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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

With military makeover, Kim Jong Un asserts his own power in face of troubles

North Korean leader donning white military garb is gesture that seeks to diminish symbolic standing of his predecessors

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyAugust 15, 2022
Analysis

Will the real Kim Il Sung please stand up?

Almost three decades after his death, stories claiming the North Korean founder was an imposter live on

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJuly 18, 2022
Analysis

The Soviet officer who saved countless lives in the early days of North Korea

In the chaos after World War II, Georgiy Fyodorov took decisive action to stop mistreatment of Japanese and Koreans

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 27, 2022
Analysis

How history can help predict the next 10 years of Kim Jong Un’s rule

Predecessors Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il’s first decades in power suggest surprises in the years to come

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 21, 2021
Analysis

Kim Yong Ju, younger brother of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, dies at 101

Once the presumed successor to his brother, Kim Yong Ju played a key role in DPRK history but later fell out of favor

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 15, 2021
Analysis

The overlooked spelling error that underscores North Korea’s culture of fear

The country’s highest honor misspelled the DPRK’s name for years, as correcting the party was all but inconceivable

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 7, 2021
Analysis

With ideology of ‘Kimjongunism,’ North Korea’s leader seeks to be his own man

Report of DPRK’s new doctrine suggests Kim Jong Un wants to surpass his predecessors by copying their self-idolization

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyNovember 1, 2021
Analysis

When a Czechoslovak diplomat bemoaned the Prague Spring from Pyongyang

Czechoslovakia played a unique role on the Korean Peninsula during the Cold War, rubbing some the wrong way

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiySeptember 23, 2021
Analysis

The man that might have saved North Korea and Afghanistan

Aleksandr Puzanov was Moscow’s diplomat in Pyongyang and Kabul as both countries tipped over the precipice

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyAugust 17, 2021
Columns

Kim Jong Un’s grave-robbing promotion is his biggest mistake yet

The North Korean leader is committing ideological heresy by taking Kim Jong Il’s general secretary position

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 12, 2021
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