The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
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Understanding North Korea through its propaganda

What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?

Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regimeâ€™s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the countryâ€™s official myths in turnâ€”from the notion of Koreansâ€™ unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of â€œthe Iron General.â€ In a concise but groundbreaking historical section, Myers also traces the origins of this official culture back to the Japanese fascist thought in which North Koreaâ€™s first ideologues were schooled.

What emerges is a regime completely unlike the Westâ€™s perception of it. This is neither a bastion of Stalinism nor a Confucian patriarchy, but a paranoid nationalist, â€œmilitary-firstâ€ state on the far right of the ideological spectrum.

Since popular support for the North Korean regime now derives almost exclusively from pride in North Korean military might, Pyongyang can neither be cajoled nor bullied into giving up its nuclear program. The implications for US foreign policyâ€”which has hitherto treated North Korea as the last outpost of the Cold Warâ€”are as obvious as they are troubling. With North Korea now calling for a â€œblood reckoningâ€ with the â€œYankee jackals,â€ Myersâ€™s unprecedented analysis could not be more timely.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-01-26
EANs 9781933633916

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2010-01-26
EANs	9781933633916

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters

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