Cold War International History Project
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USS Pueblo Crisis

Record of Conversation between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and North Korean Charge d’Affaires Kang Ch’ol-gun
January 31 1968 - The DPRK capture of American spy ship, the Pueblo, and the support by the Soviet Union were discussed. Soviet Union assures the DPRK that they have taken extensive measures within the United Nations Security Council; The possible support by Afro-American nations on the Security Council, and the use of the Soviet's veto power regarding the matter.
 
“On the current problems of the international situation and on the struggle of the CPSU for the unity of the international communist movement,” Excerpt from a speech by Leonid Brezhnev at the April (1968) CC CPSU Plenum
April 09 1968 - A memorandum regarding the incursion of the US's military vessel, Pueblo, in the Korean waters. The US increased deployment of miliatry forces to the East; The DPRK and Soviet Union's react to this mobilization. The DPRK and Soviet Union discuss intentions on strenghtening ties with one another.
 
Record of Conversation between Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Aleksei Kosygin and North Korean Ambassador in the USSR Chon Tu-hwan
May 06 1968 - DPRK diplomat, Chon Tu-hwan expresses his satisfaction about the mutual relationship between the DPRK and the Soviet Union. He discusses the Pueblo incident, and remarks on the increased tension on the Korean peninsula and in the far east. A.N. Kosgygin describes in frank detail, the continuous economic co-operation that the Soviet Union has with the DPRK.
 
Report, Embassy of Hungary in North Korea to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry
June 03 1968 - Report from meeting of Hungarian and Romanian ambassadors with head of National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The NLF comments on the balance of power on the peninsula, and the modernization of the DPRK armed forces.
 

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