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Usually the South Korean left is blamed for the public's lack of patriotism, but it is the right who made blood nationalism a state religion.
The world isn't going to become an Islamic caliphate, but that doesn’t stop the Islamists from pursuing that as a goal.
The South Korean flag continues to function at least in South Korea, not as a symbol of the state but as a symbol of the race.
Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2014)
When the average man sees the flag, he feels fraternity.
To North Korea, diplomacy is another form of war.
Stranger Than Fiction (2005)
Like all men I have a maternal instinct, but I can clutch only so many characters to my breast at one time.
The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.
The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty.
North Korea's Juche Myth (2015)
The North wants unification under its own flag, while South Korean progressives want the two states to coalesce over decades of mutually beneficial economic cooperation.
Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (2018)
Show me a persona non grata, and I'll show you a persona non give a shit.
Like Goethe and Spengler I’m convinced that history has an inner, organic logic which can’t be grasped purely in terms of causality.
Interview with Methodik (2019)
Korean nationalism is its emphasis on the vulnerability of the race.
North Korea's Race Problem (2010)
Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)
You cannot have racial pride without an inferior other.
Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)
The North knows it cannot enjoy true security so long as the South is enjoying itself next door, be it ever so harmless in military terms and even free of US troops.
Confederation Again (2018)
Koreans in both the north and the south tend to cherish the myth that of all peoples in the world, they are the least inclined to premeditated evil.
South Korea's Collective Shrug (2010)
The question of where Europe ends and Asia begins has troubled many people over the years, but here's a rule of thumb: if someone can pose as an expert on the country in question without knowledge of the relevant language, it's part of Asia.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)
Nationalism is about putting the (ethno-)nation above liberal-democratic and leftist values alike. Once one takes that step, one is not separated from other nationalists by anything irreducible.
South Korea’s Nationalist-Left Front (2019)
North Korea’s interest in confederation is in first disarming and then eliminating the rival state.
Conspiracy Theory"? (2019)
North Korea kept harassing the South, and one day they just clicked: Tell me that isn't a stalker's dream writ geopolitical.
Confederation Again (2018)