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More articles by 'Fyodor Tertitskiy'
Daily duty: Inside North Korea’s regular police force
Though secret police get most intl' attention, its the regular force doing the bulk of the work
Propaganda starts early: North Korea’s cruel and crude cartoons
While Kim family is absent in N.Korean cartoons, propaganda can still be found aplenty
The flaws and biases in North Korean studies
Regional overrepresentation, the language barrier and ignorance of sources holds back field
Where some of the worst rumors on North Korea come from
Why would someone tell nonsense to the media again and again? More important, why would we let him?
The good things in North Korea
Taking a moment to recognize good art, good scholarship and good people
Little to be hopeful of after N.Korea’s Seventh Congress
Kim Jong Un doubles down, offers little sign his country will be more welcoming for investors
What happens at a North Korean Party Conference or Congress
What, based on history, are the chances of reform being announced at the Seventh Congress?
Chinese money talks in North Korea
There is a huge amount of yuan in the North, which Beijing may use this to its advantage one day
Contradictions in North Korean ideology
Have North Koreans stopped to think about the holes in the official message?
Is North Korea a racist state?
How well does the average N.Korean retain ultra-nationalist, occasionally race-tinged propaganda?
