Pyongyang Chronicles: ‘Why doesn’t Australia develop nuclear weapons?’

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Pyongyang Chronicles: ‘Why doesn’t Australia develop nuclear weapons?’

A visit to a North Korean restaurant facilitated frank discussion about racism, the Korean War and the merits of Juche

Alek Sigley February 6, 2023

Pyongyang Chronicles: ‘Why doesn’t Australia develop nuclear weapons?’

Red skies over Sydney in 2013 | Image: Rodney Campbell / Flickr

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

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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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