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Britain once fought under a Security Council injunction observed by many nations to furnish help to repay. The reporters are earning their pay today trying to get a hold of delegates for comment on this increasingly grave situation. Here's a little background on the composition of the United Nations Security Council. The Security Council is composed of five permanent members of the United States the United Kingdom the Soviet Union France and Nationalist China. There are 10 nonpermanent or rotating member nations who serve for two years. Five are chosen each year to provide an overlap of representation in the Security
Council the nonpermanent members presently sitting in the Security Council are Algeria Brazil Canada Ethiopia Hungary Denmark India Pakistan Paraguay and Senegal. The presidency of the Security Council rotates every month on an alphabetical basis. This month's council president is the representative from Pakistan. Mr. Shah he. North Korea is not represented in the United Nations nor is there any member nation which handles matter for the North Koreans. North Korea not being a member of the United Nations has refused in the past to respond to U.N. efforts for peaceful peaceful settlements of divided Korea's problems. South Korea is not a member either but keeps a permanent observer at the UN under the terms of the Korean Armistice Agreement signed at Panmunjom in 1953. This is the first serious incident requiring Security Council actions since the Korean War erupted in 1950. There have been many border violations by North Korea
since the armistice. In Moscow U.S. ambassador Llewellyn Thompson who had no luck Tuesday in persuading the Soviets to act as intermediary in the dispute with North Korea made another call at the Foreign Office today while the American embassy made no comment on the new attempt at a Soviet source said the ambassador again was unsuccessful in getting the Soviet government to play some role in unraveling the crisis. Premier Chung equine of South Korea urged the United States Thursday to take stern action in response to North Korea's seizure of the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Pueblo and the recently increased campaign of communist infiltration into South Korea. Meanwhile a U.S. military spokesman said that American air strength in South Korea had been augmented by additional planes brought to Seoul on standby status since the Pueblo incident on Sunday. South Korean authorities
announced that 19 members of a North Korean commando unit that penetrated to within a quarter of a mile of President Park's official palace in the heart of Seoul Sunday have been killed by the army. One member of the 31 man unit who was captured has stated that the purpose was to assassinate the South Korean premier. Sixteen South Koreans including nine soldiers one policeman and six civilians have died so far and 34 others wounded in exchanges of fire with the remnants of the Communist commando group. Early today the second U.S. soldier was killed by hostile fire during a sweep for North Korean infiltrators. U.S. Army authorities reported six separate firefights with a band of 10 communist infiltrators last night and today in the second division sector along the western end of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Two Korean soldiers assigned to American units were killed and eight Americans were wounded in these encounters. Premier Chung a former army general who had commanded all the southern forces at the height of the
Korean War warned that a lukewarm U.S. response to the Pueblo incident would encourage the communists to engage in another Korean War. In an interview the 50 year old premier linked the increased communist infiltration as confirmation of threats by the North Korean Premier Kim Il-Song to reunify the divided Korean nation by force Chung said that his government views recent events as the outcome of preparations begun in 1957 when the North Korean premier declared that Pyongyang would be ready for a war in 10 years. The US government warned North Korea today against any trial of the USS Pueblo screw men as criminals and asked the International Red Cross to seek their immediate release. State Department press officer Robert J McCloskey issued the warning after U.S. monitors had picked up a North Korean broadcaster declaring the Americans who were captured by North Korean patrol boats along with their ship as criminals who must be dealt with by law.
Meanwhile President Johnson conferred again with advisors but held back any new announcement pending United Nations consideration of the case. Johnson who initiated the recall of nearly fourteen thousand eight hundred air reservists in the crisis resorted at the same time to diplomacy mainly through the United Nations in efforts to gain release of the Navy intelligence ship and the 83 Americans aboard. Communist China has maintained strict silence on North Korean seizure of the US intelligence ship off one North Korea Kyoto News Service is peaking based correspondent said the Friday edition of People's Daily the official Peking newspaper made no mention of the Pueblo incident. It has yet to report the seizure. Peking radio and new China news agency broadcasts coming as China's official news media mounted in Tokyo so far have not carried a single word on the
Pueblo. President Johnson is backing up diplomatic efforts with military preparedness to get North Korea to free the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo. He is calling or has called rather nearly fourteen thousand eight hundred Air Reserve is to indefinite active duty members of Congress generally support the president's mobilization order. But some say they haven't been told enough about the circumstances of the pueblos capture. Navy sources say the pueblos crew blew up the vessel secret coding machine and the North Koreans apparently got nothing that really compromises the United States. As reported earlier the United States has asked for a Security Council meeting seeking help to get the Pueblo and its crew released. That session is about to get underway and we will bring you live coverage over many of these stations. North Korea has said that the crew of the pueblo must be punished by law and
declares that any attack by the United States will be met by a thousand fold retaliation. More North Koreans try to cross the demilitarized zone into South Korea and one American soldier and two North Koreans were killed in new incidents South Korean troops killed two more members of the 31 man band that invaded Seoul on Sunday night in an attempt to assassinate President Chung hee park. US Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson has paid another call on the Soviet Foreign Ministry but a Soviet source says his government has no intention of becoming involved in the pueblo crisis. The Soviet press has accepted the North Korean assertion that the Pueblo was seized in its territorial waters and has denounced Washington's handling of the incident. President Johnson said in a press conference held a few minutes ago that our military forces are prepared for any contingency that might arise in the area of the incident that brought seizure of the American intelligence ship and its crew by the North Koreans.
Johnson speaking on television in a surprise appearance called the seizure. Yet another wanton and aggressive act that took place in our national waters an act he said that clearly cannot be accepted. But in his first public pronouncement on the subject Johnson raised no threat of military intervention to recapture the vessel or free the 83 Americans who were aboard. Rather he said the United States is taking the question to the United Nations Security Council and also taking precautionary measures to ensure the United States for anything that might happen. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana cautioned today against any rash act that could lead to another Asian war because of the seizure of the American ship. Mansfield told an informal news conference that he hopes the United Nations Security Council can find a peaceful settlement of the crisis created by North Korea's capture of the pueblo last Monday night. He said One war is not only enough for the world but too much.
We must move circumspectly a rash act could lead to war. The last thing we need is another land war in Asia. Mansfield said that Secretary of State Dean Rusk reporting to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the public incident had given no new details in the few minutes he Mansfield was able to listen in closed meeting. I don't think the administration has all the facts yet Mansfield said. I think they are sifting the information they have trying to arrive at the facts. However the president's limited mobilization of Reserve chairman is receiving general support from members of Congress many of whom reacted angrily to North Korea's refusal to release the public. And it's a three man crew. Apprehension grew in so Korea today but most U.S. officers apparently expect no massive land war at the moment. It is the middle of winter and the cold Korean winters are not the time to launch wars on the divided peninsula.
All ground forces were on the alert along the 151 mile long demilitarized zone however in the wake of North Korean attempts to infiltrate and the seizure of the pueblo. American soldiers guarding the western part of the de-militarized zone exchanged fire with communist infiltrators in separate incidents last night and early today killing two North Koreans one American soldier was killed. South Korean forces chasing remnants of a band of 31 North Koreans that invaded Seoul on Sunday to try to kill the south. The South Korean premier Park Chung hee killed three more today. This brought to 23 total killed one was captured. North Korea responded to a U.S. call for immediate release of the Pueblo and its crew by demanding an American apology and severe punishment for those it said committed criminal acts
against North Korea. This was shown in a transcript released by the State Department last night of the exchange between U.S. and North Korean representatives at Panmunjom in the wake of the Communist seizure of the public. Press officer Robert McCloskey said a general reading of the invective laden North Korea reply indicates the communists rejected the U.S. presentation no further meeting of the military armistice commission at Panmunjom on the issue has been scheduled so far. The transcript of the meeting quotes Rear Admiral John Smith senior officer of the UN command as complaining first about the North Korean assassination squad infiltrated into South Korea's capital Seoul and then turning to the criminal boarding and seizure of U.S. naval vessel Pueblo in international waters January 23rd. Smith added that the United States besides demanding the return of the vessel and crew intact immediately and an apology to the United States government for this illegal action. Reserves the right to ask for
compensation under international law and will hold the North Korean regime responsible for the consequences from its campaign of provocation sabotage and assassination in violation of the Korean Armistice Agreement and international law. President Park began his response with a denunciation of President Johnson calling him a war maniac Johnson he declared former President John F. Kennedy. US Ambassador Harlan Cleveland told the North Atlantic Council in Belgium today the worst crisis in Korea since the 1953 armistice had broken out. Because because of North Korea's seizure of the pueblo the 15 nations in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed to follow the situation closely.
American sources said Cleveland described a mounting series of incidents over the past two years which showed a carefully laid out campaign on the part of the Communist government of North Korea. These included an attempt by North Korean infiltrators to assassinate President Chung hee Park South Korea. Once again President Johnson went on nationwide television and radio to report what the United States is doing in the recent North Korean sabotage and terrorism aimed at South Korea as well as the Pueblo incident. He said We have taken and are taking certain precautionary measures to make sure that our military forces are prepared for any contingency that might arise in the area. He said the United States is taking the question to the United Nations Security Council and also taking precautionary measures to ensure U.S. military forces are prepared for anything that might happen. Johnson went on the air on a day in which the United States also warned the North Koreans against
any trial of Pueblo crewmen as criminals. Ask the International Red Cross to seek freedom for the 83 Americans who were aboard when North Korean patrol boats captured the pueblo Monday night. The president said the actions he outlined do not involve a reduction in any way of our forces in Vietnam. Johnson voiced the hope that the North Koreans would recognize the seriousness of the situation. He said they had created. He voiced confidence too that the American people would display the determination and the unity required to see this crisis through. The president said he viewed the latest action by the North Koreans as the culmination of 15 months of a stepped up campaign of violence against South Korea and American troops in the area of the demilitarized zone of Korea. He said armed Raider teams in large numbers have been sent into South Korea to engage in sabotage and assassination. A week ago he said a 31 man team of writers invaded the South Korean capital of Seoul to try to murder the President. South Korea Korean and American soldiers have been killed and
wounded in many of these aggressive actions. Japan's Socialist Party asserted today the seizure of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo by North Korea was a dangerous American conspiracy and part of its reckless war policies. The number one Japanese opposition party called on the United States to stop immediately American military threats and acts of provocation against North Korea and to withdraw all the nuclear powered aircraft carrier Enterprise from Korean waters. A statement issued on the final day of the Communist Party's three day national convention asked the United States to seek a peaceful solution to this tense situation. The socialists demanded that the United States suspend its political and military maneuvers launched in the name of the United Nations and pull out all its forces stationed in South Korea. They socialists also accused Prime Minister I psychoses government of trying to cooperate with the new US war policy which it said is threatening to involve Japan in a war against North Korea.
The standing instructions for the US Naval communications ship Pueblo were as reported by The Los Angeles Times Washington Post to avoid an international incident by moving out of the area if harassed rather than using her guns. The ship's 350 caliber machine guns were it is reported to be kept under canvas unless the survival of the ship depended on them. The rules for a ferret or spy ships like the pueblo may explain why her skipper Commander Lloyd Buescher waited until it was too late to resist the North Korean boarding Monday night. Reliable Sources said that North Koreans boarded the pueblo without one shot being fired by the Americans. The injuries to four Pueblo crew men it was learned authoritatively came from the explosions buter set off to destroy the ship's secret communications equipment.
High ranking naval officers I stand behind commander Butte you're on the basis of facts on hand so far. These top officers regard the captain's decisions as consistent with his instructions to avoid trouble. Admiral Thomas Moore chief of naval operations was reported back in the pueblo skipper's decisions to the hilt. Mrs. Rose butcher of San Diego wife of the pueblo skipper said in an interview last night that her husband had expressed the Navy support in a decision in a telephone call Thursday. The Pueblo is not a fighting ship but a passive one with the job of eavesdropping on communications all around it. Her crew are electronic specialists rather than experienced combat men used to rushing to general quarters. A naval officer is reason that future saw the four Korean patrol boats as another in a long series of harassing actions even after the North Koreans forced their way aboard at gunpoint. The captain could have suspected this was a temporary tweak at the United States rather than a plan to capture the ship. There are no sea cocks on the
Pueblo which could have been opened to let enough water in the hole to sink the ship and sources said such ships do not ordinarily carry explosives other than the small ones needed to destroy secret equipment. This would seem to rule out any chance of scuttling his ship and if he did so the lives of these 82 crewmen could have been lost either through freezing in the cold water where the problem lay or from the North Koreans opening fire on them. To recap the situation as we know it today. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg is expected momentarily to address the United Nations Security Council over the seizure by North Korea on Monday of the American intelligence ship Pueblo. And vaster Goldberg direct orders from President Johnson last Thursday for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to secure the immediate return of the ship and its 83 crewmembers seized by North Korea. The decision to bring the
problem before the United Nations was taken after a series of high level meetings at the White House. The president announced Thursday that he was calling into active service more than 14000 air and naval air reserves and 370 meeting of the Security Council is called by some taken out of the floor of the United Nations Security Council where debate is in progress. This meeting of the Security Council has been convened in response to the urgent request of the representative of the United States and following consultations with the members of the council. The provision of the agenda is going to end in document S 1 3 8 8. The first item is the adoption of the agenda. If I hear no objections I shall take it
to distinguished representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and asked for the floor to see ours because they do security because unless we demand you go shark based on what they promise you love I don't need a course if that's your name my body of course a lot or do you have to pry these were out there said they are not as pressed upon me when I do a lot I do a lot of humor those that don't are usually seen yet I don't have it up I don't only know so we can develop. What do you make of what you know Mr. President. As you just said the Security Council as being called following a request of the United States of America. That falls in a letter from Madrid sent to the United States to the United Nations addressed to you.
