Essay:The Cleanest Farce: How "Experts" Distort the DPRK

Review of B. R. Myers’ The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (2011), a Novel by a Supposed "Leading Expert"

Notes:

• The preface makes no mention of joint U.S.-SK war games on the peninsula in order to paint a picture of NK “military escalations” which suits his purposes.

• When discussing the “superior economy” of the south, U.S. investment in SK and global sanctions on the north are not given adequate coverage.

• The “attacks on South Korean forces in 2010” (preface to 2011 paperback edition), are, according to Myers, a case of north Korean weapons posturing, though they were in actuality response to south Korean war demonstrations.

1 The annual U.S.-SK war rehearsals are