As elsewhere, the book industry in Japan has realised that today's publishing, with nearly half its stock winding up as pulp, is a rotten way of doing business.
Mr Kim knew the commander here, and we were accompanied by a military escort of a half dozen soldiers up a winding jungle trail to the mountainside temple grounds.
Half an hour later, Plank is in a black SUV, barreling down a winding tree-lined road outside of Baltimore, his stress seeming to peel away with every passing mile.