Chollima Movement

The Chollima Movement (Hangul: 천리마운동, Hanja: 千里馬運動) was a state-sponsored movement in North Korea, analogous to the Chinese Great Leap Forward, intended to promote rapid economic development. It was launched in 1956. North Korea intensified the work-harder campaign by launching the "three-revolution movement" in 1973. As in other countries, the state planning mechanism allowed for the total utilization of resources, hence resulting in rapid industrialization. However, after some time, the movement failed to continue to achieve the same results, because the capacity of the labour supply was fully taken up, whilst technology and technique were still lacking.

See also

• Juche
• Politics of North Korea

External links

• PYONGYANG WATCH: All the winged horses . . .
• New Evidence on North Korea's Chollima Movement and First Five-Year Plan (1957-1961)
• North Korea: a strange socialist fortress