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Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy is a lecturer at Seoul’s Korea University. He is the author of "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" and several other books on North Korean history and military.
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Features Why Soviet plans for Austria-style unification in Korea did not become a realityAn official document reveals the division of the peninsula could have been avoided If this author had to pick the most important year in East Asian history, it would probably be 1945 - the year the fall of the Japanese Empire dramatically changed the situation in the entire region. Many different possibilities were considered for Japan’s former possessions, including the colony of Korea. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |