EAST BERLIN, Dec. 14, Reuter: North Korea’s Ambassador to East Germany denied ‘on Monday his country was involved in the disappearance of a South Korean aircraft and said the plane had twice made emergency landings before its final flight.
‘The East German news agency and quoted Ambassador Pak Yong Chan as saying at a news conference that Pyongyang rejected charges it was behind the mysterious disappearance of a South Korean jet near the Thai-Burmese border on November 29.
“If South Korea is interested in an explanation it had better first examine its own responsibility, especially as the plane had already twice previously made emergency landings because of defective landing flaps”, it quoted him as saying.
No trace has yet been found of the plane, which was carrying 115 people ona flight from Baghdad to Seoul.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 18, 1987
