track" propaganda specifically targets foreigners. Reception and criticism Myers’ book The Cleanest Race has been challenged by several academic critics. Charles K. Armstrong, then of Columbia University, suggested that the book "gives an intellectual gloss to attitudes many in the West already have about the DPRK". Felix Abt, a Swiss business affairs specialist who lived in North Korea for seven years, describes Myers' claims in The Cleanest Race as "flawed" and "shaky". Abt wrote that it was "rather absurd" to describe Juche as "window-dressing" for foreigners. South Korean literary critic Yearn Hong Choi also regards the thesis of Myers' Han Sǒrya and North Korean Literature as erroneous: Tatiana Gabroussenko points out that Myers is the only Western academic who thinks that North Korean literature does not have the hallmarks of socialist realism. Scholar Andrei Lankov favorably reviewed The Cleanest Race as taking a "fresh approach" on North Korea. Lankov also says Myers' work is "informative" but is not sure whether his thesis has any relation to reality. Personal life and politics Myers is married to a South Korean woman, Myung-hee Myers. He lives and teaches in South Korea, where he moved to in September 2001. During the late 1990s, he lived in Valencia County, New Mexico. Politically, Myers is a supporter of the Green Party of the United States and animal rights. Myers can speak Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, and German. He is a vegan. Bibliography See also Propaganda in North Korea References Further reading External links B.R. Myers Dongseo University Faculty Page Recent articles by B. R. Myers The Atlantic Citation of Myers' work in The Week 1963 births Academic staff of Dongseo University American people of British descent Koreanists Living people People from New Jersey Ruhr University Bochum alumni The New York Times people The Wall Street Journal people The Atlantic (magazine) people University of Tübingen alumni American expatriates in South Africa American expatriates in Germany American expatriates in South Korea Academic staff of Korea University Academic staff of Inje University American expatriate academics