Brian Reynolds Myers: North

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“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.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

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

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

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

“Everybody really is the "other" for North Koreans.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)

“Let’s remember not only how many South Koreans were killed, injured or abducted during a war the North started, but also that one of the most shocking parts of that conflict for people who experienced KPA occupation was seeing neighbors emerge on day one as fully-formed, snitching supporters of the enemy. Many bore titles in the underground organizations to which, it turned out, they had belonged for years. In several recorded cases they denounced people who were shot on the spot. That trauma sits deep.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, "Conspiracy Theory"? (August 2019)

“Journalism is the most Americanized of all professions, and nothing is more American than the belief that economic matters trump ideological ones. There is very little talk of ideology in coverage of any country. Western journalists here see a poor North facing off against a rich South and laugh at the notion that the former might have serious designs on the latter. They don’t seem aware of what I call the South’s state-loyalty deficit.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Isaac Chotiner (January 2018)

“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.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with The Conversation (September 2017)

“[A]crobatics are very much an American thing. No one does wishful thinking like we do. I don’t see South Korean progressivists pretending that the regime’s every word and deed can be boiled down to the same reassuring message. In fact, part of the reason many of them feel a sneaking admiration for the North is because it follows through on its Yankee-defying rhetoric. But that’s another topic.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, On Experts and Exegetes (September 2017)

“So I’m going to say this once again: North Korea’s immediate goal is the withdrawal of US troops. Its ultimate goal is the unification of the peninsula under the star flag. And yes, it has good reason to believe this can be done without a war.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, On Experts and Exegetes (September 2017)

“We really need to understand that the North Koreans are not as traumatized by things like the "Axis of Evil" remark or things like this Vinson flotilla as some people in the Pyongyang-watching community seem to think.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with the Reuters War College (April 2017)

“Communism is all about breaking down nationalism, about uniting workers around the world, and North Korea has always been about the opposite, it’s been about racial purity and pride, so remember North Korea was isolated even inside the old east-block, even inside the Soviet block.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Park Jin Keol (March 2012)

“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.”

Brian Reynolds Myers

2000s, Interview with Sun-jung Kim (May 2005)