Late last night the study of that letter which is well-known to the members of the Security Council. Leaves not the slightest doubt. As to. What there is behind this in fact. We would like to draw attention to the fact that the very film in which the matter is raised. The attempt of the United States of America. During consultations which you mentioned to dictate conditions to other members of the council concerning the date and of the meeting of the council to examine its complaint. The unwillingness of the United States negation to take into account the fact that many members of the
Council were unable to take a stand as to the time at which the council should be called. All this Mr. President testifies to the fact that the United States. Not at all motivated by the desire to ensure the maintenance of international peace and security. The Soviet delegation considers it necessary to draw the attention of the members of the council to the fact that accusations leveled by the United States of America against the Korean Democratic Peoples Republic a totally unfounded. The aggressor in Korea is certainly not the Korean People's Democratic Republic but those who invade the territory of the Korean people those who for many years continue to occupy the territory of the south of Korea. Those
who strive to impose upon the Korean people the puppet regime of a clique of venal traitors. It is obvious that the main reason for the tension in Korea is the presence of South Korea of aggressive forces of the United States of America including the navy of the United States in the water as washing the shores of Korea. It is well known Mr. President that the numerous proposals put forward by peace loving states member states of the United Nations concerning their withdrawal from South Korea of all foreign armed forces were opposed by the United States of America and all those who supported.
The United States continuing and provocative and aggressive activities against the Korean people has also systematically opposed the adoption by the United Nations of decisions. Which would put an end to outside interference in the internal affairs of Korea. United States has ignored the numerous warnings of the Soviet Union and other peace loving countries. Concerning the dangerous and explosive nature of the Korean situation created by the occupation of the south of Korea by American and other foreign troops. Thus it is only.
Because of the position of the United States and those that support it that debt continues to be a hotbed of tension in that country threatening peace and security in this part of the world and an obstacle to the peaceful settlement of the Korean question. One can quite justifiably say that the United States is now reaping the fruits of its policy in the Korean question. Who is poisonous seeds. They showed for many years as on the soil of Korea and here in the United Nations. And no dramatic activities. All slanderous accusations against the Korean People's Democratic Republic such as the letter that is in front of you gentlemen. No other.
Maneuvers the American representative will enable the United States to misrepresent the actual facts. It is obvious that in the light of these facts the request for a meeting of the council is nothing but a maneuver of the United States in a most unworthy cause. This is an attempt. To shift responsibility for the continuing tension in Korea from those responsible to those who are guiltless. An attempt to conceal the continuing aggression of the United States in Korea. It is well-known that in this letter there is also a mention of the incident involving the American military ship Pueblo. But it is obvious that this question cannot and must not be debated in the Security Council. Indeed.
While the seizing of all the detention of a foreign ship has invaded the territorial waters of any state with hostile objectives and is the internal affairs of that state and a matter coming under its national jurisdiction. The attempt to draw the Security Council in consideration of the slanderous accusation of the United States of America against the Korean People's Democratic Republic of reducing tensions in the Korean Peninsula is likely to aggravate that tension and threaten the cause of peace and security in this part of the world. This is why the Soviet delegation asks the members of the Council to adopt an objective attitude and to reject the attempts of the United States of America.
Who is goal as already proved is to endeavor to use the Security Council to implement the unsavory imperialist plans of the United States in the Far East and namely in the Korean Peninsula. Thank you Mr. President. Mr. President as you said the Security Council is convenient. I thank the distinguished representative of the Soviet Union for his statement and for me having consecutive interpretation. The next speaker on my list is the distinguished representative of the United States. I miss you can you need it.
I thank you Mr. President. The distinguished delegate of the Soviet Union our colleague Ambassador Murphy has not yet heard the evidence I offer after the agenda is adopted as I am sure it will be in support of the letter I have submitted to the president of the council. If it is characteristic perhaps of the Soviet Union to pass judgement before hearing the evidence in Alice in Wonderland terms. Sentence first trial afterwards. Lovelock may be characteristic of Soviet justice is not the practice and tradition of this council president it is not overstating the facts to state that we have brought to the Council on an urgent basis a matter which affects the peace and security of an important area in the world.
We have sought an urgent meeting of the council. Because of our belief and conviction that if it is that all possible this situation should be dealt with and settled peacefully through diplomatic channels. Clearly the primary diplomatic channel. In the world today is the Security Council. The organ of this organization with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. We shall be quite content to have the council judge the merits of the situation after hearing about the situation. But whatever anyone's views are or may be about the merits of this situation it would be completely in comprehensible and I believe intolerable
by men of peace throughout the world. If this council were to shun its duty and to refuse to deal with this grave situation for this reason I consider it an imperative duty of this council to proceed promptly to consider the agenda item we have proposed. I thank you Mr. President and I waive consecutive interpretation. I thank to distinguish representative of the United States for his statement and call David. And second even capitation. I believe the distinguished representative of Hungary has asked to speak. John I'll give him the floor. So let me see that it opens up and does it in your pocket or something and I'll beat him I can surely be done. Thank you Mr. President. Do you not just his delegation has submitted a letter this morning
to you once but I got out yesterday evening which we received this morning and we hardly had enough time to read it carefully to analyze it and to make the necessary preparations for a careful examination. Not speaking about getting the proper instructions from our governments. We still are waiting for more informations on the problem. Do you distinguish the United States and the Genesee situation attention in that area of those around.
We recognize that there is tension and it seems that this tension is increasing day by day hour by hour and is mainly created originally and consistently by the United States. It is increasing to the level of hysteria already. Without going into the substance of the matter. I wish to mention that the violation of friendships of other countries is becoming already a consistent policy of the United States. Therefore. Not too much surprised that another such occasion occurred and this time in North
Korea the letter also mentions tensions and problems in South Korea. If anyone is responsible in an international sense for the tension in South Korea learned it is no one else but the United States who occupies that country with many thousand troops and this is their year source of tensions. Now bringing this whole matter before the Security Council. Do United States seem to prefer a very old practice to share the responsibility we have to bear. Himself for his actions.
To share this responsibility with the United Nations use or think the name of our organization and of our council. But by bringing such aggressive acts before this concert and putting it before the distinguished members of the council in such a unilateral presentation as a letter 8 3 6 0 it only creates further misunderstanding. So the trouble and besides it costs a very heavy shadow over the Grk of our organization is not promoting peace corp strengthening the cause of international peace.
