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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

Hero? Traitor? Vicious missionary? N.Korea’s many social labels

Reference book contains stunning new details about regime's classification system

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyFebruary 24, 2016
Analysis

How the market system works in N.Korea and is sustainable

There’s plenty of motive for profit to go around – and little to buck the trend

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 31, 2016
Analysis

The image of Stalin in North Korea

The last ‘Stalinist’ system has little regard for the Soviet leader himself

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 18, 2016
Evergreen

Kim’s North Korea – not the Soviets’

The North's founder gained independence from Moscow through guile, determination and good luck

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 31, 2015
Evergreen

How North Korea became Kim Il Sung’s Korea

A Soviet officer had much to do with the critical early decisions in the nation's history

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 28, 2015
Analysis

Coming of age in North Korea

Second in a two-part series on the life cycle of a North Korean, from school to sepulcher

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyNovember 29, 2015
Analysis

Life of a North Korean: From birth to a mountain grave

Part 1 in our guide to growing up, memberships, and an 'education' in the leaders' great feats

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyNovember 27, 2015
Analysis

Lee Ul Sol: Last of N. Korea’s original partisans

94-year-old's career, medal count shows how Pyongyang values absolute, obsequious loyalty

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyNovember 9, 2015
Analysis

Let them eat rice: North Korea’s public distribution system

‘90s-era collapse of the Communist Bloc left a void, filled by markets and PDS nostalgia

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyOctober 29, 2015
Analysis

The many ways of dying in North Korea

Executions have long been a fact of life in the North, only their targets have changed

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiySeptember 30, 2015