NORTH KOREAN CIB ARTICLE 16 APRIL 1969

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• Publication Date: April 16, 1969

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North Korea: Yesterday's shootdown appears to
have been deliberate. (Page 2)
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North Korea: CLa_sterday's shootdown of a US
reconnaissance aircraft over the Sea of Japan has
all the earmarks of a deliberate action
ongyang radio linked this incident with an
allege Y simultaneous US "provocation" along the
military demarcation line and enjoined the US "ag-
gressors" to bear in mind that North. Korean warn-
ings of retaliation are "not empty words." The
North Koreans probably believe that, in the after-
math of the Pueblo affair, a considerable body of
world opinion is likely to be receptive to their
claim that the aircraft had violated North Korean
airspac;73
(ongyang's prompt move to call, for a Military
Armistice Commission meeting on 18 April apparently
is designed to portray North Korea as the aggrieved
party and to provide an effective propaganda forum
for elaborating charges of US "aggressiorTj
In taking the calculated risk of shooting
down t e- US aircraft, the North Koreans probably
were motivated in part by a desire to offset the
failure of their attempts over the past year to
generate an "armed guerrilla struggle" in South
Korea and to undermine and demoralize the Seoul
government
Eince the crushing of their ambitious infiltra-
tion operation on South Korea's east coast last
November, North Korean harassment and pressures
along the Demilitarized Zone have declined to the
low level that usually characterizes the winter
months. This latest act of defiance against the
US may be intended as a forerunner of another round
of aggressive pressure in the Demilitarized Zone
area as the weather improves-7)
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(51-71p Kim- Il-sung regime may also have intended
this move as a forceful demonstration_to the new
US administration that North Korea has no intention
of retreating from its unc nventional warfare cam-
paign_Against South Korea.
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