Younger indication is of the opinion that there is a peaceful settlement possible in Korea and I was very into goads and mainly it could be implemented. And achieved by vetoing the occupation forces of the United States in Korea and in other parts of the world and let the Korean people settle themselves their own affairs. The US is of the opinion that it is improper untimely to bring does not go before the council and is of the opinion that the tenor of this letter is debasing the dignity of this council and lacks
seriousness. Therefore my delegation is strongly objecting to debate on this item thus objecting to put it on the agenda of the Security Council. Thank you Mr. President. And understanding too conservative in your position. I tank the distinguished representative upon getting a final statement and for behaving consecutive interpretation. The next speaker on my list is the distinguished representative of Canada to whom I now give the floor. Don't you know you're going to that Mr. President the distinguished representative of the United States has requested an urgent meeting of the council to consider certain events in the Far East which of undoubtedly brought about say the least an increase of
tension in the area of career. I do not wish any more than the preceding speakers to enter into the substance of these developments at this point. I wish to recall why the Canadian delegation fully supports the request for the inscription this item on the agenda a response to the requests contained in document s 8 3 6 0. In doing so my delegation is conscious of the heavy responsibility which the Security Council was meant to exercise and should exercise when problems arise. A rate relating to the maintenance of international peace and security. This after all is the purport of the council's responsibility as defined under Article 24 of the charter. The issue as I see it at this moment is whether the council will take advantage of this opportunity to discharge its primary responsibility for the
maintenance of international peace and security in view of the Canadian delegation. The council should not hesitate to do so. And do whatever it can to deal with a dangerous situation brought to it by a member state. Indeed the fact that one of the major powers in the world should today be seeking the assistance of the United Nations in overcoming a difficult problem. Drool as the distinguished representing the United States said through diplomatic channels is surely something Mr. President that should be welcomed by the Security Council and by all the members of the song ization and whose name we thank my delegation therefore believe that the interests of peace the interests of a speedy and equitable solution. The council should quickly agree to take up this question and find some appropriate means of helping to result.
One way might be and I only suggest as indication why we should be seized with this is that it might be possible to arrange for an intermediary or intermediaries to exercise good offices in this manner. All I would say is that in the present mood of hostility in the area surely the council should lose no time in taking up the matter and bringing the healing touch of diplomacy to bear on the situation. Mr. President reference has been made to various aspects of the document as states 3 6 0. And I realize from the preceding statements that there will be disagreement as to the facts and of the background. But surely certainly as far as this delegation is concerned the information available to us so far indicates strongly that the blow was in international waters the time of its seizure. And in that event those responsible for that seizure assumed a very heavy responsibility in holding it forcibly. The ship together with his crew in Korea a clear violation of international law. But
one thing Mr. President is crystal clear. This event is a very unhappy omen for the future peace in the area. Unless steps are taken effectively equitably and promptly with the consequences. And in this spirit I believe that the council should proceed in the topping the agenda. And I thank the distinguished representative of Canada for his statement and for me having consecutive interpretation. I have ignored the speakers on my list the distinguished representative of the United Kingdom and you can I can tell you when you leave. Thank you. Mr. President. The question we have to decide is whether the council has to consider and
deal with the serious situation which has been brought to our attention. We are not yet dealing with the substance of the situation. In my statement I should never limit myself strictly to the question of inscription of this item and the adoption of the agenda Article 1 Chapter 1 of the United Nations charter. The first purpose of our organization has been to maintain international peace and security. Article 24 of the charter sub paragraph 1 said that the members of the United Nations confer on the Security Council primaries sponsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. Mr. President in this dangerous in many ways more dangerous than when the charter was written the members of the Security Council have an immense responsibility in the several issues of war and peace.
We have now before us a grave situation no one who has studied the facts can fail to seal blowing here. The chill wind of authentic danger the world man in the street does not have to be a brilliant diplomatist or military expert to see the obvious risks involved if this matter cannot be settled peacefully. Certainly it can be settled peacefully but you Chey this the Security Council must play its proper part. It will surely be inconceivable to the peoples of the world if this Security Council of United Nations does not urgently consider the question I put before it. Mr. President many of us here worked in the Security Council through the long hot summer of the Arab-Israel war. The dangerous consequences of which still remain an anxious burden on the world
when the situation which led to this war was building up. There was some talk of overdramatize a vision of the situation and reluctance to get down to what is our clearly defined primary job of tackling issues of international security. The result. I had my delegation believes the most serious consequences which will not easily be forgiven by world opinion. If we make the same mistake again. My delegation urges most strongly therefore that we not decide without further delay to adopt our agenda and to proceed at once to consider the question which has very properly been brought to our attention. I hope and believe we can reduce tensions and find a satisfactory solution to this issue in the just and peaceful manner required by the charter to do this we need cool heads
and good sense on all sides. But Mr. President we cannot afford to waste any time this is not a moment for procedural debate. Thank you Mr. President. And I wave in S.. I tank the distinguished representative of the United Kingdom for his statement and for waiving consecutive interpretation. I now give the floor to the distinguished representative of the Soviet Union where you only need to look out of your office not on your side. What is the president since you said that there were no more speakers as I wanted to take this opportunity and make some additional remarks in response to the moment of the United's date's representative and that was that it was Britain and Canada who supported his position. That was until the United States continued
to complain about a situation dangerous to peace created allegedly as a result of activities of the government of the Korean People's Democratic Republic. And he seemed to gloss over. One could have thought that he never had all that he knows nothing about the history of this whole problem. And yet as I had occasion to say rather fully today all this was created as a result of the aggression of the United States of America against the Korean People's Democratic Republic the occupation and the long occupation by the armed forces of the United States of the south of Korea
and the recent events. This provocative act the intrusion of an armed vessel of the United States in the territorial waters of the Korean People's Democratic Republic. Sufficient facts. Justified facts which deprive the representative of the United States of any moral right. To seize the counsel of the matter in the way in which he has done it. In the letter he has addressed to you was the president dated the twenty fifth of January. And if there were any doubts concerning the true intentions. Behind this
letter. The representative of the United States was rather helpful. To those who and any doubts are illusions. This is why the Soviet delegation and the president. Continue to oppose. The scripture and the agenda of the suggest by the United States of America. And this is why we should vote against. The inscription of this item on the agenda. Thank you Mr. President. I thank the distinguished representative of the Soviet Union for his statement and for living consecutive interpretation.
I have no other speakers on my list. On the question of the adoption of the agenda. As objections have been raised to the adoption of the agenda contained in document S C agenda one by the distinguished representatives of the Soviet Union and Hungary the council will now proceed to take a vote on the adoption of the agenda. Like its going to come. Or did it is object I'll call it a hundred percent. But not with usual.
