TELEGRAM 066.812 from the Romanian Embassy in Pyongyang to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

TELEGRAM 066.812

To: the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (to comrade Deputy Foreign Minister Constantin Oancea; to comrade director Vasile Sandru)

From: the Romanian Embassy in Pyongyang

Date: August  7^th, 1978

To continue our telegram no. 066.808, we would like to inform you:

On the evening of August 2^nd, the Soviet Chargé d’affaires ad interim to the DPRK, B. K. Pimenov, was invited to a meeting at the headquarters of Nodong Sinmun newspaper with respect to the summary published in the August 1^st issue of that newspaper of the article ‘We must increase our vigilance and prepare for war’, taken from the 8^th issue of the Chinese magazine ‘The Red Flag.’ During the meeting, a deputy editor-in-chief explained that the inclusion of the aforementioned material by Nodong Sinmun was the result of a regrettable mistake committed by an editor of the Korean Central Telegraphic Agency; [the deputy editor-in-chief said] that the DPRK did not change in any way its position towards the USSR. He expressed his conviction that the Korean-Soviet friendship and cooperation will not suffer [from this incident]. The editor-in-chief apologized for the incident.

The aforementioned events were reported to V. Nany on August 5^th, by A. Belyi, the first secretary of the Soviet Embassy, on the occasion of a casual meeting.

Signed

Victor Nanu