How do North Korean awards hit the market?

[CtahhR]

It's all pretty much covered here - http://soviet-awards.com/forum/sovie...-much-pay.html

You have to do some real probing in China and you'll find a seemingly never-ending source.
As you've seen by the ocean of them I have posted (and I have only posted a small percentage of the DPRK items in my collection) they are certainly not as rare as some would have you believe. Most items sell for under $5 and it is pretty mad to pay more than $100 for almost anything. The fact that these items are from an active regime does mean that there is a little cloak and dagger operating when it comes to supply. Believe me there are so many of these stacked up in warehouses in China that you would need shipping containers to ferry them to the western markets. Even with the attempted monopolising of the market, the value of the items is low and falling. Just imagine how little these would cost if the market was transparent.

It got to the point that so many of these were coming in that I didn't even look at the items, just added them to the pile.

Beware of the middlemen and there are also a selection of fakes out there but I've said all of this before.

I do have some more interesting awards from the DPRK I've not yet posted that I'll get round to some time.

Good luck!