Those in favor please raise their hands. Against abstentions. The result of the vote is as follows. Votes in favor against three abstentions none is adopted but you know I think that is could also not to do with a.
Distinguished representative of India has asked for the floor to explain his more. But it wasn't on the land. We need to present. Just a very brief word to explain my delegation which was in support of the adoption of the document. A lot of my delegation should normally be construed to amount to the agreement or support for the contents of the letter of the permanent representative of the United States. The letter contained in document 86 so they voted my delegation on this clear understanding is completely in accordance with the established practice of the council. Thank you Mr. President and of conservative. I thank the distinguished representative of India for consecutive
interpretation. I now give the floor to the distinguished representative up front in all of us. Mr. President I merely wish to explain the vote that the French delegation has just cost in a few words. A particularly serious situation has broken out in the Far East and the attention of the world is focused upon it. We have been asked to study this matter in the Security Council in accordance with the traditional policy of my government. My delegation agreed that the matter be studied here. This however without passing on the substance of the matter no espousing the views that have been expressed by anyone no the representative of the United States for example who's letter was circulated. We feel that the debate. Well allow each state each party to express its
views. And it is along those lines that we voted for the inclusion of the item on the agenda. Thank you Mr. President. And I waive my right to consecutive interpretation. I thank the distinguished representative of France for his statement and for leaving consecutive interpretation. I give the floor to the distinguished representative of Algeria. You only see with it as I look at the look I listed off as I thought and I get it. Thank you Mr. President. Mr. President the Algerian delegation would like very briefly to explain the negative vote we cast on the adoption of the agenda as put to us.
My delegation felt in fact that the attitude that can be derived from reading the letter S 8 3 6 0 lacked clarity somewhat and I believe. That I can speak of the feeling that we have gathered in the council. By stating that we have very little information regarding the events that really took place in the Gulf. One son Furthermore only one side of the facts have been put to us and nothing leads us to believe
that they are not surrounded by a certain partiality or at least a passion. Hardly in keeping with the statement of the truth. Furthermore we felt that we could see a certain either willing or unwitting and dramatization of the situation that seemed to want to hasten the work that the council should be undertaking or calm and serenity and for all these reasons we felt it was our duty not to add our boys to those that supported the adoption of the agenda. Then to set up a boat can also be explained
by the fact that the adoption of the agenda whether we want to or not implies a certain orientation of the work such that lacking sufficient information with which to judge we feel would not be in keeping with the feelings of equity and impartiality that I'm sure in all delegations. We know that the usage of the council dictate that the agenda be adopted as it has been adopted however. An almost complete ignorance of the facts or a somewhat doubtful statement of those facts were an additional factor which.
We took into account and which led my delegation to vote against the adoption of the agenda. Algeria is nearly come to this council we nevertheless feel that in case of emergency. The agenda is communicated by the secretary general. Together with the request for a meeting and this in the cases of urgency and as I refer to Article 8 of the rules of procedure rule 8 of the rules of procedure. For them all along the same line of reasoning it might not have been un useless if the first information that came to light. In the secretary that could have been submitted to us by the secretary and I'm still referring to the rules of procedure in this case. Rule 22.
And yet we know that these two last elements would could not be taken into account all followed in a matter that had been stretched over a number of years. And that's the item as included in today's agenda. Is obviously linked to a much wider question which as we all know has shaken the organization very seriously. We are convinced that the road chosen regardless of the SU can lead to an aggravation of the situation which according to all the official declarations recently heard which as I say is already tense enough. Mr. President it is not with a feeling of deep pain and anxiety that we were
led to take such a decision. Phantom are the explanations of vote that we've heard in the council after the vote seem if it were necessary to confirm the conviction that I have just spoken. Thank you Mr. President and I waive consecutive interpretation. I thank the distinguished representative of Algeria for his statement and for waiving his right of consecutive interpretation. Speaking as the representative of Pakistan I wish to state that my affirmative vote on the adoption of the agenda does in no way prejudge the position of my government on the contents of the letter of the permanent representative of the United States in document S. It's 3 6 0 0 0
voters without prejudice to the position of principal of which my delegation has always taken on such questions. What must be construed to have been purely procedural. It does not in any way deflect our judgement on the matters of substance raised in the letter. I waved my right of consecutive interpretation. The council will now begin its discussion of the question. The first speaker inscribed is the representative of the United States. But before I give him the floor I would like to say I feel that. As we meet in the council today I am sure that all the members around this table are mindful of the extraordinary nature of the situation which has prompted the request
for this meeting. It is clear that situations of this character which involve one or more of the permanent members throw into sharp relief the heavy responsibilities of the United Nations. But as we are conscious of our limitations we are equally have verified responsibilities. Perhaps the chief responsibility that rests on us and wish to Counsel is fully capable of discharging is to inject the elements of moderation and restraint into situations of this character. As far as the nonpermanent members are concerned they are armed with only their integrity and their judgement. Nevertheless they can help in preventing angry confrontations
that might tear the fabric of peace. With all humility I would appeal to all powers to heed the voice of an anxious humanity. Outside these doors in all the continents which employs us to be considerate of difficulties objective in our judgment and measured in our speech. No minimum new settlement not gonna say like I'm not going to join the fun we have a lot of us out on this it as unique mess I'm on that we've done a lot more you know very nice don't you see. Locals say to security they will judge me by my mother but you can say so hard core X party name that I CPS feel kept a look a like amount of a union to support say situations you really
would approve. Get mad or you can say responsibility to pray for them are they nice you if you look at the silly meat as you may see if they get a lot of step response to the person they don't look or say except in mock up of the psyche seat that doesn't suit us you want to search on. Note that my knowledge of course they do say could he take a knock knock on the cell and I think if they ate up a shade in front that's your dollar in my nice dark dug out alive what did you many day Doc know that they have it on the toys who smell it I'm a device you don't know about. I now give the floor to the distinguished representative of the United States.
