On Kim Yo-jong — B.R. Myers
“The only rule of which everybody in a totalitarian state may be sure,” said Hannah Arendt, “is that the more visible government agencies are,
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Orchestrating a Groundswell — B.R. Myers
Ask Korea watchers why the peninsula’s road to unification has been so much longer than Germany’s, and you’re likely to get the answer: “The
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On an “Association of Korean States” — B.R. Myers
In early 2020 the heroic teamwork of doctors and nurses in Daegu and South Koreans’ collective willingness to take proper precautions induced the
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The Korea Spectacle is the Guardian of Our Korea Sleep — B.R. Myers
“I have been wallowing in the bog of politics for a long time, and I have in fact come to be quite fond of it. In it, corruption cleanses
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North Korea’s Juche Myth: Introduction (2015) — B.R. Myers
[The climate of fear prevailing in Korean Studies in the West, which a few younger scholars have lamented since the Tyranny scandal broke in 2016,
On the Demolition of the North-South Liaison Office — B.R. Myers
One of the many Korean phrases I feel would enrich our language, and which deserve a place in it much more than je ne sais quoi and mi casa es su
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On “Fake News” — B.R. Myers
In North Korea everything revolves around Kim Il Sung’s Juche Thought. The country has “miracle rice” that will protect it from famine. Kim
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On the United Future Party — B.R. Myers
The one resolved only to do what they believed the people would like and approve; and the other that the people should like and approve what they had
On Foreign Coverage of South Korea’s Response to the Coronavirus — B.R. Myers
The twin obsessions of the foreign press corps in Seoul are a) North Korea and b) K-Pop, K-Film, K-Anything-But-Politics. So rare is it for a big
A Note on the “Peace Regime” — B.R. Myers
A former intelligence officer for Czechoslovakia, discussing the East Bloc’s advantages in the Cold War, highlighted America’s tendency to react
“Fascist” North Korea? — B.R. Myers
I was 29 when I first began drawing attention to North Korean propagandists’ heavy use of mother symbolism, and their depiction of adult Koreans as
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“Conspiracy Theory”? — B.R. Myers
Most people are like Proust’s Duc de Guermantes, in that they assume all criticism of someone the critic knows personally must derive from personal
On the Peace Treaty … and Confederation — B.R. Myers
[Below are the opening remarks to a speech on history I gave last Thursday at the École française d’Extrême-Orient in Anam-dong. During the Q
A Note on Singapore
Pyongyang watchers have always found reasons not to discuss ideology. According to the first consensus, North Korea was just a mindless satellite of
Trends in South Korea’s Nationalist-Left Discourse — B.R. Myers
For years the American press gave us sporadic reports on how blasé South Koreans were about the threat from the North, and how indifferent they had