A study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime's domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country's official myths in turn - from the notion of Koreans' unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of "the Iron General."

Now revised and expanded with new details about the mysterious future leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un.

A history of North Korea's official culture --Understanding North Korea through its myths -- Mother Korea and her children -- The parent leader -- The dear leader -- Foreigners -- The Yankee colony.