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.
“North Korea was founded on September 9, 1948." We hear this phrase again and again, and often say it ourselves. But rarely do we ask the question – what happened on that day?
If a country has a holiday commemorating its foundation day, it's usually easy to name the historic event it is intended to commemorate.