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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves And Why It Matters (2010)

by B.R. Myers(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1933633913 (ISBN13: 9781933633916)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Melville House

review 1: This was an engaging analysis of North Korean Propaganda. I did not entirely agree with his thesis that NK is strictly a race-based fascist state in the Imperial Japanese model. (I'm of the opinion that it is a pure kleptocracy). However, the book did point out the rather large role that race plays in both the interior and foreign politics of NK, and how the ruling elite manipulates Koreans' ideas about race to legitimate their rule. I recommend this one very highly.
review 2: Great book if you want to understand how North Korea is even possible, how it can go on existing and how the people of North Korea can seemingly think the way they do. Not so much information on, for example, daily life and such things, but a detailed account of how the myth of North Kore... morea was created within the country, and how propagande is at use absolutely everywhere in order to maintain it. Very interesting! I had no idea Koreans were so racist for example, and the North Korean self-image is something else... less

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