Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 2 · Minute
North Korea's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 33.3% |
| Without them | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 50% |
| Chi Woo Kim | South Korea | 2 |
| Do-Heon Kim | South Korea | 2 |
| Hyo-Jin Choi | South Korea | 2 |
| Jung Sung-Ryong | South Korea | 2 |
| Kang Min-Soo | South Korea | 2 |
| Kim Nam-Il | South Korea | 2 |
| Lee Jung-Soo | South Korea | 2 |
| Abdulaziz Hatem | Qatar | 1 |
| Abdulla Mostafa | Qatar | 1 |
| Abdulla Saad | Qatar | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 17 Mar 2010 | v Mexico | 1–2 | 56′ | — | Equaliser | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 30 Dec 2009 | v Qatar | 1–0 | 59′ | — | Winning goal | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 17 Aug 2005 | v Bahrain | 3–2 | 28′ | — | Opening goal | 1–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2005 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 22 Apr 2010 | v South Africa | 0–0 | started, off 51′ | 51 | — | — | Friendly |
| 17 Mar 2010 | v Mexico | 1–2 | started | 90 | 1 | — | Friendly |
| 6 Mar 2010 | v Venezuela | 1–2 | started | 90 | — | — | Friendly |
| 30 Dec 2009 | v Qatar | 1–0 | started | 90 | 1 | Yellow | Friendly |
| 15 Oct 2008 | v Iran | 1–2 | came on 46′ | 44 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2008 |
| 10 Sep 2008 | v South Korea | 1–1 | came on 71′ | 19 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2008 |
| 6 Sep 2008 | v United Arab Emirates | 2–1 | started | 90 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2008 |
| 22 Jun 2008 | v South Korea | 0–0 | came on 86′ | 4 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2008 |
| 7 Jun 2008 | v Turkmenistan | 1–0 | started | 90 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2008 |
| 17 Aug 2005 | v Bahrain | 3–2 | — | — | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2005 |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.