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The cleanest race : how North Koreans see themselves--and why it matters / B.R. Myers.

by Myers, B. R., 1963-

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Melville House Pub., 2011.

951.93043 M996c

Propaganda, North Korean -- Social aspects.

Nationalism -- Korea (North)

National characteristics, Korean.

Ethnicity -- Korea (North)

Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

9781935554349 (pbk.)

1935554344 (pbk.)

217 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"Now revised and expanded with new details about the mysterious future leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.

"B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. In a lavishly illustrated work that draws on extensive research into the regime’s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country’s official myths in turn - from the notion of Koreans' unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of "the Iron General." And in a groundbreaking historical section, Myers also traces the origins of this official culture back to the Japanese fascist thought in which North Korea's first ideologues were schooled."--Provided by publisher.

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