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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

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

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyAugust 10, 2016
Analysis

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

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJuly 25, 2016
Analysis

The flaws and biases in North Korean studies

Regional overrepresentation, the language barrier and ignorance of sources holds back field

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJuly 8, 2016
Analysis

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?

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJune 16, 2016
Analysis

The good things in North Korea

Taking a moment to recognize good art, good scholarship and good people

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJune 5, 2016
Analysis

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

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyMay 18, 2016
Evergreen

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?

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyMay 2, 2016
Analysis

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

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyApril 25, 2016
Analysis

Contradictions in North Korean ideology

Have North Koreans stopped to think about the holes in the official message?

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyMarch 25, 2016
Analysis

Is North Korea a racist state?

How well does the average N.Korean retain ultra-nationalist, occasionally race-tinged propaganda?

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyMarch 14, 2016