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Chollima (magazine)

North Korean magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4669541
Source-derived summary

The Chollima (Korean: 천리마; Hancha: 千里馬) is a monthly educational magazine of North Korea. It was first published in January 1959, initially to support the Chollima Movement. The publisher is the Chollima Editing Committee of the Art and Literature Publishing House (문학예술종합출판사). Unlike most other magazines in the country, it is targeted at the general public.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-01. For this dossier, Chollima, magazine and North is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Chollima (magazine)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.