Image: Eric Lafforgue (May 2010) | A painting about space exploration in Samjiyon, Ryanggang Province
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years.
Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence.
Today’s question is from Jimmy, who asks about how North Koreans view UFOs.
Hyun-seung Lee — who comes from an elite North Korean family and defected in 2014 — spoke with NK News about the limited coverage of astronomy in the country’s school curriculum and why most
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years.
Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence.
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.
