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2月 25日
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No.MT-024
DATE. 02242200
TO. FOREIGN MINISTER, KYUNG MU DAI
THE NINTH MEETING OF THE KOREA-JAPAN WORKING COMMITTEE WAS HELD AT THE JAPANESE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THREE P.M. ON FEBRUARY TWENTY FOUR CMA ONE NINE FIVE EIGHT CMA AND THE MAIN POINTS THAT WERE DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING ARE AS FOLLOWS COLON
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WITH REGARD TO KOREAS ART OBJECTS CMA WE AGAIN PRESSED THE JAPANESE SIDE FOR PRESENTATION TO US OF THE LIST OF ALL KOREAN ART OBJECTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN PD THE JAPANESE SIDE REPLIED THAT OFFICIALS CONCERNED OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY HAVE BEEN IN IAIANSON WITH THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION PD THE JAPANESE SIDE CONTINUED THAT TODAY SOME RESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR CHECKING THE LIST OF ART OBJECTS STORED AT THE MUSEUM PD
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WITH REGARD TO THOSE KOREANS UNDER DETENTION ALLEGEDLY DESIRING TO GO TO NORTH KOREA CMA WE AGAIN PRESSED THE JAPANESE SIDE THAT IT SHOULD SEND ALL OF THEM TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA WITHOUT FAIL PD THE JAPANESE SIDE REPEATED WHAT THE JAPANESE HAVE TOLD US SO FAR PD IT ADDED THAT CMA IN ADDITION TO THOSE NINTY FIVE KOREANS IN QUESTION CMA ABOUT EIGHTEEN KOREAN DETAINEES NEWLY EX[RESSED THE SO HYPHEN CALLED DESIRE TO GO TO NORTH KOREA AFTER DECEMBER THIRTY ONE CMA ONE NINE FIVE SEVEN BUT THE JAPANESE SIDE IS PLANNING TO SEND THEM TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA FOR TESTING PURPOSES WHEN THE THIRD REPATRIATION IS MADE AND THAT THE JAPANESE SIDE IS CONTINUING TO PURSUADE THE NINTY FIVE KOREANS IN QUESTION TO CHANGE THEIR MIND PD
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THE JAPANESE SIDE WANTED TO KNOW WHEN THE REMAINING JAPANESE FISHERMEN WOULD BE REPATRIATED TO JAPAN AND WHEN THE SECOND GROUP OF KOREANS OF POSTWAR CATEGORY WOULD BE RECEIVED BY THE KOREAN SIDE PD THE JAPANESE SIDE THAT THEY WANTED TO KNOW THE SCHEDUL FOR THE REPATRIATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN THEIR EARNEST HOPE THAT THE REPATRIATION BE CARRIED OUT BY THE END OF FEBRUARY PD WE TOLD THE JAPANESE SIDE THAT THE REPATRIATION WOULD HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED MORE QUICKLY IF THE JAPANESE SIDE HAD PUT INTO PRACTICE WHAT IT PROMISED TO DO AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRELIMINARY TALK PD WE HINTED THAT THE CARRYING OUT OF THE SECOND REPATRIATION BY THE END OF FEBRUARY IS BEING CONSIDERED PD UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES CMA YOUR URGENT INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS REGARD WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED AS THERE ARE ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT BEFORE MARCH FIRST PD
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THE JAPANESE SIDE CMA SO FAR CMA HAS NOT RAISED OBJECTION TOWARD THE OPENING OF THE OVERAL TALKS ON MARCH FIRST AND SAID THAT IT WANTED THE LISTS OF BOTH DELEGATIONS TO BE EXCHANGED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PD HOWEVER CMA IN THIS REGARD THE JAPANESE SIDE EXPRESSED ITS DEEP CONCERN OVER THE REPATRIATION OF THE REMAINING JAPANESE FISHERMEN BY THE END OF FEBRUARY PD YOUR URGENT INSTRUCTIONS IN REGARD TO COMPOSITIONS OF YOUR DELEGATION WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED PD THREE

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