Image: 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]nknews.org and including their first name and city of residence.
Today’s question is from NK News Managing Editor Arius Derr in Seoul, who asks whether North Koreans like to go camping.
Hyun-seung Lee — who comes from an elite North Korean family and defected in 2014 — spoke with NK News about camping in the army, hiking along
“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.
