No.SN-910108
DATE. 141850

14 JANUARY 1958

SENT TO. NYKORSUL NEWYORK
PLEASE TRANSMIT FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION AND LETTER AMBASSADOR LIMB QUOTE YOU ARE ADVISED CALL PERSONALLY ON ME LUCE WITH CRAEKYUNG OHS LETTER AND DRAW HIS ATTENTION VERY DISTORTED INCORRECT ARTICLE PD DEEPLY DISTURBED BY SUCH REPORTING ALSO THAT HEAD OFFICE WOULD PRINT WITHOUT CHECKING PAXIS PD IF OCCASION AND ATMOSPHERE PERMITS SUGGEST INVESTIGATION AS TO WRITER AS THERE IS STRONG SUSPICION IT WAS WRITTER BY A JAPANESE REPORTER EMPLOYED TOKYO BUREAU PD OUR TOKYO REPRESENTATIVE ASSURED US TIME OFFICE TOKYO HAD RECORD ON FILE ALL CORRECT INFORMATION PD LETTER READS AS FOLLOWS QUOTE MR HENRY R LUCE EDITOR IN CHIEF TIME PD DEAR MR LUCE COLON THE ARTICLE TITLED THE PAWNS ON PAGE TWENTYTHREE OF THE JANUARY THIRTEEN ISSUE OF TIME PACIFIC EDITION CONTAINS MANY MISSTATEMENTS OF FACT AND IS EXTREMELY UNFAIR TO KOREA PARA POINT BY POINT THESE DISTORTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS COLON ONE THAT JAPANESE FISHERMEN IMPRISONED AT PUSAN WERE QUOTE PAWNS IN A DIPLOMATIC STALEMATE CREATED ENTIRELY BY UNQUOTE PRESIDENT SYNGMAN RHEES HATRED OF JAPAN PD THE STALEMATE WAS CREATED BY JAPAN COM NUT KOREA PD ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS
DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS COM KOREAN DIPLOMATS REACHED AGREEMENT WITH THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT FOR THE MUTUAL RELEASE OF THE JAPANESE FISHERMEN AND KOREANS HELD IN JAPAN PD BUT JAPANESE MINISTRIES DISAGREED AMONG THEMSELVES COM AND NEITHER OF THE AGREEMENTS WAS CARRIED OUT PD TWO THAT KOREA HAS DEMANDED REPARATIONS FROM JAPAN COM INCLUDING FORTY YEARS BACK PAY FOR KOREAN WORKERS WHO WERE EXPLOITED DURING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION PERIOD PD KOREA HAS NOT YET ASKED FOR REPARATIONS ONLY FOR RESTORATION OF STOLEN GOLD RESERVE COM ART TREASURES COM SHIPPING COM AND SO ON PD THREE THAT PRESIDENT RHEE ARBITRARILY ESTABLISHED A FISHING DEMARCATION LINE THAT EXTENDS KOREAN SOVEREIGNTY TO A MINIMUM(OF SIXTY MILES OFFSHORE PD APPROXIMATELY THE SAME LINE WAS FIRST DRAWN BY GEN DOLMAS MACARTHUR TO KEEP THE PEACE RETAKEN KOREA AND JAPAN COM AND THEN WAS RENEWED BY GEN MARE CLARK PD KOREA SUBSEQUENTLY ACCEPTED THIS LINE TO PREVENT KOREA DASH JAPAN FRICTION COW TO PRESERVE MARINE RESOURCES COM AND TO PREVENT THE INFILTRATION OF SMUGGLERS AND COMMUNIST AGENTS PD THE PEACE LINE HAS NEVER BEEN AN ASSERTION OF SOVEREIGNTY COM AND THE RIGHT OF INNOCENT PASSAGE HAS BEEN FULLY PROTESTED IN THESE WATERS PD
ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT IS THAT WHEN KOREA PROPOSED THE NEGOTIATION OF A FISHERIES AGREEMENT COM JAPAN DECLINED COM STATING THAT IT WOULD FISH WERE AND WHEN IT PLEASED PD FOUR THAT THE JAPANESE INCARCERATION OF KOREANS WAS A MEASURE WHICH FOLLOWED PROMULGATION OF THE PEACE LINE PD JAPAN HAS BEEN JAILING KOREANS DASH MOST OF THEM WITHOUT CHARGE COM WITHOUT TRIAL COM AND WITHOUT SENTENCE DASH OVER A PERIOD OF MANY YEARS PD ORIGINALLY THERE WAS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE FISHERMEN DETAINED AT PUSAN AND THE KOREANS HELD AT OMURA AND HAMAMATSU PD BUT WHEN JAPAN CONTINUED TO IGNORE KOREAN PROTESTS AGAINST THE CONTINUED ILLEGAL DETENTIONS IN THAT COUNTRY COM IT WAS NECESSARY TO TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTINUE THE REPATRIATION OF JAPANESE FISHERMEN AND THUS BRING PRESSURE UPON THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OUR OWN NATIONALS PD DURING THIS PERIOD COM SICK AND INFIRM JAPANESE WERE STILL REPATRIATED COM ALTHOUGH THE JAPANESE RELEASED NONE OF OUR PEOPLE AND MANY OF THEM DIED UNDER PRISON CONDITIONS WHICH WERE DENOUNCED BY AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS PD