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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Features With the century: the extraordinary life and times of Kim Il SungHow Korea, and the world, changed alongside the life of the infamous dictator
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. Yet on the other side of the planet, in the northern part © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |