The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters
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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters
Book Details
- Author
- B. R. Myers
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Social Psychology & Interactions
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781935554349
- ISBN-10
- 1935554344
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ISBN: 1935554344
Author: B. R. Myers
Condition: New
Understanding North Korea through its propagandaA newly revised and updated edition that includes a consideration of Kim Jung Il's successor, Kim Jong-On 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 regimes domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the countrys official myths in turnfrom the notion of Koreans unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of ";the Iron General."; 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 Koreas first ideologues were
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