DATE. July 19, 1958
SEND TO. AMBASSADOR BEN C LIMB, AMBASSADOR YU TAIK KIM
IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROBLEM OF KOREANS AT OMURA WHO ALLEGEDLY DESIRE TO GO TO NORTH KOREA CMA YOU ARE JOINTLY INSTRUCTED TO MEET IMMEDIATELY JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER AND MAKE REPRESENTATION AS FOLLOWS COLON
ITEM ONE JAPANESE ATTENTION IS HEREBY INVITED TO ARTICLE TWO OF AGREED MINUTES OF DECEMBER THIRTY FIRST CMA ONE NINE FIVE SEVEN CMA ACCORDING TO WHICH THE PROBLEM OF DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ENTRANTS WILL BE A SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION AT THE LEGAL STATUS COMMITTEE PD THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN ALSO A SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION AT the Working Committee SINCE JANUARY CMA THIS YEAR CMA BECAUSE IT IS RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TERMS AGREED UPON ON DECEMBER THIRTY FIRST CMA ONE NINE FIVE SEVEN PD BUT IT IS INTERPRETED THAT BOTH GOVERNMENT MUTUALLY UNDERSTOOD AT THAT TIME THAT THE BASIC POINTS OF THE ISSUE WOULD BE DEALT WITH BETTER AT THE LEGAL STATUS COMMITTEE OF THE OVERALL TALKS PD
ITEM TWO NOW THE KOREAN SIDE CONSIDERS THE TIME HAS COME FOR BOTH GOVERNMENTS TO DELIBERATE ON THE PROBLEM FROM FUMDARENTAL ASPECT OF THE ISSUE IN THE LIGHT OF PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES CMA BELIEVING FIRMLY THAT THE TRANSFER OF THE ISSUE FROM the Working Committee TO THE LEGAL SATUS COMMITTEE OF THE OVERALL TALKS WOULD HELP BOTH SIDES FIND A SOLUTION PD
ITEM THREE THE LEGAL STATUS COMMITTEE IS PRESENTLY DISCUSSING THE PROBLEM OF KOREANS OF PREWAR CATEGORY PD BUT IF JAPANESE SIDE IS PREPARED TO AGREE WITH KOREAN SIDE TO CONDUCT THE LEGAL STATUS COMMITTEE ALONG THE LINE OF ITEM ONE AND TWO AS ABOVE CMA THE KOREAN SIDE IS READY TO START DISCUSSION ON DEPORTATION OF KOREANS OF POSTWAR CATEGORY IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE TWO OF THE AGREED MINUTES OF ONE FINE FIVE SEVEN CMA IN PARALLEL WITH THE DISCUSSION OF THE FORMER ISSUE AT THE SAME COMMITTEE PD
ITEM FOUR UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES CMA THE KOREAN SIDE REQUESTS THAT PENDING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ISSUE ON DEPORTATION OF KOREANS OF POSTWAR CATEGORY CMA THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT DEFER THE EXECUTION OF ANY UNILATERAL DECISION OF THOSE KOREANS CMA OF THERE IS ANY PD
ITEM FIVE AS IT REPORTEDLY TOLD THE JAPANESE SIDE CMA THE KOREAN SIDE STILL HAS STRONG OBJECTION TO THE RELEASE IN JAPAN OF KOREANS IN QUESTION IN ANY FORM PD IT WILL HAVE NO OBJECTION IF THE JAPANESE SIDE INTENDS TO HOSPITALIZE SOME OF THOSE KOREANS IN QUESTIONS UNDER ITS OWN REPOSIBILITY FOR STRICTLY HUMANITARIAN REASONS IF THEIR DEALTH CONDITIONS ARE MUTUALLY RECOGNISED AS CRITICAL CMA AND IF SUCH HOSPITALISATION DOES NOT AFFECT IN ANY DETAINER THE DETAIEE STATUS OF THOSE KOREANS PD
ITEM SIX IT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE KOREAN SIDE MAKES THIS IN ORDER TO REMOVE THE PRESENT IMPASSE CMA IF THERE IS ANY WHICH NIGHT LIE IN THE WAY OF THE SUCCESSFUL PROCEEDING OF THE OVERALL TALKS IN PROGRESS PD BUT THIS REPRESENTATION CONTAINS NOTHING CONCLUSIVE FOR THE POSITION OF THE KOREAN GOVERNMENT FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ISSUE PD
ITEM SEVEN TO MEET PRESENT CIRCUMSTAUCES OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES CMA THE KOREAN SIDE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE, BUT THE ABOVE MENTIONED SUGGESTION AND AWAITS QUICK REACTION THERETO PD
THE ABOVE MENTIONED POINTS SHOULD BE ORALLY CONVEYED TO THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER WITHOUT DELAY PD

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