Andrei Lankov, at North Korea Zone writes about Terenti Shtykov, the first Soviet ambassador of North Korea:
Terenti Shtykov… Few people in the Korea of the late 1940s would not recognize his name. For all practical purposes he was the supreme ruler of the North in everything but name. It was under his tutelage that Kim Il-sung’s system was born.
Terenti Shtykov was an archetypical “Stalin’s man”: a ruthless, cautious, and hard-working autodidact who combined the vestiges of revolutionary idealism with cunning, shrewdness, and efficiency.
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