Japanese and Korean officials have expressed dissatisfaction with Russia's release of formerly top secret documents about the Soviet downing of a Korean passenger airliner in 1983.


"There was nothing in the information received that we did not already know", Reuters quoted a Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying Friday.


Korean officials also complained hat they had received only a transcript of the final minutes of radio communications from the plane, not the actual flight recorder known as the "black box".


President Boris Yeltsin last week released documents about the flight that killed 269 passengers.


A Japanese foreign ministry official also complained Friday that a Japan ese envoy had been excluded from the presentation.


"We thought it would be appropriate", spokesman Masamichi Hanabusa told The Associated Press. Twenty-eight Japanese died in the Sept. 1, 1983 disaster.


The main document in the package was a transcript of the final 30 minutes of flight 007's radio communications prepared from the black box.


For years, the Kremlin denied it had found the black box recording of flight data and cockpit conversations. In reality, it had been found Oct. 20, 1983 in the Sea of Japan, the documents said.