About the Author
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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Evergreen How an obscure Red Army unit became the cradle of the North Korean eliteFormer members of the 88 brigade came to form much of the DPRK's top brass One of the oldest theoretical concepts about the earlier history of North Korea is the division of its politicians into four factions. The Soviet faction was composed of Koreans who lived in the USSR, so the theory goes, the Yan’an faction of those from China, the internal faction of Communists of colonial Korea, and the partisan one: members of Kim Il Sung’s unit. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |