Abstract
Nami Kim’s chapter examines how transnational conservative Christian human rights advocacy for North Koreans functions as a platform for the regeneration of the myth of American exceptionalism and the justification of US military presence in East Asia. Through the analysis of conservative Christian politics of human rights and its discourse, Kim argues that the politics of representation (i.e., representation of victim(s), villain(s), and savior(s)) is central to conservative Christian human rights discourse. A deeper question to understand this politics of representation is one that addresses the connection between the imperial logics of the Cold War manifested in anticommunism, the myth of American exceptionalism and Korean exceptionalism, and the mobilizing power of conservative Christians across national borders, on the one hand, and the gendered and raced subject of rescue and the Christian evangelizing mission expressed in the form of human rights advocacy, on the other hand.
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