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1 Won Workers' Party of Korea
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국 중앙은행 The 55th Anniversary of Foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea 10th. 10. Juche 89(2000) (Translation: Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) |
| Reverse description | Vignette at left shows male and female soldiers in uniform; at right, a scene from the revolutionary opera Sea of Blood attributed to Yang Helyong. A blue overprint stamp bearing the numeral denomination appears on the note. |
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North Korea issued a parallel set of "won" notes in 2000 specifically for domestic use by citizens — a separate series from the foreign exchange certificates that had long been used to segregate hard currency access. This note belongs to that citizen-series, introduced as the country was still recovering from the famine years of the mid-to-late 1990s, during which the state distribution system had largely collapsed and the central bank's authority over everyday transactions had weakened considerably.
The Workers' Party series was partly a reassertion of institutional control as much as a practical reissue.