website of North Korea’s State Stamp Bureau on April 1, 2022, shows stamps that feature North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile under the guidance of the North’s leader Kim Jong-un in 2017, as part of stamps issued to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his ascension to the leader of the party and the country. (Yonhap)
The North introduced the test-firing of its missiles in the stamp collection, including the Hwasong-14 and Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) launched in 2017.
Images of the newest Hwasong-17 ICBM the North claims to have launched last week were not included in the collection.
Inter-Korean relations have chilled and the Korea peace process has stalled since the no-deal end of the 2019 Hanoi summit between Kim and Trump.
(Yonhap)
