“Americans won’t pay the slightest attention. Least of all Trump. As far as they’re concerned, the North Koreans are communists, and you’re liberal”

—  Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Trends in South Korea’s Nationalist-Left Discourse (June 2018)
Context: Moon camp: You can talk as loudly as you want, and the Americans won’t pay the slightest attention. Least of all Trump. As far as they’re concerned, the North Koreans are communists, and you’re liberal democrats.

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