Chollima Statue, Mansu Hill, Pyongyang (photographed 2014)
A large bronze figure of a rider on a winged horse, one arm raised holding a paper, is mounted on a tall tapering stone pedestal on a hillside in Pyongyang, with trees and visitors in the foreground. The Chollima is a winged horse of Korean legend said to cover a thousand ri in a day, and gave its name to the production-speed campaign of the late 1950s. The tell: glittering generalities, a legend of speed and national greatness stands in for any production target or measurable claim.
- Date
- June 23, 2014
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- DPRK state (Chollima Statue, Mansu Hill)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Kim Il Sung
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, Economy and finance
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Leader
- Kim Jong Un
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 2.0 (photographer Clay Gilliland via Flickr; Commons file page states licence)
Clay Gilliland (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
No printed or legible text visible on the statue or its pedestal in this photograph.
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