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Fyodor Tertitskiy

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.

Analysis

Kim Jong Un’s public appearances in December: a renewed focus on ideological matters

The final month of 2017 saw the leader challenge some established political norms

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 9, 2018
Analysis

Inter-Korean meeting agreed for January 9: what to expect?

With talks planned for next Tuesday, numerous stumbling blocks remain in place

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 5, 2018
Analysis

Analysis: What to make of Kim Jong Un’s new year speech

Speech offered fig-leaf to South Korea, but warning to U.S., analysis shows

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 1, 2018
Analysis

WPK Cells’ Chairmen Conference: what we learned and why it’s important

North Korea's leadership is seriously alarmed by foreign influence and uncharacteristically open about addressing the problem

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 29, 2017
Analysis

How to interpret Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s address

History shows North Korea's supreme leader uses speech to signal a direction for the country

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 28, 2017
Analysis

Why foreign NGOs and tourists can’t visit North Korea’s Jagang Province

Research suggests large-scale munitions industry presence could be a contributing factor

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 25, 2017
Evergreen

Dreams of unification: why Pyongyang can’t conquer the peninsula

There are simply too many obstacles to a North Korean take over of the South

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 22, 2017
Analysis

Trump, missile tests, and an assassination: N. Korea’s year in review

In 2017, Kim Jong Un continued along the same path he's followed since rising to power six years ago

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 17, 2017
Analysis

Maritime interdictions and North Korea: three potential scenarios

Options range from non-military to those which would reserve force to oblige compliance

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 15, 2017
Evergreen

Cooking up a storm: Moscow’s North Korean restaurants

How one DPRK-run establishment became the center of a media controversy in Russia

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 7, 2017
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