About the Author

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.
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Evergreen North Korea and the USSR: How similar are they?The Soviet Union seems a bastion of liberalism compared to life in the DPRK ![]() This is the first part of a two-part series examining the similarities - and differences - between North Korea and the superpower which created it. One of the most common stereotypes about North Korea is that the country is essentially a small copy of the Soviet Union. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |