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20 Won Korean Workers Party
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 20 Won (20 KPW) |
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| Reverse script | Hangul |
| Reverse lettering | 조선로동당창건50돐 20 원 1945-1995 |
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North Korea's commemorative silver program of the 1990s was largely produced for export rather than domestic circulation — hard currency was the goal, not commemoration. These pieces were struck for sale to foreign collectors and dealers, primarily through intermediaries in Austria and China, as Pyongyang had no functioning numismatic distribution network of its own. The Korean Workers' Party issues from this period are tied directly to the Party's 50th anniversary in 1995, the same year Kim Jong-il formally consolidated power following his father's death the previous July.