[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. - Brian Reynolds Myers

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.

[O]ne cannot respect the orthodox version of history without perpetuating the ideology behind it.

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.