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10 Won International Sport and Culture Festival
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Korean (Hangul) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Pyongyang in 1989, and North Korea minted heavily around that event. This 1995 issue likely commemorates ongoing state-promoted athletic and cultural programming rather than a specific international competition — by the mid-1990s, North Korea had become largely isolated from genuine international sporting circuits, and these commemorative issues served a domestic propaganda function as much as anything numismatic.
KM#134.1 implies a variant exists; the .2 strikes are believed to differ in edge treatment.