International Affairs

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

B.R. Myers

About the Program

B.R. Myers takes an in-depth look at North Korean society and the domestic propaganda to which its citizens are exposed.  Myers argues that North Korea is a paranoid, military-dominated nationalist state with a government that is influenced heavily by Japanese fascism.  He spoke at  the World Affairs Council of Northern California.      

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B.R. Myers

B.R. Myers, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, currently teaches North Korean literature in South Korea.  He is the author of A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose.


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