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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. |