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.
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.
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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