MOSCOW URGES RESTRAINT ON PYONGYANG.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 68

One day after North Korea’s April 4 renunciation of the buffer zone provisions in the 43-year-old armistice ending the Korean War, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official called upon Pyongyang "to show restraint and not to allow things to be pushed to the edge." A Russian deputy foreign minister is scheduled to visit Pyongyang April 10-12. (Reuter, April 5)

Russian Inflation Rate Continues to be Low.