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The African Student Protest for Clean Water in North Korea, 1984

"The whole street was full of African students walking and shouting"

Artwork by NK NEWS illustrator Cammy Smithwick

In the final part of our special three-part series featuring Aliou Niane, a Guinean who studied at Wonsan agricultural college in North Korea from 1982-1987, Aliou remembers his role in a march to Pyongyang to protest a lack of clean drinking water.

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