High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters is a non-fiction book by Brian Reynolds Myers. Based on a study of the Propaganda in North Korea for internal consumption, Myers argues that the guiding ideology of North Korea is a race-based nationalism derived from Japanese fascism, rather than any form of Communism. Since Anti-Americanism is a core pillar of the North Korean government`s legitimacy, according to the book, peaceful efforts to disarm it of its nuclear weapons are unlikely to be fruitful. Upon its publication in 2010, The Cleanest Race received overwhelming praise in the American press, although some North Korea scholars questioned the novelty of its premise and the completeness of its analysis.