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More articles by 'Fyodor Tertitskiy'
Ice Age: Drugs in North Korea
The narcotics trade spreads, with consequences for the North and for China
Songbun and the five castes of North Korea
Source indicates that social classification system has more classes – and criteria – than previously thought
Color brings Kim Il Sung-era pictures to life
Looking only at black-and-white photos can leave viewers with stale impression of history
Why Kim doesn’t love Hitler, and why this matters
Crude rumors to demonize Pyongyang will backfire, and will ultimately strengthen the regime
The hollow, vacant nature of Juche
What does the philosophy attributed to Kim Il Sung teach? Who actually wrote it?
The ill-fated Sinuiju special region
Proposed special autonomous region would have brought a little bit of Macau onto North Korean soil
Leader, Sun, Mentor, Guide: How North Korean leaders choose their titles
Great care is taken to give North Korea’s supreme leadership a sufficiently exalted set of monikers
North Korea’s passports, and how they use them
Yes, the North has passports, and has them for more than one type of visit abroad
The boundaries of identity on the NK-China border
Those benefitting most now would be most disenfranchised in the event of unification
The diminishing role of Soviet help in Pyongyang propaganda
North Korea once celebrated help in establishing its independence; now it barely acknowledges it
