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More articles by 'Fyodor Tertitskiy'
Hero? Traitor? Vicious missionary? N.Korea’s many social labels
Reference book contains stunning new details about regime's classification system
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
The image of Stalin in North Korea
The last ‘Stalinist’ system has little regard for the Soviet leader himself
Kim’s North Korea – not the Soviets’
The North's founder gained independence from Moscow through guile, determination and good luck
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
Coming of age in North Korea
Second in a two-part series on the life cycle of a North Korean, from school to sepulcher
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
Lee Ul Sol: Last of N. Korea’s original partisans
94-year-old's career, medal count shows how Pyongyang values absolute, obsequious loyalty
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
The many ways of dying in North Korea
Executions have long been a fact of life in the North, only their targets have changed
