Podgorny Going To North Korea
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MOSCOW, May 11.
The President of the Soviet Union (Mr Nikolai Podgorny) is expected to fly to Pyongyang soon to begin a State visit to North Korea.
The visit will be the first by a Russian statesman to North Korea (which borders China and once strongly supported that country in the
ideological dispute with the Soviet Union) since the First Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Dmitry Polyansky) went there last September. President Podgorny will go on to Ulan Bator, capital of the Mongolian People’s Republic, a huge under-popu-lated country which shares long borders with both the Soviet Union and China but for years has been firmly in the Soviet camp. The visit to North Korea is attracting great interest in Moscow; it appears to be part, of intense Soviet diplomatic probing round the perimeters of China after the border fighting between the two countries in March. Last week the Soviet Prime Minister (Mr Alexei Kosygin) visited India, another country which is having border troubles with, China.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31985, 12 May 1969, Page 13
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