page_title: Transport in North Korea
section_title: Vehicle markings
hierarchical_section_title: Transport in North Korea / Vehicle markings
caption_attribution_description: A trolleybus full of commuters in downtown Pyongyang.
context_page_description: Transport in North Korea is constrained by economic problems and government restrictions. Public transport predominates, and most of it is electrified.
context_section_description: Road vehicles in North Korea bear distance stars.  These are paint markings which display how far the particular vehicle has traveled without incident. Each star represents 50,000 kilometres (31,000 mi) travelled without an accident. The bus in this example has three stars, indicating that it has traveled over 150,000 kilometres (93,000 mi) without a crash.
  The DPRK licence plate background color denotes the vehicle type;
  Blue - State vehicle
  Black - Military vehicle
  Yellow - Private vehicle - permitted persons who have contributed greatly to DPRK
  Green - Foreign Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)
  Red - Diplomatic
caption: A trolleybus in Pyongyang with three distance stars, indicating it has gone over at least 150,000 kilometres (93,000 mi) safely.
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