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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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Up close, North Korea is not Stalinist — it’s simply racist.

North Korea's Race Problem (2010)

I don’t buy the common notion that if the US and South Korea promise convincingly enough never to topple the Kim dictatorship from without, it will let itself be toppled slowly from within.

Conspiracy Theory"? (2019)

LKP carries on the tradition of President Kim Young Sam (1993-98). Like him it has no firm political principles.

South Korea’s Nationalist-Left Front (2019)

No one ever said the regime’s legitimacy reposes in the nukes themselves. It rests on a commitment to the unyielding defense and unification of the Korean nation.

And Then What? (2018)

North Korea is looking more and more like a poor man's version of South Korea.

Interview with Colin Marshall (2015)

North Korea's future depends on a large extent on South Korea's future.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

[O]ne's political ideology is inextricable from one's view of history.

Heaven is Helping Us": More from the Nationalist Left (2018)

What you have here in South Korea really is extreme nationalists.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

Everybody really is the "other" for North Koreans.

Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

The South needs to retire the conventional civic religion here, which is anti-Japanese pan-Korean nationalism in favor of a collective identification with constitutional principles.

Interview with the Reuters War College (2017)

In South Korea, which is a much less conservative environment, politicians do not take their wives around with them as much as their American counterparts do. Showing pride in your wife is thought of as juvenile bad form. There's a special pejorative for people who do it.

Interview with Isaac Chotiner (2013)

[T]here’s much more to far-rightism than fascism. See the Nationalkonservativen in Weimar Germany.

The surrender of something attained heroically and at great cost — something to which the well-being of entire generations has been sacrificed — is far more dangerous to a government than not having it to begin with.

And Then What? (2018)

The world's complacency about North Korea’s nukes is inspired in large part by memories of stodgy Soviets who had the bomb for 40 years and never used it.

Interview with Sun-jung Kim (2005)

[T]hose who haven’t yet grasped the ideological realities of the [Korean] peninsula probably never will.

Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (2018)

[S]omeone who doesn’t know a country’s history is bound to chuckle at the things its people worry about.

Conspiracy Theory"? (2019)

[R]ace theory is at variance with all Korean traditions; not for nothing did the national language lack a word for race until modern times.

North Korea's State Loyalty Advantage (2011)

It all comes down to what neither the softliners nor the hardliners want to acknowledge: this is a successful right-wing state, not a failed communist one.

Interview with Joshua Stanton (2017)

North Korea knows a nuclear war is unwinnable. I also think it fancies its chances of a peaceful takeover too highly to want to risk a premature invasion while U.S. troops are here.

Interview with The Conversation (2017)

[S]tart by reading Pareto; elites routinely do things that in retrospect look politically suicidal.

Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (2018)

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