Quotes from Mother of All Mothers — Brian Reynolds Myers
born 1963 United States
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Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)
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)
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)
If South Korea's dictatorships were America's running dogs, then North Korea was the Eastern bloc's house cat: intractable, convinced of its superiority, and to some observers a more independent creature, but never much good at feeding itself—even after the can openers started falling silent in 1989.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)
North Korea is a unique socialist country in that its ruling ideology is conveyed through what is written about its leaders, not by them, and the message could hardly be simpler. Foreigners bad, Koreans good, Leader best.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)