About the Author
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy is a leading researcher at Seoul's Kookmin University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Seoul National University, and is author of "North Korea before Kim Il Sung," which you can buy here.
This is part of NK News' series on the first five years of Kim Jong Un's rule.
It has now been five years since Kim Jong Il died and his son Jong Un inherited the power in North Korea. In this article, I will try to outline some general tendencies of the first five years of Kim Jong Un’s rule over the country.