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No.WM-0738
DATE. 181700
TO. FOREIGN MINISTER
TODAY'S HERALD TRIBUNE CARRIED AN AP DISPATCH FROM TOKYO WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS:
MIGRANTS TO NORTH KOREA FROM JAPAN DISILLUSIONED"
TOKYO, JULY 16 (AP).---KOREANS MIGRATING FROM JAPAN TO COMMUNIST-RULED NORTH KOREA NO LONGER TAKE WITH THEM AUTOMOBILES, WASHING MACHINES AND TRANSISTOR RADIOS.
THEY TAKE CLOTHING, BICYCLES, SEWING MACHINES, SOAP, DRUGS, RAZOR BLADES, FOOD AND OTHER CONSUMER GOODS.
THEY LEARNED FROM EARLY REPATRIATIES THAT GASOLINE IN NORTH KOREA IS ONLY FOR THE PRIVILEGED FEW, BATTERIES FOR TRANSISTOR RADIOS ARE NON-EXISTENT,AND THE ELECTRIC CURRENT IS SO WEAK THAT WASHING MACHINES WON'T WORK.
THIS IS A PART OF THE PICTURE PIECED TOGETHER HERE, FROM INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND PERSONAL LETTERS, OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE 30,000 OR MORE KOREANS WHO HAVE GONE TO NORTH KOREA.
THE REPATRIATION PROGRAM WAS INITIATED LAST DECEMBER OVER BETER OBJECTIONS FROM SOUTH KOREA. IT PERMITS THOSE KOREANS SO DESIRING, AMONG THE 600.000 IN JAPAN, TO GO TO NORTH KOREA IN SHIPS SUPPLIED BY THE SOVIET UNION.
THE KOREANS WERE BROUGHT TO JAPAN LARGELY AS FORCED LABOR DURING AND PRIOR TO WORLD WAR II.
CHOSEN SOREN, THE NORTH KOREAN RESIDENTS ASSN., SAYS EVENTUALLY 120,000 WILL GO.
HESITATION SEEN
BUT A SLIGHT TREND AWAY FROM THE TURNEY INTO COMMUNISM SEEMS TO BE DEVELOPING. THE JAPAN RED CROSS REPORTS THAT 1,800 HAVE NOW CHANGED THEIR MINDS. OTHER SOURCES REPORT A CERTAIN "HESITATION" FORMING ANOINT KOREANS STILL IN JAPAN.
THEY ATTRIBUTE THIS TO REPORTS FROM THOSE ALREADY REPATRIATED AND TO OTHER FACTORS. SOUTH KOREA NOW HAS A MORE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT THAN IT HAD, AND LIFE THERE MAY BECOME MORE ATTRACTIVE. THE INITIAL REPATRIATION FERVOR IS WEARING OFF. NORTH KOREAN PROPAGANDA HAS SLACKENED. SOME LETTERS OF DIS-ILLUSION AND DISSATISFACTION HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY FRIENDS IN JAPAN.
SALARIES LOW
THE REPORTS SAY THE REPATRIATES WERE FIRST PUT INTO FINE APARTMENTS AT PYONGYANG, THE NORTH KOREAN CAPITAL, AND OTHER CITIES. GRADUALLY THEY WERE MOVED TO INFERIOR HOUSING IN RURAL AREAS, WHERE THEY WENT TO WORK ON FARMS AND IN MINES. SALARIES AVERAGE 60 WON ($25) MONTHLY FOR UNSKILLED LABORERS. HIGH WAGES ARE 80 WON, AND EXTREMELY HIGH WAGES RANGE UP TO 150 WON. WORK IS DIVIDED INTO THREE EIGHT-HOUR SHIFTS, BUT REPATRIATES HAVE HAD TO ATTEND INDOCTRINATION CLASSES IN THEIR SPARE TIME AND TO "VOLUNTEERS" ADDITIONAL WORKING HOURS. A NORTH KOREAN PAMPHLET ON THE REPATRIATES JUST RECEIVED IN JAPAN STILL DEPICTS A LIFE OF SMILING WORKERS, RECREATION, COMFORT AND HAPPINESS.
SOUTH KOREA PLAN
SOUTH KOREAN MOVES TO BETTER THE LIVELIHOOD OF KOREAN RESIDENTS, IN JAPAN AND PERSUADE THEM FROM JOINING THE MASS MIGRATION TO COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA WERE ANNOUNCED JULY 9 BY EA CHAI-HANG, THE SOUTH KOREAN MINISTER AT TOKYO.
HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT OF CARETAKER SOUTH KOREAN PREMIER HUH CHUNG HAS DECIDED IN PRINCIPLE TO ESTABLISH A $5,000,000 LOAN FUND IN JAPAN AND TO POUR "A CONSIDERABLE SUM" INTO A PROJECTED WELFARE FUND FOR DESTITUTE KOREANS IN JAPAN.
MR. EA GAVE NO DETAILS OF THE PROJECTS INTENDED TO STIMULATE UNDERPRIVILEGED KOREANS IN JAPAN INTO REJECTING THE PROMISES OF NEW COMMUNIST HOMELAND. THERE HAS BEEN NO MASS MIGRATION OF KOREANS TO SOUTH KOREA SINCE THE REPATRIATION OF MORE THAN A MILLION SOON AFTER WORLD WAR 11. SOUTH KOREA HAS OPENED WIDE ITS DOOR FOR THEIR RETURN ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. BUT THE KOREANS HAVE NOT TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THEIR CHANCE TO RETURN HOME BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN NO PROMISES OF THE JOBS OR OTHER ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THE COMMUNIST REGIME UP NORTH, THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT HAS REJECTED MASS REPATRIATION UNLESS JAPAN PAYS PACKAGE COMPENSATION AND ALLOWS KOREANS TO BRING HOME ALL OF THEIR PROPERTY.
