From Perth to Pyongyang: my life as an Aussie student at Kim Il Sung University

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Alek Sigley January 9, 2019

From Perth to Pyongyang: my life as an Aussie student at Kim Il Sung University

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Greetings NK News readers!

My name is Alek. I’m an Australian postgraduate student at Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s top university.

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Alek Sigley

Alek Sigley is a PhD student at Stanford University's Modern Thought and Literature program, where he is writing a dissertation on North Korea. From 2018-2019 he studied for a master's degree in contemporary North Korean fiction at Kim Il Sung University's College of Literature. He speaks Mandarin, Korean and Japanese. Follow him on Twitter @AlekSigley.

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