Diplomatic letters from ROK to US in 1951
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[edit] Requests From Korea July 19, 1951
Washington, July 19, 1951.
- Your Excellency, I have the honor to present to Your Excellency, at the instruction of my Government, the following requests for the consideration of the Department of State with regard to the recent revised draft of the Japanese Peace Treaty.
1.My Government requests that the word “renounces” in Paragraph a, Article Number 2, should be replaced by “confirms that it renounced on August 9,1945, all right, title and claim to Korea and the islands which were part of Korea prior to its annexation by Japan, including the island Quelpart, Port Hamilton, Dagelet, Dokdo and Parangdo.”
2.As to Paragraph a, Article Number 4, in the proposed Japanese Peace Treaty, my Government wishes to point out that the provision in Paragraph a, Article 4, does not affect the legal transfer of vested properties in Korea to the Republic of Korea and the United States Military Government in Korea, of September 11, 1948.
3.With reference to Article 9, my Government wishes to insert the following at the end of Article 9 of the proposed Peace Treaty, “Pending the conclusion of such agreements existing realities such as the MacArthur Line will remain effect.”
- Please Accept
You Chan Yang
[edit] Requests From Korea August 2, 1951
August 2, 1951
Your Excellency,
I have the honor to refer Your Excellency to my communication to you for Jury 19, 1951 with reference to requests by the Korean Government for the consideration of the Department of State of certain suggestions in connection with the revised draft of the Japanese Peace Treaty.
Further instructions from my Government enable me to convey to Your Excellency the following suggestions with respect to the revised Treaty, looking towards their incorporation in the document:
1.Article 4: Japan renounces property of Japan and its nationals against Korea and its nationals on or before August nine, Nineteen hundred Forty-One.
Article 9: The MacArthur Line shall remain until such agreements be concluded.
Article 21: And Korea to the benefits of Articles 2,9,12, and 15-a of present Treaty.
Please accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.
YOU CHAN YANG
His Excellency
Dean G. Acheson
Secratary of State
Washington D C
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