mind-set

mind-set (plural mind-sets)

1. Alternative form of mindset
   • 2015 March 20, Blaine Harden, “The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 March 2015, Opinions‎:

     “It is still the 1950s in North Korea and the conflict with South Korea and the United States is still going on,” says Kathryn Weathersby, a scholar of the Korean War. “People in the North feel backed into a corner and threatened.”
     There is real value in understanding this paranoid mind-set. It puts the calculated belligerence of the Kim family into context. It also undermines the notion that North Korea is merely a nut-case state.