March 28, 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

Ice Age: Drugs in North Korea

The narcotics trade spreads, with consequences for the North and for China

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyMarch 9, 2015
Analysis

Songbun and the five castes of North Korea

Source indicates that social classification system has more classes – and criteria – than previously thought

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyFebruary 26, 2015
Evergreen

Color brings Kim Il Sung-era pictures to life

Looking only at black-and-white photos can leave viewers with stale impression of history

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyFebruary 20, 2015
Evergreen

Why Kim doesn’t love Hitler, and why this matters

Crude rumors to demonize Pyongyang will backfire, and will ultimately strengthen the regime

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyFebruary 11, 2015
Evergreen

The hollow, vacant nature of Juche

What does the philosophy attributed to Kim Il Sung teach? Who actually wrote it?

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyFebruary 2, 2015
Evergreen

The ill-fated Sinuiju special region

Proposed special autonomous region would have brought a little bit of Macau onto North Korean soil

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 27, 2015
Analysis

Leader, Sun, Mentor, Guide: How North Korean leaders choose their titles

Great care is taken to give North Korea’s supreme leadership a sufficiently exalted set of monikers

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyJanuary 19, 2015
Analysis

North Korea’s passports, and how they use them

Yes, the North has passports, and has them for more than one type of visit abroad

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 29, 2014
Analysis

The boundaries of identity on the NK-China border

Those benefitting most now would be most disenfranchised in the event of unification

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 26, 2014
Analysis

The diminishing role of Soviet help in Pyongyang propaganda

North Korea once celebrated help in establishing its independence; now it barely acknowledges it

Fyodor TertitskiyFyodor TertitskiyDecember 15, 2014