I thank you Mr. President. The United States has requested this meeting. As I stated in my letter to you Mr. President of yesterday to consider the grave threat to peace which the authorities of North Korea have brought about by their increasingly dangerous and aggressive military actions in violation of the Korean armistice agreement of 1953 of the United Nations charter and of international law. We have asked that the council be convened urgently at an hour when peace is in serious and imminent danger when fer him and forthwith action is required to avert that danger and preserve peace. A virtually vessel of the United States Navy sailing on the high seas has been wantonly and
lawlessly seized by armed North Korean patrol boats and her crew forcibly detained. This warlike action carries a danger to peace which should be obvious to all. A party of armed raiders infiltrated from North Korea has been intercepted in the act of invading the South Korean capital city of Sunil with the admittedly assignment of assassinating the president of the Republic of Korea. And this event marks the climax of a campaign by the North Korean authorities. Over the past 18 months of steadily growing infiltration sabotage and terrorism in flagrant violation of the Korean armistice agreement. Mr. President these two lions of action are manifestly parallel both stem from North Korea. Both are completely
unwarranted and unjustified. Both are aimed against peace and security in Korea both violate the United Nations Charter solemn international agreements and time honored international law and both pose a grave threat to peace in a country whose long search for peace and reunification in freedom has been an historic concern to the United Nations and to my country. We bring these grave developments to the attention of the Security Council. In the sincere hope that the council will act promptly to remove the danger to international peace and security. For Mr President it must be removed and without delay. And it will be removed only if action is taken forthwith. To secure the release. The USS Pueblo and its 83 man
crew and to bring to an IOM the pattern of transgression by North Korea against the Republic of Korea. My government has stated at the highest level our earnest desire to settle this matter promptly and peacefully and if at all possible by diplomatic means. It is testimony to this desire that in fidelity to the charter my government has brought this matter to the Security Council which has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and which together with other organs of the UN as a special and historic concern for peace and security in Korea. It is imperative therefore that the Security Council act with the greatest urgency and decisiveness the existing
the existing situation cannot be allowed to stand. It must be corrected. And the council must face up to its responsibility to see it correct this course is far more preferable to other remedies which the charter preserves to member states. Let me now turn to the facts concerning these two aspects of North Korean aggressive conduct on which the Council's action is urgently required. At 12:00 noon on Jan. 23 Korean time the United States ship will Ablow manned by a crew of six officers. Seventy five enlisted man and two civilians and sailing in international waters off the North Korean cause was confronted by a heavily armed North Korean patrol boat.
Identified as a submarine chaser number 35. The strict instructions under which the pole level was operating required it to stay at least 30 nautical miles from the North Korean coast. While my country adheres to the three mile rule of international law concerning territorial waters Nevertheless the ship was under orders whose effect was to stay well clear of the 12 mile limit which the North Korean authorities have by long practice followed. The US who have reported this encounter and its location at the time in the following words and I was to quote exactly what was reported by radio at the time of the encounter. And this is the quote. USS Pueblo encountered one esle one Esso dash one
class North Korean patrol at 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 unquote. That is at 12:00 noon. Korean time. And then quote and I'm repeating it's broadcast position thirty nine dash 25. Period 2 a.m. 1 2 7 dash 55 period. O e d i w o unquote. I might explain that the IWM means dead in water. The standard Navy terminology meaning that all engines are stopped and the vessel was stationary. Now with your permission Mr. President Mr. President I should like to refer to this map provided for the convenience of the council and shows the exact location of the full oblong as
given in these coordinates. If the members of the council will look at the map. You will see a number three. Number three is approximately 25 nautical miles from the port of one son. It is sixteen point three nautical miles from the nearest point of the North Korean mainland on the peninsula of Hendo. This is the peninsula. And fifty point three nautical miles from the island though. And that is the yacht.
How at Exactly. The same time. The North Korean submarine chaser. Number 35. Which intercepted the pueblo reported its own little cation yapped. I read in the number three read and this is a report now from the North Korean submarine chaser. Number 35 monitored by us. And that location was thirty nine degrees 25 minutes north. And 1 2 7 degrees 5 6 minutes east. You know the position. In other words these two reported positions are within a mile of one another.
And show conclusively that according to the North Korean report as well as our own. That was in international waters. The report. Of its location by the North Korean craft made by International Morse code was found 10 minutes later by the following message. From the North Korean craft. We have to base and I quote it we have approached the target here. The name of the target is our 1 dash 2. Now. We talk about the polemical and that is the name
by which the ship is of course no. But the technical name for this ship. Was G ard too and this name was painted on the side of the ship and the message continued. And I again quote the car in radio message in international Morse code in its words in korean words. Get it g r one too. Did you get it. So all are controlled are are controlled target is one too. I will send it again. Our controlled target is our 1 dash to the end of quote. Thank you.
In as much as the location of the people who have lived there is of course a matter of vital importance. It is important to the council to know that the information available to the United States. As reported by our vessel to our authorities and to the North Korean authorities as reported by its vessel and as transmitted by its own ship was virtually identical. There is only this small margin of difference and interesting Lee enough. The North Korean ship reported the level to be about a mile farther away from the shore line. Then the United States fix of its position. That distances between the blue and the red is about a mile.
So you see according to the North Korean report broadcast monitor. It was reporting what I have stated to this council. Mr. President. We have numerous other reports during this encounter. Consistent with the location I have described. And information other than coordinates corroborative what I have said is by voice monitor the information on coordinates as I said was by international Morse code. The North Korean patrol having made its approach
used the international flag signals to request the nationality of the pro-level replying with the same signal system identified herself as a United States vessel. The North Korean vessel then signaled and I quote the signal heave to or I will open fire. I knew the boy ABOL replied and I quote it. I am in international waters. This reply was not challenge by the North Korean vessel which under international law if there had been an intrusion which there was not should've this quarter the vessel from the area in which it was. However that vessel then proceeded for approximately an
hour to circle the pole Ablow which maintained its course and kept its distance from the shore. At that point three additional North Korean armed vessels appeared one of which awarded the political. And I quote the order follow in my wake. And as this order was issued for our North Korean vessels closed in on the full level and surrounded it at the same time to make aircraft appeared overhead and circled the poor the poor having all attempted peacefully to withdraw from this encircled but was forcibly prevented from doing so and brought to a dead stop. It was then seized by an armed boarding party and forced into the North Korean port. Now reports from the North Korean naval
vessels on their location and their seizure of the pool have long at this point show that the people haven't was constantly in international waters at 150 Korean time. Within a few minutes of the reported boarding of the poor. North Korean vessels reported their position within a few minutes after boarding. Add 3 9 2 3 9 1 2 8 2 3 or about twenty one point three miles from the nearest Northern Korean land. This is the point on the map here. Right here. And we would be very glad Mr. President to make this map available for the records of the Security Council.
