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

from ben_a

Short, compelling read on the North Korean propaganda state. Notable claims include: 1. That the core propaganda tropes of the DPRK derive from racist nationalism made popular during Japan's dominance of the peninsula prior to WWII -- and thus state ideology should be seen more as a belligerent r...

from xuebi

The Cleanest Race is a new and much-needed assessment of North Korea and its domestic propaganda. The domestic propaganda, which focuses on race-based nationalism - namely that the Korean people are the purest and cleanest race, but their naïveté and child-like innocence requires a parental figur...

from TheAmpersand

I purchased "The Cleanest Race" after it was recommended by Christopher Hitchens, my favorite belligerent, hard-drinking, bitterly confrontational former Marxist. In it, B.R. Myers offers a consistent, and at times convincing, argument that North Korea's current dictatorship has more in common wi...

from nmele

Anyone who has any interest in or responsibility for Korean affairs should read this succinct, very insightful book.

from nmele

Anyone who has any interest in or responsibility for Korean affairs should read this succinct, very insightful book.