 He then served as his country's ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1968 till his retirement from the Pyongyang posting in November 1972.Georg Henke featured as a minor character in the first part of a three volume novel "The aesthetics of Resistance" (""Die Ästhetik des Widerstands"") by the German-born writer Peter Weiss.Weiss interviewed Henke on 20 October 1972 and used the results of their talk in the book's second and third volume.