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 Line of duty: life as a senior police officer in North KoreaA former major talks crimes, corruption, and how those with good songbun avoid punishment Few people know North Korea as well as its police. The job links them to both the country’s elite, the criminal lower class of society, and everyone in between. They have access to secret documents, often have to cooperate with the secret police and know the system of state control, prisons and other normally restricted parts of the DPRK from the inside. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |