COPY OF TELEGRAM RECEIVED ON 30TH JULY,1959
ON JULY THIRTIETH ELEVEN THIRTY AMBASSADOR YIU WILL MEET JAP MINISTER TO DISCUSS A WAY OF EASING THE TENSION CURRENTLY EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES PARTICULARLY IN CONNECTION WITH PROBLEM OF KOREAN RESIDENTS IN JAPAN PD IN THIS MEETING AMB YIU WILL PROPOSE TO JAP GOVERNMENT UNCONDITIONAL RESUMPTION AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE OF KOREA JAPAN OVERALL TALKS TO PREVENT THE PRESENT KOREA JAPAN RELATIONS FROM BEING FURTHER DETERIORATED PD OUR GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS IT MOST UNFORTUNATE TO PROLONG ANY LONGER THE PRESENT SITUATION OF THE KOREA JAPAN RELATIONS WHICH WOULD BE SURELY UTILIZED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSE BY COMMUNISTS AGAINST WHICH ROK FOUGHT A STRUGGLE OF LIFE AND DEATH AND DETRIMENTALLY TO SECURITY OF NORTHEAST ASIA PD OUR GOVERNMENT IS FIRMLY DETERMINED TO SOLVE IN THE OVERALL TALKS TO BE RESUMED PARTICULARLY THE PROBLEM OF KOREANS IN JAPAN FROM WHICH STEMS THE PRESENT STALEMATE PD IN THESE EFFORTS VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES SHOULD BE OVERCOME PD BUT THEY CAN BE REMOVED ONLY IF THE TWO SIDES GET TOGETHER AT CONFERENCE TABLE PD THIS IS WHY OUR GOVERNMENT AT THIS TIME PROPOSES RESUMPTION OF TALK UNCONDITIONALLY IN LITERARY SENSE PD IN THE SAME MEETING AMB YIU WILL MAKE THE FOLLOWING REMARKS CLN QUOTE STRICTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH NINETEEN FIFTYSEVEN AGREEMENT CMA ROK GOVERNMENT REPATRIATED ALL THOSE JAP FISHERMEN WHO SHOULD BE RELEASED BY THE TERM OF THE SAID AGREEMENT PA TO OUR REGRET CMA HOWEVER CMA JAP GOVERNMENT FAILED TO REPATRIATE KOREAN DETAINEES WHO SHOULD BE RELEASED BY THE ABOVE AGREEMENT CMA AND WHOM JAP GOVERNMENT PROMISED TO REPATRIATE TO ROK BY JAP TRANSPORTATION PD JAP GOVERNMENT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT AS SOON AS IT REPATRIATES KOREAN DETAINEES PRESENTLY AT OMURA TO ROK CMA KOREAN GOVERNMENT WILL REPATRIATE THOSE JAP FISHERMEN WHO SERVED OUT THEIR SENTENCES AS OF THIS DATE CMA IN SPITE OF NINETEEN FIFTYSEVEN AGREEMENT PD FROM HUMANITARIAN POINT OF VIEW CMA KOREAN MISSION IS READY TO DISCUSS WITH JAP FOREIGN MINISTRY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS MUTUAL REPATRIATION OF DETAINEES IF THE LATTER SO AGREES PD UNQUOTE ALL MISSION CHIEFS ARE DIRECTED TO CONVINCE OFFICIALS CMA PRESS AND RED CROSS IN HOST COUNTRIES THAT PROBLEM OF KOREANS IN JAPAN CAN BE AND SHOULD BE SETTLED BEST BY KOREA JAPAN GOVERNMENTAL TALKS CMA AND THAT JAPAN SHOULD COME BACK TO CONFERENCE TABLE SO LONG AS IT WANTS REALLY TO SETTLE THIS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL PROBLEM TO MUTUAL SATISFACTION INSTEAD OF ITS UNILATERAL DISPOSAL THEREOF PD MISSION CHIEFS ARE ALSO DIRECTED TO EXPLAIN ABOUT SIGNIFICANCE OF MUTUAL RELEASE OF DETAINEES AND REMIND THAT JAPAN FAILED TO REPATRIATE OMURA DETAINEES WHILE SHE TRIED TO MAKE FISHERMENS ISSUE LOOM LARGE TO USE IT FOR HER PROPAGANDA TOOL PD

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