Yeah. OK. Now Mr. President I want to lay the rest completely to rest some intimations that they will have LOL. Yeah I had intruded upon the territorial waters and was sailing away from territorial waters and that the North Korean ships were in hot pursuit. This is not the case a tall and I shall demonstrated by this man. Thank you. Now we will show times and the course of the vessel exactly what occurred
and you will see from this that the location of the Polevoy was constantly far away from Korean shores always away from the 12 mile limit until it was taken to the sun by the North Koreans. The locations of the level are shown in the time and the location of the dash 1 0 3 5. The first Northern Korean vessel on the red line. Now the poor have far from having SEO. From inside her waters outside water. I. Was cruising in an area in this area and this will be demonstrated by the time sequence. When I say this area I mean the area there
and stuff. Any approach to the problem I live in a 3 0 0 8 3 0 a.m. local time was at the location. I now point to on the map. It had come to that point from the south east. Below here not anywhere in this vicinity. And that is point one on that. So that our record will be complete. Point two on the map shows the position of the North Korean submarine chaser. Number 35 as reported by her at 10 5 5. And you will see that
she is close to the North Korean vessel not the problem. There's a five twelve mile limit right there that Point number two point number three is the position reported by the Pueblo at 12 o'clock noon. Right there. And you'll see that he has a considerable distance from the 12 mile limit which is the black dotted line. Red morning. Number three there's a position reported by the North Korean submarine submarine chaser number 35. That 12 o'clock when it signaled the level of the stuff. That's and that's in this.
Then in other words that line up and there is the point this is the position of the North Korean vessel. This is the position of the playbook and the position of the North Korean vessel that I point to the red light is a position reported off of Lake by the North Korean vessel very little difference in these two reports. Then point number four is the position reported. By the North Korean vessel that 13 50 1 5 0 0 0 here when she reported warning the public. And you will recall that I just told the council. That people ever seeking to escape the encirclement it did not move in the
direction or did not transgressed my love. How all of this all of this is verified not by reports only from the WHO have. All of this is verified. By reports from the North Korean vessel which were monitored now. And I think it is a very clear picture of exactly what transpired. Mr President. And here too Mr. President with your permission we will make this as they have. Mr. President it is in kind of vertical for this type of evidence. Which is physical evidence of international Morse code signals and voice
reports that the role when first approached and when cedes was in international waters. Well beyond the 12 mile limits. And laugh the North Koreans knew this. Further compounding this offense against international law and the gravity of this warlike act. Is the fact that the North Koreans clearly intended. To capture the full level knowing that it was injured in international waters and force it to sail into the port of one son. This aim is made clear by messages exchanged among the North Korean vessels themselves which we monitored including the following.
And I quote what was said in their voice broadcast to each other. I like talking this way. It will be enough to understand according to President Instructions We will close down the radio tie up the personnel. Tell it. And hand her port that line son. At present we are on our way to boarding. We are coming in. This is a exact voice broadcast from the ship which acknowledges the instructions that it was followed. Now Mr. President in light of this this was no mere incident. No case of mistaken identity. No case of mistaken location. It was nothing less than a
deliberate premeditated armed attack on a United States naval vessel on the high seas. An attack whose gravity is underlined by these simple facts which I should now like to sum up the location of the pool in international waters was fully known to the North Korean authorities. Since it broadcasts were not only between its own ships but were directed to a shore installation. The Pueblo is so lightly armed that the North Koreans in one of the conversations which we have monitored even reported as unarmed. The political. Was therefore in no position to engage in a hostile warlike act towards a territorial or vessels of North Korea and the North Koreans knew
this. Nevertheless the boy. Clearly on the high seas was forcibly stop boarded and seized by North Korean armed vessel. And this is a knowing and willful aggressive back part of a deliberate series of actions in contravention of international law. And of solemn international arrangements designed to keep peace in the area which apply not only to land forces but to naval forces as well. It is an action which no member of the United Nations could tolerate. I might add in light of the comments of the distinguished Soviet representative on the adoption of the agenda that Soviet ships engaged in exactly the same activities as the sale much closer to the shores of other states and one such Soviet ship right now is to be
found in the Sea of Japan and currently is not far from the South Korean shore. I turn now to the other grave category of aggressive actions taken by the North Korean authorities. Their systematic campaign of infiltration sabotage and terrorism across the armistice demarcation line in gross violation of the armistice agreement not only in the vicinity of the demilitarized zone but also in many cases deep in the territory of the Republic of Korea culminating in the recent raid against the capital city of still the presidential palace and the person of the president of the republic. The gravity of this campaign has already been made known to the Security Council
last November 2nd I conveyed to the council a report from the United Nations command in Korea summing up the evidence of a drastic increase in violations by North Korea of the Korean Armistice Agreement and subsequent agreements pertaining there to this report Security Council document S stroke 8 2 1 7 noted that the number of incidents involving armed infiltrators from North Korea had increased from fifty one thousand sixty six to five hundred forty three in the first 10 months of 1967 and that the number of soldiers and civilians killed by these infiltrators had increased from 35 in 1966 to one hundred forty four in the same period of 1967. A further report of the United Nations command for the whole year 1967 been filed today and it shows
a total of five hundred sixty six incidents for 1967 and a total of one hundred fifty three individuals killed by norther Korean infiltrate and the United Nations command in its report has further pointed out that although North Korea has refused all requests by the United Nations command for investigation of these incidents by joint observer teams pursuant to the armistice agreement the evidence that the attacks have been mounted from North Korea is incontestable. And this evidence is subject to verification by these reports which are on file with the Security Council. The target is the terroristic campaign Mr. President has now reached a new level of outrage. Last Sunday January 21 security forces of the Republic of Korea encountered a group of some 30 armed North
Koreans near the presidential palace in seul. In a series of engagements both in civil. And between the de-militarized zone lasting through January 24. About half of this group were killed and two captured. It has now been ascertained that the infiltration total 31 agents all with the rank of lieutenant or higher dispatch from the hundred twenty fourth North Korean army unit that these agents had received two years training including two weeks of specialized training for the present mission in special camps established in North Korea for this purpose and that their assigned mission included the assassination of the president of the Republic of Korea. I might add Mr. President that the North Korean authorities make no secret of their political strategy and motivation behind these attacks.
Their daily propaganda vilifies the government of the Republic of Korea and denies its very right to exist. And yet Mr. President this same government of the Republic of Korea is recognized by 77 governments is a member of numerous specialized agencies of the United Nations and enjoys observer status at the United Nations head. Mr. President it is obvious that this long series of attacks by North Korean infiltrators again across the demilitarized zone and by other groups of North Korean armed personnel who travel by sea have penetrated even into the southern portions of South Korea and they have the Temple of these attacks steadily increase in its scope until it threatens to undermine the whole structure of the armistice regime under which peace is been
preserved in a divided Korea for 14 years. In the interests of international peace and security this deterioration cannot be allowed to continue. It must be reversed promptly. The armistice agreements must be restored to their full vigor and the weight and influence of the Security Council must be exerted to this vitally important and. President these are the facts of the threat to peace created by North Korea's aggressive actions on sea and land. And with all the earnestness that I can command I asked the Security Council to act firmly and swiftly to rectify this dangerous situation and eliminate this threat to peace. Despite the most serious provocation. A provocation which every nation would recognize to be serious and dangerous. My government is
exercising great restraint in the manner we seek to give the processes of peaceful action all possible scope. We believe those processes can work swiftly and effectively. If the international community and primarily the members of this council individually and collectively so will. But Mr. President these peaceful processes must work. The present situation is not acceptable and it cannot be allowed to drift. This great and potent organization of peace must not be left the cause of peace and glory of the lost. By default. To the high handed tactics of the lawless regime such a course would be an invitation to catastrophe. Therefore let the Security Council with its great influence promptly and effectively help to
secure forthwith the safe return of the Pueblo and her group and are restored to full vigor and effectiveness. The Korean Armistice agreed fellow members of the Security Council. We have a clear and urgent responsibility under the charter to help keep the peace. I trust the council will discharge this responsibility. I thank you Mr. President. And I waive consecutive interpretation. I thank the distinguished representative of the United States by statement in full waiving consecutive interpretation. The next speaker on my list is the distinguished representative of the Soviet Union. I mean you know we're not going to be just like Mr. President.
