There was a small production of the North Korean Sungri Paektusan.

Sungri Paektusan, in the movie Uli yeopjib munjie, registration ‘ㄹ-2-1280.’

Four different license plates, at least three different colors, cars with left rear-view mirrors in black, or in silver (chrome), or without, cars with black steering wheels and cars with white, cars with hubcaps or cars without….
More and more proof that that we can talk of a small series of the Paektusan, the proof is piling up.

It all started in 2018 when IMCDb.org came up with a 1980 North Korean movie named Yollebontchae kyoul (Yeolnebeonjjae gyeoul, depending on the converting system) , showing an unknown dark blue sedan. I paid some attention.

Movie 열네번째 겨울, dark blue car, black mirrors, black steering wheel.

Six months later a second movie surfaced, named Uliga saneun geoli (Uriga sanun kori, 1982). Better pictures, the name of the car was now clear (Paektusan), I showed the pictures too.

Sungri Paektusan in the movie Uliga saneun geoli, a (strange) registration ‘ㅁ-2-3706’.

Sungri Paektusan in the movie Uliga saneun geoli (1982).

Next (August 2021) was the discovery of the car in the magazine Korea Pictorial (in Japanese) of March 1978. Now the factory was known: the Sungri Truck Factory in Tokchon.

Paektusan (1978) made by Sungri in Tokchon.

And next the light blue car at the 1978 Industrial & Agricultural Exhibition in Pyongyang.

Sungri Paektusan 1978 at the Pyongyang Industrial &Agricultural Exhibition.

And today two ‘new’ movies, thanks to Ash.
The ‘uli yeopjib munje’ (Uri yopchimmunje), from 1979, a black and white movie, shows two (!) different Paektusan.

Sungri Paektusan in the movie Uli yeopjib munjie, registration ‘ㄹ-2-3725’.

The second car (ㄹ-2-3725) has no mirror, windscreen wipers, hubcaps.

The second black and white movie is named ‘Uli alayib munjie’ and is produced in 1980.

Sungri Paektusan in the movie Uli alayib munjie, registration ‘ㄹ-2-3709’.

And now something about the rear lights. We know trolleybuses with fake rear lights. What about these? Note the differences between the vehicles.

Rear lights, Sungri Paektusan ‘ㄹ-2-1280’. Are they real? (Uli yeopjib munjie).

Rear lights, Sungri Paektusan ‘ㄹ-2-3709’. ( Uli alayib munjie).

Rear lights, Sungri Paektusan ‘ㅁ-2-3706’. Drawing made by Jörg-Peter Rabe.

In the movies we can see some details, they can give clues on which car the Paektusan is based. Especially to find out if this was a Volga M21 or Volga M24.

Here you can see the drum brakes:

Sungri Paektusan ‘ㄹ-2-1280’, drum brakes. Five nuts. (Uli yeopjib munjie).

And here the steering wheel with part of the dashboard, the steering wheel resembles the Volga M21 steering wheel (and is different from the M24).

Steering wheel, Sungri Paektusan ‘ㄹ-2-1280’. (Uli yeopjib munjie).

The registration numbers are strange. The same kind of symbols (ㄹ and ㅁ) are also here on a Sungri 58 truck: ‘ㄹ-3-1949’. Probably they are only used in movies? They are not on wiki or elsewhere. And not here.