“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 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 the route that Kim Il Sung