Is It Illegal To Buy DPRK Coinage?

I think you're talking about Jim Rogers, pretty sure it's not illegal in SIngapore but its kind of a moral dilemma as you know the profits from the coin sales
will benefit a despotic regime. Same if you go there for a holiday.

Well, of course they do.
So, follow your conscience. Usually the best course, unless it conflicts with current law..

technically they are under sanction so be aware technically only food stuff and some other items are allow. Otherwise know that you bought coins for a regime that has public executions and extreme education camps (slavery) for mining that is probably how they are able to get the gold and silver.

Wow really Jim Rogers did he really buy 1 million in silver bullion from the North Koreans, probably got a great discount tho.

with Paul.

Re Swampberbob's comments

I was stationed not too many years afterwards on an RAF base in the UK that had US made "tinned sunshine" available for worldwide delivery.

I would like to see coin collecting kept separate from any political/moral/religious views or ends. But now I am a cynic/realist ( the two seem to coincide nowadays ) recognising that there are some people out there who will use anything as a tool to further their own ends.

The images and text on many of mycoins are political statements of their time.

Anaximander

These days I far prefer "Canned Sunshine" (orange juice) that comes from Florida.

@Palouche go watch the interview of a person who escaped from North Korea, is it worse than China, or Russia or even the Saudi. I mean are you a person who would buy silver coins from a terrorist group? I would class North Korea as close to the terrorist group, but obviously, I'm not saying you might not want to buy from say a North Korean citizen. I'm just saying if you shouldn't purchase large quality from a regime goon, what do you think they are going to do with your money?

Nothing to do with Politics, don't use a straw man's argument.
First, they are under sanctions (is China under sanctions)
Secondly, they use any! method to get foreign currency have been known includes fake coins and real coins (usually counterfeiting).
To fund their foreign operations.

I mean its a choice up to you want you to want to do with your money.

It's an interesting debate.

I met a guy who takes tours to North Korea, a Kiwi. I said that perhaps we shouldn't even go to North Korea, he was a little drunk and obnoxious at the best of times. He got rather angry saying it helped these poor people earn some money.

From my point of view, yes, the North Korean regime is particularly bad to its own people. However there are various countries out there which engage in very questionable actions, such as the US, does this stop me getting US coins? Not really.

I live in a country where the government is committing genocide against the population (at the very least it's cultural genocide of Tibetans and Uighur Muslims, and even genocide of its own culture, which started in the times of Mao.) I don't stop living here because of that (I might leave at some point because of the pressures they place on foreigners when getting visas and potentially because of this new social points system they will introduce next year).

There are lots of moral points, but then again I'm from a country that has treated people badly, invading countries, keeping down Catholics and the like.

At some point you just get on with your life, my buying North Korean coins is hardly going to be the difference between keeping that state going or not.