5 Won World Championship of Football

North Korea issued a substantial run of foreign-currency collector coins throughout the 1990s and 2000s, almost entirely for export sale rather than domestic circulation — hard currency the regime needed badly under sustained sanctions. This football piece almost certainly commemorates no specific World Cup victory by North Korea; the country's sole notable tournament appearance was 1966, when they reached the quarterfinals. The vague "World Championship" framing sidesteps that inconvenient gap.