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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.
On November 30, 1991, a massive explosion occurred in the North Korean city of Kanggye – likely killing as many as a thousand people.
Despite taking more lives than the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the catastrophe remains largely unknown internationally.
In this piece, I intend to shed some light on this tragic event, drawing primarily on the memoirs of Ko Chong Song, an official who worked in Kanggye as a food supply instructor at the time of the accident.
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On November 30, 1991, a massive explosion occurred in the North Korean city of Kanggye - likely killing as many as a thousand people.
Despite taking more lives than the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the catastrophe remains largely unknown internationally.
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.
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