THE SAME COMMITTEE GAVE THE PUSAN CAMP A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH PD FIVE THAT THE KOREAN DELEGATION TO THE THIRD KOREA DASH JAPAN CONFERENCE OF OCTOBER COM 1953 COM QUOTE WALKED OUT IN A HUFF UNQUOTE BECAUSE JAPAN CLAIMED THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION WAS BENEFICIAL TO KOREA PD THIS WAS AN INSULT COM CERTAINLY COM BUT NOT THE PRINCIPAL REASON FOR FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE PD IN THE SAME STATEMENT COM THE JAPANESE CHIEF DELEGATE COM KANICHIRO KUBOTA COM ALSO DENIED THAT AUTHORITY OF THE CAIRO DECLARATION AND KAINTAINED THAT THE CREATION OF AN INDENDENT AND SOVERIENG KOREA WAS A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW COM THUS LAYING THE BASIS FOR A CLAIM OF JAPANESE RESIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY PD KUBOTA ALSO RENEWED JAPANS CLAIMS TO EIGHTYFIVE PERCENT OF KOREAN PROPERTY PD SIX THAT KOREA QUOTE SEIZED UNQUOTE PROPRTIES FROM JAPAN AFTER LIBERATION PD WHEN THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED IN AUGUST OF 1945 COM AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT TOOK OVER TITLE TO ALL JAPANESE DASH HELD PROPERTY DASH MOST OF WHICH HAD BEEN CONFISCATED OR STOLEN FROM KOREANS DASH IN KOREA PD THIS ACTION WAS SET FORTH IN A SERIES OF ORDINANCES WHICH WERE ACCEPTED BY THAT COUNTRY WHEN IT SIGNED THE SAN FRANCISCO PEACE TREATY PD MEANWHILE COM AMG HAD RELINQUISHED THE TITLES TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA UPON ITS ESTABLIBMENT IN 1948 COM AID MOST OF THE TEE PROPERTY HAS SINCE BEEN RETURNED TO THE ORIGINAL OWNERS OR SOLD TO THE HIGHEST B▣...▣DEHS PD SEVEN THAT THE UNITED STATES QUOTE WARNED UNQUOTE PRESIDENT RHEE THAT IT WOULD NOT SUPPORT HIM IN QUOTE UNREASONABLE QUOTE CLAIMS AGAINST JAPAN PD THE UNITED STATES HAS ALWAYS REGARDED THE KUBOTA STATEMENT AND JAPANS PROPERTY CLAIMS AS ILLEGAL COM AND HAS ON MANY OCCASIONS TOLD JAPAN THAT THEY SHOULD BE WITHDRAW PD EIGHT THAT KOREA AGREED TO THE NUTUAL REASE OF DETAINEES BECAUSE OF AN IMPLIED JAPANESE PROMISE OF ECONOMIC AID PD THIS COUNTRY WANTS THAT JAPAN OWES IT AND NOTHING MORE PD IT HAS NEVER WANTED AND HAS NEVER SOUGHT ECONOMIC AID FROM THE JAPANESE PD NINE THAT KOREA KEPT THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER WAITING FOR TWELVE HOURSE PD THIS A SNIDE REMARK THAT SCARCELY DESERVES AN ANSWER PD IT MAKES NO SENSE TO PRESUME THAT ANY FOREIGN MINISTER WOULD WAIT FOR SUCH A PERIOD PD PARA IN SUMMARY IT SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED THAT KOREA IS PLEASED THAT JAPAN HAS FINALLY AGREED TO RELEASE THE DETAINEES ON BASIS OF MUTUALITY PD THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEKING ALL ALONG PD AS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF THE PROPERTY CLAMS AND KUBOTA STATEMENT COM THEY DO NOT IN ANY WAY CONSTITUTE JAPANESE CONCESSIONS COM SINCE THEY HAD U▣TERLY TO BASIS OF LEGALITY IN THE FIRST PLACE PD PARA WHAT HAPPENS FROM NOW ON DEFENDES ENTIRELY UPOM THE SINCERITY OF JAPAN COM WHICH HAS STILL TO DEMONSRATE ANY MEMORSE FOR THE FORTY YEARS OF OCCUPATION OPPRESSION COM AND WHICH ALSO HAS STILL TO PROVE THAT IT STANDS WITH US AND THE FREE WORLD AGAINST THE COMMUNIST PD PARA TO READERS OF TIME COM IT MUST SEEM THAT IT IS JAPAN THAT HAS BEEN WRONGED COM NOT KOREA PD THIS EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE FROM A STANDPOINT OF AMERICAN UNDERSTANDING OF KOREA DASH JAPAN ISSUES AND THE GENERAL INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST PD KOREA AND KOREANS HOPE TEAT TINE WILL DO EVERY THING IT CAN TO SET TIE RECORD STRAIGHT PD SINCERITY COM CHAE KYUNG OH COM DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION SEOUL FORTYSEVEN

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