May 12, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fyodor Tertitskiy

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 the author of several books on North Korean history and military in English and Korean.

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
Evergreen

Words, words: North and South Korea’s differing romanization

From diacritics to dodgy vowels, it's best for scholars to simply learn the alphabet

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyNovember 21, 2017
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