During Korn Chatikavanij’s walkabout in Samut Sakhon, a tough fishing town a few hours west of Bangkok, security is light for such a high-profile minister of state at this difficult and dangerous time for his country.
A few traffic cops casually – and mostly successfully – try to move vehicles around the town’s jammed streets, to allow Korn’s modest ministry Toyota through the throng. Progress is slow and Korn abandons the car to plunge into the crowd.
“My staff tell me I’m too blasé about security,” he says, as he greets traders and stallholders with a wai, Thailand’s traditional clasped-hand greeting.
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