The literary scholar and historian B. R. Myers has long argued that North Korea is a racist and xenophobic state and that it has pursued unification with the South on the basis of its claims to ethnic superiority.

An investigation of North Korean official sources — including academic journals, websites targeting South Korea, and even leaders’ works — confirms his claims about the regime’s exclusionary nationalism, revealing a state obsessed with racial purity and critical of those of mixed race.

And now that leader Kim Jong Un has officially abandoned reunification as a major goal of