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born 1963 United States

Brian Reynolds "B. R." Myers (born 1963) is an American journalist and associate professor of international studies at at Dongseo University in Busan, South Korea, best known for his writings on North Korea.

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Also known as: B. R. Myers, B.R. Myers, BR Myers, BR myers, Br myers

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North Korea has to inspire its people and so far it's done that.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

Seoul doesn't have the will to "De-Kim Il Sungify" North Korea.

They have a much more positive view of the country than I do.

Interview with Colin Marshall (2015)

These days people like Yi are more likely to end up in the Blue House or KBS than in jail.

League Confederation Goes Outer-Track (2018)

[P]ride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other.

Few things are more important to Pyongyang than its propaganda apparatus. Even when the rest of the nation came to a standstill in the mid-1990s, it never missed a beat.

Stranger Than Fiction (2005)

The Korean people have always been more outward-looking than their insecure leaders, and for centuries this was especially true of those in the northern part of the peninsula.

Mother of All Mothers (2004)

We need only look at the much lower level of anti-Americanism in Vietnam to realize that suffering incurred in wars does not necessarily dictate decades of animosity and fear between peoples. It’s what propaganda does with history — for contemporary political ends — that counts.

Koreans in general are very generous about misrepresentations when it’s another Korean doing the misrepresenting.

Interview with Sun-jung Kim (2005)

Americans can't really handle the truth, the enormity of the truth.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

They can't understand why any American in his right mind who's not escaping a jail term or something, would voluntarily want to come to [South] Korea and live here.

Interview with Colin Marshall (2015)

South Korean nationalism is something quite different from the patriotism toward the state that Americans feel. Identification with the Korean race is strong, while that with the Republic of Korea is weak.

South Korea's Collective Shrug (2010)

Triteness of content has not necessarily hurt ideologies in the past. There are very few original or profound ideologies on the political scene.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2014)

South Koreans do not consider the integrity of their state important enough to go to war for.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

You don't prove a point with nationalists; you cannot make nationalists happy.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

North Korea fears an improvement in relations.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

South Korea is a very capital-centric country.

Interview with Colin Marshall (2015)

[S]trong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior — even the friendly ones.

North Korea's Race Problem (2010)

Americans saw Watergate as a threat to their republic. They countered by following constitutional and legal procedure to the letter. In Korea, many people appear unwilling to separate the political system from the wrongdoings of politicians.

Has the Republic of Korea ever been more obviously unloved than in this year of "Hell Chosun"?

Still the Unloved Republic (2016)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Reynolds Myers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.