Vietnam and Mongolia Also Withdraw From Olympics. Philadelphia Inquirer. May 12, 1984 – A07 National. "Two more Communist countries dropped out of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics yesterday, but the head of the International Olympic Committee promised to "fight to the last minute" to bring the Soviet Union and its allies to the Games."
N. Korea Joins Olympic Boycott. Miami Herald. June 3, 1984. 'While North Korea became the 13th nation to join the Soviet Union in boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Soviet star Sergei Bubka Saturday shattered his week-old world record in the pole vault'.
