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

Myers, B. R.

ISBN 10: 1933633913 / ISBN 13: 9781933633916

Published by Melville House Publishing, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Cleanest Race : How North Koreans See ...

Publisher: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Argues that Kim Jong Il guides his regime through a paranoid, race-based nationalism with roots in Japanese fascist thought, in an account originally presented to the U.S. State Department.

About the Author:

B.R. Myers was born in New Jersey and raised in Bermuda, South Africa and Germany. He has a Ph.D. in North Korean Studies from the University of Tübingen in Germany. His books include Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (Cornell East Asia Series, 1994) and A Reader's Manifesto (Melville House, 2002). At present he directs the international studies department at Dongseo University in South Korea. In addition to writing literary criticism for the American magazine The Atlantic, of which he is a contributing editor, Myers regularly contributes articles on North Korea to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and academic publications.