It looks like North Korean diplomats can pretty much do whatever they want in Myanmar:
North Korean diplomats in Myanmar confiscated more than 300 copies of a biography of their reclusive leader Kim Jong Il that was written by a local author.
Well-known Myanmar writer Hein Latt said Friday that two diplomats from the North Korean Embassy visited his publishing house early this month and complained that facts about their leader in his Myanmar-language biography – titled “Kim Jong Il: North Korea’s Dear Leader” – were “incorrect and false.”
They told him the book could harm bilateral relations and demanded he hand over copies that were not yet sold. “I had to hand over the remaining 310 copies of the books to them because I am afraid of the North Koreans,” he said.
The diplomats had no right to seize the books as they had been approved by the government’s Press Scrutiny Department, Hein Latt said, adding he received no compensation.
Hein Latt said the Korean diplomats told him he got the facts “especially wrong” because he used two books published in the United States as references. [Associated Press]
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11:07 am on August 7th, 2010 1
Do North Koreans misbehave?
Take your books, rant and raves?
Shoot the brutes some Burma Shave.
2:22 pm on August 7th, 2010 2
Clinton Odell is rolling in his grave.
7:23 pm on August 7th, 2010 3
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9:38 pm on August 7th, 2010 4
Regarding the confiscating/stealing, won't the author be compensated by his insurance company (assuming he was insured)?
10:15 pm on August 7th, 2010 5
TJ,
Absolutely right.
I read the Myanmar National Literary Loss and Confiscation Insurance Trust Corporation is already at work to resolve his claim.
10:32 pm on August 7th, 2010 6
ChickenHead,
Thanks for the reply. At least his personal loss won't be huge.
On other news: Swedish news published ~45 minutes ago "North Korea seize South Korean ship".
A South Korean fishing ship was seized in the Japanese sea and taken to the North Korean harbor Songjin.
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/varlden/article1197650/…