The United States despite the well-founded objections of several members of the council. Imposed on the Security Council consideration of its complaint. Against the Korean People's Democratic Republic. The Soviet delegation at the beginning of this meeting has had occasion to draw attention to the completely and founded nature of accusations leveled by the United States against the Korean People's Democratic Republic. We stressed. That the aggressor in Korea is not the Korean People's Democratic Republic but rather those who
invaded the soil of the Korean people. Those are from many years of occupied the south of Korea. Those as drive by force to impose upon the Korean people a regime not to its liking. We noted that the request of the United States for a convening of the council was nothing but a maneuver and attempt to distort the facts and to conceal the illegal and hostile acts and the aggression which has continued for many years the aggression of the United States of America against the Korean people. We listened attentively to the statement of the zens of the United States.
And we declare that that statement itself is a new bait and proof of the correctness. Of the duration of the situation given by the Soviet Union when there was a debate on the adoption of the agenda. Now we would like. False and in the most categorical distress. That we cannot forget the concrete conditions in which the United States of America and it took. This obvious propagand mystic maneuver in connection with the convening of the council. What are these conditions.
It was the president and I distinguished colleagues know full well that in recent days. In the United States of America a war psychosis has been building up. Threats come from Washington against the Korean People's Democratic Republic. Measures of mobilization taken in the United States the Navy and Air Force of the United States continue to threaten the Korean People's Democratic Republic. Can one construe this. AS. Testifying to these Insan desire of the United States to embark upon a path of
settlement of the Korean problem which would be in keeping with the desires and interests of the Korean people. Which would be in the interest of the maintenance of national peace and security in this part of the world. As it moves into the United States tried to convince us in his statement today. No all this shows even more clearly that the United States tries to use the Security Council for objectives which are not those that the Security Council which has primary responsibility for the international peace and security must discharge. We already said that no maneuvers
No lecture. With the assistance of exit eerie means such as those used by Ambassador Gold thus concealing himself and his British colleague and various maps and we'll come back to that. No such tricks. No such attempts. Will be to any avail. None of them will be able to delude the world public opinion. And the peace loving peoples of the world concerning the peace loving intentions and activities of the United States in the world including the Korean Peninsula. Nothing will help the United
States to divest itself from its responsibility for the dense and truly dangerous situation of peace. Which has existed for a long time in the Korean Peninsula because of the activities of the United States of America. The present aggravation of tension in Korea is a direct result of the aggressive acts undertaken by American and South Korean armed forces on land and on the sea against the Korean peoples Democratic Republic of the peoples of the Soviet Union. The government of the Soviet Union had to condemn as it always has.
Such acts of aggression. A continuing presence on the territory of South Korea of aggressive forces of the United States is the main source of tension in Korea. Not one single objective and impartial man whatever is opinions of you is will be able to deny this fact. These troops. The military activities of the occupiers in Korea day after day hour after give rise to the danger of a new war in the Far East. And in this connection.
The memorandum of the government of the Korean People's Democratic Republic is quite justified. I was quite justified in stating. When it was presented in October 1967 to the General Assembly that from 1966 and I quote. The most tense and acute situation the same as the armistice days has been created along the military line in Korea and that for over a year a very dangerous situation continue as to obtain which can lead to war at any time. And of course this was the a legitimate conclusion of the government of the Korean People's integrated Republic on the basis of an analysis of a large number of
facts which show present only a few of these facts. It is well known that money and not cation line in Korea on the 38 parallel there are systematic incidents and travels. Only since the conclusion of the mysterious July 1953 until September 1967 the American and South Korean troops have committed over 52000 violations of the demo line I repeat over 52000 violations. That time there were five hundred and sixty eight cases of artillery shelling of the Doge of the Korean People's Democratic Republic.
Over 30 attacks. Over 800 cases of intrusion of military vessels in the territorial waters of the DPRK over 700 over 800 cases of such intrusion of major vessels will revert to the ocean. The incident which took about three quarters of the time of the statement of the center of the United States. Now we wish to repeat for the third time that there have been over eight hundred cases of intrusion in the territorial waters of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. But of military vessels there were over 700 violations of the airspace of that country
by military planes of the occupiers of South Korea in 1967 alone. American troops. Engaged in a shelling of objectives of the territory of the Korean people republic that was five. It was in the previous 13 years as a conclusion of the armistice agreement. The data prove that American military provocations against the Korean People's Democratic Republic. In recent times are from abating. I have been on the increase month after month.
The government of the Korean People's Democratic Republic. Stresses. In this connection the following in its memorandum I quote As a result of such. Provocative activities of the American imperialist aggressor those the demilitarized zone established by the Armistice Agreement has in fact become a constant field of battle and of course they increase in the scope of military activities and of the American military clique against the Korean People's Democratic Republic. As a company and gentleman. A large scale measures to strengthen the South Korean army
is being equipped with modern weapons. A guided missile of the hawk Nike Hercules Nike Ajax. Being sent to South Korea. Dressed as supersonic planes and heavy tanks. And equipment and weapons in Korea. Increasing number of military airfields are being built South Korean ports being transformed into major naval bases. No need to go far to find an
example. The South Korean port of Ching Hai has been transformed into a naval base able to accommodate nuclear submarines and other military vessels of the 7th Fleet. What the American Masters of the South Korean puppets do not tell us is insolently and impudently led out by these traitors to the Korean the Korean people and these puppets of American imperialism in their statements they reveal the goals of these military preparations. We know the warmongering statements of
responsible people so-called ministers of the puppet regime in Seoul that the armistice agreement has been completely rendered completely null and void. All that South Korea will unhesitatingly start a war if need be. Is it not obvious that the presence of American troops in South Korea gives rise to this spirit of adventure of the South Korean military clique which behaves in an ever challenging and defiant manner rejecting all peace loving proposals of the government of the Korean People's Democratic Republic. Some people in South Korea.
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