NORTH KOREAN CIB ARTICLE 29 APRIL 1969

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• Publication Date: April 29, 1969

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Korea: Pyongyang is showing frustration over its
inability to win foreign support for its position on
the shootdown. (Page 2)
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Korea: Pyongyang is showing increased frus-
tration over its failure to obtain foreign support
for its version of the incident of 15 April.
Moscow's first editorial comment on the affair,
contained in Pravda on 27 April, may have been a
result of similar prodding. According to the US
Embassy in Moscow, the article claimed that the
"Soviet people" condemned the "dangerous actions"
of the US in the area. This is the closest the So-
viets have come to a clear endorsement of North Ko-
rean actions.
The article probably reflects Moscow's estimate
that the most dangerous part of the US - North Ko-
rean confrontation is past, and that the likelihood
of Soviet involvement has lessened accordingly. By
stating that the US "must" stop its activities--
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particularly the concentration of forces in the Sea
of Japan--the article also served to convey Moscow's
uneasiness over a US task force operating relatively
near the Soviet Union.
North Korea has made no public comment as yet
on the dispersal of US naval units from the Sea of
Japan.
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