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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font size="4" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I wouldn’t trust Brian Myers to evaluate someone else’s scholarship. He actually posted on his blog a while back a recommendation to readers to trust a totally concocted “account” of the May 18, 1980, massacre in Kwangju that claimed that the whole incident was caused by North Korean agents who had infiltrated Kwangju before May 18: <span lang="EN-CA">Daniel Kim (Kim Taeryŏng) Y<i>ŏksarosŏ ŭi 5.18: 5.18 chaep’an pŏmniŭi mosun </i>[Looking at May 18 in historical perspective: Legal contradictions in the trials related to the May 18 incident- (Seoul: Pibong Books, 2013)</span> Myers went on to assert on his blog that "there is evidence or testimony t<span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">o back up the claim of DPRK </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">involvement.</span><font color="#232323">”</font> He has now removed that post from his blog, so maybe he realized how ridiculous his assertion was. (The original posting was at <a href="http://sthelepress.com/index.php/2016/06/14/recommendation-may-18th-as-history-2013/">http://sthelepress.com/index.php/2016/06/14/recommendation-may-18th-as-history-2013/</a></font><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4">Don Baker</font></div></div><br>Don Baker <div>Professor</div><div>Department of Asian Studies </div><div>University of British Columbia </div><div>Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2 </div><div>don.baker@ubc.ca</div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: jiyulkim@gmail.com<br>Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:09:00 -0400<br>To: koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com<br>Subject: [KS] Re-revised posting "Revoking a Recommendation"<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">[NOTE TO ADMINISTRATOR: please discard two earlier versions and review this for posting]</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;"><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">I came across this recent posting by B. R. Myers revoking his recommendation for Charles Armstrong's <i style="box-sizing:border-box;">Tyranny of the Weak</i> (2013)<i style="box-sizing:border-box;">.</i> Myers' revocation is, for me, unprecedented.</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Myers compares Armstrong's <i style="box-sizing:border-box;">Tyranny </i>with Balazs Szalontai's <i style="box-sizing:border-box;">Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era</i> (2005)<i style="box-sizing:border-box;">. </i>He gives detailed examples why he can't support the book. If there is any truth to what Myers says then it is all very disturbing since Armstrong's books are widely admired and used.</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">I wonder what others think. Myers' post can be found at </div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;"><a href="http://sthelepress.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">http://sthelepress.com/</a></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Jiyul Kim</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Oberlin College</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12.8px;">Oberlin, Ohio</div></div></div> </div></body>
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