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November 22, 2024
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Pyongyang Chronicles: The North Korean roommates who spied on foreign students

It was an open secret that local students wrote reports on us, but some took their mission more seriously than others

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


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