could do to make the soviets take responsibility for what they had done. to the point where nearly a decade after the shoot-down, when boris yeltsin was the first post-soviet president of russia, the reaction to that shoot-down of that korean airliner was such that nearly a decade after it happened, the russians still had custody of the black boxes from that crash. they had never given into international pressure, to president reagan's pressure, or anybody else's pressure to turn the black boxes over so they could be part of an investigation into what happened. the russians kept those voice recorders and those data recorders from korean airlines flight 007. they kept them away from the world for nine years. until boris yeltsin decided in 1992 that one of the first things he was going to do as president of the new russia would be to try to right that wrong, to return those black boxes. so in november 1992, russian president boris yeltsin traveled to seoul, south korea in what he