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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.
Humans like numbers and often attach symbolic meaning to them. Since we use the decimal system, we often perceive each tenth anniversary as something special.
Today, we’re going to be taking a look at each tenth anniversary of the most important man in North Korean history – Kim Il Sung.
It’s April 15, 1912, and the world is about to learn about a tragedy in the Atlantic Ocean: A British passenger liner called the Titanic has just sunk, and more than a thousand of its passengers have died.
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Humans like numbers and often attach symbolic meaning to them. Since we use the decimal system, we often perceive each tenth anniversary as something special.
Today, we're going to be taking a look at each tenth anniversary of the most important man in North Korean history – Kim Il Sung.
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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