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.
Why would someone tell nonsense to the media again and again? More important, why would we let him?
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Have North Koreans stopped to think about the holes in the official message?
How well does the average N.Korean retain ultra-nationalist, occasionally race-tinged propaganda?
Reference book contains stunning new details about regime's classification system
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