North Korean recipients •
Kim Il Sung (6 February 1951, first class;) •
Han Sorya (26 April 1951, second class) • Im Hwa (26 April 1951, second class) •
Thae Byong-ryol • Jang Chol (August 1961, first class) • Ri Tu-il (June 1968, first class) • Kim Ryong-yong (January 1976, first class) • Choe Sam-suk (1982, first class) •
Kim Jong Il (1982, first class) • Jong Chang-ryol (June 1986, first class) • Kim Su-jo (October 1989, first class) •
Paek Hak-rim (April 1997, first class) •
Ri Ul-sol (April 1997, first class) • O Ik-je (September 1997, first class) •
Jon Pyong-ho (February 1998, first class) •
Ryu Mi-yong (January 1991, first class) •
Han Duk-su (first class ten times) •
Hyon Yong-chol (eight times first class, five times second class, and twice third class) • Kim Ryong Rin (nine times first class) •
Jo Myong-rok (first class) • Kim Jung-rin (first class) •
Kim Rak-hui (first class) •
Lee Kwon-mu (first class) •
Ri Jong-ok (first class) •
Kang Ki-sop (two times first class, three times second class, and three times third class) • At the beginning of 2010, North Korean media announced that the Order of the National Flag, first class, was posthumously awarded to the captain and first mechanics of the freighter that sunk in November 2009 by the Chinese city of
Dalian. The crew attempted to salvage the ship's portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. •
Pyongyang University of Music and Dance (first class) •
Kigwancha Sports Club (first class) •
Chongnyon Jonwi (first class) • 5th generator turbine of
Sup'ung Dam (first class) •
Hwasong-17's
transporter erector launcher number 321 (first class, awarded in November 2022)
Foreign recipients •
Peng Dehuai (China, 1951 and 1953, first class) •
Antonín Zápotocký (
Czechoslovakia, 1955, first class) •
Alois Barvínek (
Czechoslovakia, 1955, third class), Czechoslovak composer •
Nureddin al-Atassi (
Syria, September 1969, first class) •
Siad Barre (
Democratic Republic of Somalia, 1972, first class) •
Gustáv Husák (
Czechoslovakia, first class, awarded twice 1973 and 1988) •
Didier Ratsiraka (
Madagascar, 1978, first class) •
Samora Machel (
Mozambique, March 1975, first class) •
Ferdinand Kozovski (Bulgarian
Lieutenant general of
Bulgarian army, deputy komander of Bulgarian army 1944-1945 in
Second World War, Chairman of National assembly of Bulgaria 1958-1965) •
Leonid Brezhnev (
Soviet Union, 18 December 1976, first class) •
Juvénal Habyarimana (
Rwanda, 1978, first class) •
Jean-Bédel Bokassa (
Central African Empire, 1978, first class) •
Choi Eun-hee (
South Korea, 1983, first class) •
Hosni Mubarak (
Egypt, 1983, first class) •
Agatha Barbara (
Malta, August 1985, first class) •
Sam Nujoma (
Namibia, 1992) •
Norodom Sihanouk (
Cambodia, 1965, first class) •
Fidel Castro (
Cuba, 2006, first class) • Józef Borowiec, former director of the
National Center of Education in ,
Poland •
Yakov Novichenko (
Soviet Union) •
Alejandro Cao de Benós (
Spain) • Ra Hun, Korean minority activist in
Japan (first class, second class, and twice third class) •
Megawati Sukarnoputri (
Indonesia, 2002, first class) •
Wojciech Jaruzelski (
Poland, 1977, first class) •
Heinz Kessler (
East Germany, July 1988, first class) •
Josip Broz Tito (
Yugoslavia, 25 August 1977, first class) • (
Finland, 1978, second class) • Saleh Harsi Awad Al-Ban (
South Yemen, 1969, third class) •
Forbes Burnham (
Guyana, 1972, first class) •
Vajiralongkorn (
Thailand, 1992, first class) ==See also==