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.
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.