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As quoted in "The Uses and Misuses of Ideology" https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=8158 (8 September 2011), by Chris Green, The Daily NK
2010s

“South Korea has its most pacifist administration ever… [P]eople here do not identify strongly with their state. No public holiday celebrates it, neither the flag nor the coat of arms nor the anthem conveys republican or non-ethnic values, no statues of presidents stand in major cities. Few people can even tell you the year in which the state was founded. When the average [South Korean] man sees the [South Korean] flag, he feels fraternity with [ethnic] Koreans around the world.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, North Korea's Unification Drive (December 2017)

“[I]f we’re going to jeer at North Korea for being a de facto monarchy, we must also acknowledge the main advantage of such a system: no divisive squabbling over who has the right to rule. On my book tour for “The Cleanest Race” I used the example of my British mother: a firm supporter of the monarchy with different estimations of the various royals. She doesn’t like the idea of Charles becoming king, but accepts that it will and must happen.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Joshua Stanton (August 2017)

“The whole point of the military-first policy was not so much to whip up support for the military as to de-ideologize the economic sector, to make it possible to dismantle the command economy without dismantling the authority of the whole system.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Joshua Stanton (August 2017)

“Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2000s, Mother of All Mothers (September 2004)

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

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (March 2018)

“[T]he once-marginal myth that the [South Korean] republic came into existence in Shanghai in 1919 as a nationalist state has become orthodox with remarkable speed.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, "Heaven is Helping Us": More from the Nationalist Left (August 2018)

“"Freedom of speech is the freedom to shout Long Live Kim Il Sung": This has been a commonplace here since Kim Su-yŏng’s famous poem to that effect in 1960. It’s not to be taken too literally or narrowly; one gets the larger meaning. But it’s not that much larger. When dissidents and demonstrators called for freedom of speech in the past it was usually nationalist, anti-American and pro-North speech they had in mind.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Confederation Again (July 2018)

“Many intellectuals here [in South Korea] admire the North for standing up to the world. It’s a right-wing sort of admiration, really, for a resolute state that does what it says. More common than admiration are feelings of shared ethnic identity with the North. We are perhaps too blinkered by our own globalism to understand how natural they are.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with The Conversation (September 2017)

“[U]ntil the colonial period Korea had one of the world’s longest histories of centralized rule; that the ROK is about a quarter of Germany's size; and that the likelihood of Kim Jong Un devolving any of his power to mayors and governors is zero.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Confederation Again (July 2018)

“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.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2000s, Mother of All Mothers (September 2004)

“[South] Koreans are more comfortable with Americans who behave like Americans.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Colin Marshall (February 2015)

“The left wing and the right wing in this country [South Korea] are equally invested in keeping alive the myth of a far-left North Korea. This is what exasperates me. I realize that I'm up against so many different constituencies, each of which has an interest in maintaining the myth of North Korea as a far left state.”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2014)

“North Korea enjoys an important advantage over its rival, for in the Republic of Korea ethno-nationalism militates against support for a state that is perceived as having betrayed the race. South Koreans' "good race, bad state" attitude is reflected in widespread sympathy for the people of the north and in ambivalent feelings toward the United States and Japan, which are regarded as friends of the republic but enemies of the race”

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Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, North Korea's State Loyalty Advantage (December 2011)
Kontext: Korea's northern border remains easy to cross, and North Koreans are now well aware of the prosperity enjoyed south of the demilitarized zone, Kim Jong-il continues to rule over a stable and supportive population. Kim enjoys mass support due to his perceived success in strengthening the race and humiliating its enemies. Thanks in part to decades of skillful propaganda, North Koreans generally equate the race with their state, so that ethno-nationalism and state-loyalty are mutually enforcing. In this respect North Korea enjoys an important advantage over its rival, for in the Republic of Korea ethno-nationalism militates against support for a state that is perceived as having betrayed the race. South Koreans' "good race, bad state" attitude is reflected in widespread sympathy for the people of the north and in ambivalent feelings toward the United States and Japan, which are regarded as friends of the republic but enemies of the race.