Boris Yeltsin said he plans to visit the United States if he wins Wednesday's elections for the Russian republic presidency and that he has received an official invitation to go to South Korea.
The planned visits were a direct symbolic challenge to Soviet President Mikhail Gorba-chev, indicating that as the elected head of the vast Russian Federation Yeltsin plans to have his own foreign and economic ties with other nations.Yeltsin did not give a date for his planned trip to the United States, but a source at the Russian Information Agency said "probably the end of June."