Pyongyang Chronicles: The North Korea I choose to remember

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Pyongyang Chronicles: The North Korea I choose to remember

While state police cut short my studies, I also experienced unforgettable beauty and kindness during my time in the DPRK

Alek Sigley March 22, 2023

Pyongyang Chronicles: The North Korea I choose to remember

North Korean students in front of the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il statues in Pyongyang in Sept. 24, 2017 | Image: NK News

Editor’s note: The following is the final article 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.

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