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Nuclear test: What the Western media gets wrong about North Korea's motives

B R Myers says many South Korean intellectuals admire the North for standing up to the world

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The actions of Kim Jong Un are set to further increase tensions in the region, where concerns have grown that a war of words between US President Donald Trump and N Korea’s supreme leader could set off a military conflict Photo: Reuters

B R Myers | The Conversation

North Korea’s sixth nuclear test on September 3 – of what was possibly a hydrogen bomb – prompted a flurry of Western media think pieces attempting to explain the past and predict the future.

Most left out important aspects of the current crisis, says analyst B.R. Myers, a South Korea-based academic expert on North Korean propaganda and author of The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters.

In this Q&A, The Conversation asked Professor Myers to explain what most in the West are missing about the North-South conflict.

You’re always complaining about press coverage of the