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New Evidence On North Korea's Crrollina Movement and First Five-Year PlanCMHP is pleased to announcE a new publication from the Wilson Center's North Korea Intemational DocumentationPtgea, Nczt Eo.ideacg gry Ngrll Korea's Chollima Monement anil First Fiue-Year Plan (7957-7967I The collection was speciallyprepared for a ioint NKIDP-United States Institute of Peace conference, "'New DPRK RevolutionaryUp5urge'-A Blast from the Past or a New Path?" and contains newly obtained documentarv eviddnce on North Koreanptilitical and economic developments in the late 195G from Polistv (East) Germaru Chinese, 'and Czedr ardrives. The5 documents contained in thd reader shed new liqht on the events surrounding the laundi of the Chollinra movemenLa campaign designed to inq€ase prcduction and t6 subordinate individud thoiehts and actions to the needs of thecollecEve. The Clollima movemeit took its name from a mythical winged horse drat could travel 1,000 li, ol100 km,in one day and- exhorted the North Korca people to work is hard as. tfre legmdary horse. The docummt! place recdntgovernmant efforts to r€vive the Chollima rirov-ement into a broader historiial conlext.Nao Evidence on Nortlr Koraq3 Chollim a Mooemen, is available for download flee of charge at http: / /www.wilsoncenter.org/nkidp.National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Eook No. 272Twenty years ago, the commander of the Soviet Limited Contineent in Afshanistan Boris Grcmov crossed the TermezBridgd dut of Alghanistan, thus marking the end of the Soviet vv-ar whidr lasted almost tm vears and cost tens ofthou-sands of Soiiet and Afghan lives. As a tribute and memorial to the late Russian historiin General AlexanderAntonovidt Lyakhovsky, thi National Security trffhvg has posted on the Web (www.nsarchive.ore) a series of oreviouslvsecrct Soviet documents including Politburo dnd diary nobes published here in Enclish for the first-time. The dci:uments'suggesthat the Soviet decision td withdraw occurred as earli as 1985, but the pndess of implementine that decision wasexcnrciatingly slow in part because the Soviet-backed Afchan rcsime was nevdr able to achieve the neiiessarv domesticsupport anil legitimacy, a key problem even today for the-currenf U.S. and NATGsupported govemment in trGbul.The Soviet documents show that ending the war in Afghanistan, whidr Soviet seneral secretarv Mikhail Gorbachev called"the bleeding wound," was amonq his hiqhest prioritiA from the moment he aisumed power in 1985, a point he madeclear to then:Afghan Comrnunist leader Fabrali Karmal in their first conversation on Mirdr 14 1985. Alrbadv in 1985,according to the-documents, the Soviet Politburo was discussing ways of disengaging from Aflhanistan, ancl actuallyreadred dre decision in principle on October 1Z 1985.For more informatiorL cDntact:National Securiw Archive2m-9iL70Nhttp: / / www.nsardrive.org.3. Announcementg:CFP: "70 Years Laten The Global Impact of the HolocauetoHoly Family Unioersity, Philadelphia, PA, Nwember 7-8,2009At the next annive rsary of Kristallnacftt, the Graduate Proqrams of the Sclool of Arts and Sciences at Holv FamilvUniversity will presenl a tr,voday interdisciplinary confeftnce entitled "70 Years Later: The Global Impa6t of thdHolocaust " to 6e held on Noverirber 74, 2O9. Pairels, prcsentations, and poster sessions will be accefd from alldisciplines.Eadr proposal must include the following information: title of presentation and topic area; name hiehest educationaldegree, e-mail address of person deliveriig presentation (prindpal author); compfete maiiinq addre;s, telephone number,fax number, and institutioh/business inloiriation (departinenL-school,aqency, oi companv)bf principal authou namesof coauthors, their highest educational deqrees, and iheir institution/budiness informitioir preleren& for Dresantationin a poster, panel, or p-aper se6sion; and a 250,300 word abstract of the paper, poster, or pres€iltation topic. Submissiondeadline is April 30, 2009.Please submit abstracts to:Dr. Leanne OwmHolv Familv UniversiW9801 Frankford Avenu6Philadelphia PA 19114Pdsst'o April 2009 Page 45