PUEBLO SITREP NO. 18 (AS OF 12 NOON EST)

Created: 1/29/1968

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5- Reported suggestions by nenbers of Kosygin mission in India for an exchange of the Pueblo crew for oaptured North Korean infiltrators prompted Seoul papers to put out extras onanuary. Press reaction was universally adverse, reflecting comments of South Korean officials that the proposal was "inconceivable" or "not worth considering.M

6. Tho Korth Koroan official who yesterday told reporters in Damascus that Pyongyang would "severely punish" tho Pueblo crows Kang Yang-uk vice-president ot tbe Supreme People's.Assembly presidium

delegations abroad, anH in the past two years has twice visited the Middle East-Arrican area.

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