Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy
By Bertil Lintner
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Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan
By Bertil Lintner
Great Leader, Dear Leader is an absorbing exposé of North Korea under the Kim clan—Great Leader Kim Il Sung and his son, Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. It traces the origin of the regime's ideology and investigates its attempts to fill its empty state coffers through missile technology sales and other unorthodox schemes. It examines the regime's relations with South Korea, the countrywide famine and the juche ideal, the "military first" policy, and the nuclear weapons program.
One of very few Western journalists to visit North Korea in 2004, author Bertil Lintner demystifies rather than demonizes the least known of the "Axis of Evil" countries by taking us behind the wall of secrecy and the many misperceptions that surround North Korea. He interviews Koreans from both sides of the divided peninsula, as well as ethnic Koreans in Japan and leading Korea experts, to present an intriguing analysis of what has been happening in this shrouded country, and what we might expect in the future. In 2004 Bertil Lintner, a Thailand-based foreign correspondent and author, received an award for excellence in reporting about North Korea from the Society of Publishers in Asia.
Great Leader, Dear Leader is published by Silkworm Books in Chiang Mai and available in all major bookshops in Thailand.
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Errata
p. 140, line 4 should read: Kim Chi O died from injuries sustained during his arrest and Zin Mo was hanged in 1985. But Kang Min Chul's life was spared because he cooperated with the prosecution.
p. 200, line 30: says "US$16.5 million," should read "US$165 million."
Correction to the Chronology
p. 213, line 16: says "the West Sea (which the Japanese call the Sea of Japan, term much resented in Korea)," should read "the West Sea (which is called the Yellow Sea on most international maps)"
p. 220, line 27: says "May 31-June 3," should read "June 23-26"
Blood Brothers: Crime, Business and Politics in Asia
By Bertil Lintner
"While criminals may live outside the law, they have never been outside society. In Asia, there has always been a symbiosis between law and crime."
All over Asia bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact while organised crime networks threaten the rest of the world. Russian gangsters are active in New York, Miami and California; Chinese gangs run Chinatowns all over the United States and Europe; Vietnamese mobsters have taken over the heroin trade to Australia and the Japanese yakuza not only influence government and business at home, but chase the yen through Southeast Asia and Hawaii to Australia's Gold Coast.
Organised crime is one of the biggest and most complicated issues in the Asia-Pacific today. Both Western and Asian pundits assert that shady deals are an Asian way of life. Some argue that corruption and illicit business ventures - gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking, gun running, oil smuggling - are entrenched parts of the Asian value system. Yet many Asian leaders maintain that their cities are safer than Sydney, Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles. Bertil Lintner knows this territory well. In Blood Brothers, he takes the reader inside the criminal fraternities of Asia andthe Far East, from Russian gangsters and Japan's yakuza to Taiwan's United Bamboo Gang and the Vietnamese Triad. In examining these networks, Lintner seeks to answer the question: How are civil societies all over the world to be protected from the worst excesses of increasingly globalised mobsters?
This is investigative journalism at its best and most relevant.
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Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle
By Bertil Lintner and Michael Black
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The Kachin: Lords of Burma's Northern Frontier
By Bertil Lintner
Remarkable for their military prowess, their receptivity to Christianity, and their intricate all-embracing kinship networks, the Kachins are a hardy mountain people living in the remote hills of northern Burma and on the peripheries of India and China. In this richly illustrated book, Bertil Lintner describes their history, religion, culture and social system. It was published in 1997 by the now defunct Teak House Books in Chiang Mai, Thailand, but is still available from CPA or AsiaBooks.
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The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB)
By Bertil Lintner
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Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy
By Bertil Lintner
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Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948
By Bertil Lintner
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Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China
By Bertil Lintner
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Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy
By Bertil Lintner
(in Korean, published October 2007)
Price: 16,000 Won (about US$15.60)
You save: 10% (if you order online)
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Asianetwork (November 7, 2007)
ISBN-13: 978-89-960239-1-3
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The Golden Triangle
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By Bertil Lintner / Narrated by Richard C Hottelet
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Thailand: mer än sol och stränder
By Bertil Lintner
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