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December 05, 2024
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Pyongyang chronicles: Why the DPRK is no fan of ‘The Lord of the Rings’

All education must be revolutionary, and Kim Il Sung University instructors had no time for fantasies of Middle Earth

Editor’s note: The following is the third in a multipart memoir series written by Alek Sigley about his time studying at Kim Il Sung University.


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