The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Alexei Kosygin said to-day [January 28] he was convinced the United States intelligence ship Pueblo violated North Korean territorial waters. He told foreign newsmen here [Hardwar] that the North Korean seizure of the vessel was an issue to be settled only by the two countries involved. Asked for his views on the incident, he first said: “I cannot add anything to what has been published”. Replying to an American correspondent who asked if the issue would be solved by the U.S. admitting the vessel was in North Korean territorial waters, Mr. Kosygin said: “Ask the Koreans – there has been an American intrusion of alien waters”. “When there is a violation by one country of the air space or territorial waters of another, the two countries must somehow solve that problem”, he said. “It is for them (U.S. and Korea) to find some way of solving this matter”. Mr. Kosygin was then asked if he was satisfied that there had been an American violation of Korean waters. “I am sure there was. There is no question about it”.
