`You think Trump will save you?`: my nine days detained by North Korea`s secret police
(The Guardian North Korea)

Alek Sigley was studying in Pyongyang when he was blindfolded and taken to an interrogation facility where his handlers demanded he confess to his `crimes´`Do you know what day it is?` asked the man as we sat in the black Mercedes-Benz that had whisked me from the foreign student dormitory at Kim Il-sung university, where I had been living in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. I knew full well, but he answered his own question: `It´s the day the US imperialists invaded and started the war.`It was Tuesday 25 June, and the start of my nine long days of interrogation at the hands of the North Korean ministry of state security - or at least that´s who I believed it was, as they never revealed who they actually were. Continue reading...