16 April 1978

The North Korean ship “Kuang Kim San” arrives in Cambodia, carrying 438,000 £ of steel products and tools. https://t.co/sVPbrJO3zB

Returning from a trip to China, Thai Premier Kriangsak said China declined to help solve Thailand’s border problems with Cambodia and he believes border clashes were instigated by Thai communists and not the Khmer Rouge

Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua tells his Swedish counterpart, who visited Beijing that China didn’t foresee that the Cambodian-Vietnamese border conflict would develop into a war and that it would not mediate a solution to the conflict: https://t.co/1jkdC5T0gH