Ask a North Korean: Do North Koreans like to go camping?

Ask A North Korean

Ask a North Korean: Do North Koreans like to go camping?

Travel restrictions mostly rule out leisure camping, but there are other ways people spend time in the great outdoors

Alek Sigley December 30, 2021

Ask a North Korean: Do North Koreans like to go camping?

Eric Lafforgue (Sept. 10, 2012) | Members of the Young Pioneers, North Korea's counterpart to Boy and Girl Scouts, hold their flag at Songdowon International Children's Camp in Wonsan

“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.

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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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