THE QUESTION OF COMPENSATION IS ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES HOLDING UP JAPAN -SOUTH KOREA NEGOTIATIONS FOR NORMALIZING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
TODAY'S HERALD TRIBUNE CARRIED AN AP DISPATCH FROM TOKYO WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS:
MIGRANTS TO NORTH KOREA FROM JAPAN DISILLUSIONED"
TOKYO, JULY 16 (AP).---KOREANS MIGRATING FROM JAPAN TO COMMUNIST-RULED NORTH KOREA NO LONGER TAKE WITH THEM AUTOMOBILES, WASHING MACHINES AND TRANSISTOR RADIOS.
THEY TAKE CLOTHING, BICYCLES, SEWING MACHINES, SOAP, DRUGS, RAZOR BLADES, FOOD AND OTHER CONSUMER GOODS.
THEY LEARNED FROM EARLY REPATRIATIES THAT GASOLINE IN NORTH KOREA IS ONLY FOR THE PRIVILEGED FEW, BATTERIES FOR TRANSISTOR RADIOS ARE NON-EXISTENT,AND THE ELECTRIC CURRENT IS SO WEAK THAT WASHING MACHINES WON'T WORK.
THIS IS A PART OF THE PICTURE PIECED TOGETHER HERE, FROM INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND PERSONAL LETTERS, OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE 30,000 OR MORE KOREANS WHO HAVE GONE TO NORTH KOREA.
THE REPATRIATION PROGRAM WAS INITIATED LAST DECEMBER OVER BETER OBJECTIONS FROM SOUTH KOREA. IT PERMITS THOSE KOREANS SO DESIRING, AMONG THE 600.000 IN JAPAN, TO GO TO NORTH KOREA IN SHIPS SUPPLIED BY THE SOVIET UNION.
THE KOREANS WERE BROUGHT TO JAPAN LARGELY AS FORCED LABOR DURING AND PRIOR TO WORLD WAR II.
CHOSEN SOREN, THE NORTH KOREAN RESIDENTS ASSN., SAYS EVENTUALLY 120,000 WILL GO.
HESITATION SEEN
BUT A SLIGHT TREND AWAY FROM THE TURNEY INTO COMMUNISM SEEMS TO BE DEVELOPING. THE JAPAN RED CROSS REPORTS THAT 1,800 HAVE NOW CHANGED THEIR MINDS. OTHER SOURCES REPORT A CERTAIN "HESITATION" FORMING ANOINT KOREANS STILL IN JAPAN.
THEY ATTRIBUTE THIS TO REPORTS FROM THOSE ALREADY REPATRIATED AND TO OTHER FACTORS. SOUTH KOREA NOW HAS A MORE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT THAN IT HAD, AND LIFE THERE MAY BECOME MORE ATTRACTIVE. THE INITIAL REPATRIATION FERVOR IS WEARING OFF. NORTH KOREAN PROPAGANDA HAS SLACKENED. SOME LETTERS OF DIS-ILLUSION AND DISSATISFACTION HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY FRIENDS IN JAPAN.
SALARIES LOW
THE REPORTS SAY THE REPATRIATES WERE FIRST PUT INTO FINE APARTMENTS AT PYONGYANG, THE NORTH KOREAN CAPITAL, AND OTHER CITIES. GRADUALLY THEY WERE MOVED TO INFERIOR HOUSING IN RURAL AREAS, WHERE THEY WENT TO WORK ON FARMS AND IN MINES. SALARIES AVERAGE 60 WON ($25) MONTHLY FOR UNSKILLED LABORERS. HIGH WAGES ARE 80 WON, AND EXTREMELY HIGH WAGES RANGE UP TO 150 WON. WORK IS DIVIDED INTO THREE EIGHT-HOUR SHIFTS, BUT REPATRIATES HAVE HAD TO ATTEND INDOCTRINATION CLASSES IN THEIR SPARE TIME AND TO "VOLUNTEERS" ADDITIONAL WORKING HOURS. A NORTH KOREAN PAMPHLET ON THE REPATRIATES JUST RECEIVED IN JAPAN STILL DEPICTS A LIFE OF SMILING WORKERS, RECREATION, COMFORT AND HAPPINESS.
SOUTH KOREA PLAN
SOUTH KOREAN MOVES TO BETTER THE LIVELIHOOD OF KOREAN RESIDENTS, IN JAPAN AND PERSUADE THEM FROM JOINING THE MASS MIGRATION TO COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA WERE ANNOUNCED JULY 9 BY EA CHAI-HANG, THE SOUTH KOREAN MINISTER AT TOKYO.
HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT OF CARETAKER SOUTH KOREAN PREMIER HUH CHUNG HAS DECIDED IN PRINCIPLE TO ESTABLISH A $5,000,000 LOAN FUND IN JAPAN AND TO POUR "A CONSIDERABLE SUM" INTO A PROJECTED WELFARE FUND FOR DESTITUTE KOREANS IN JAPAN.
MR. EA GAVE NO DETAILS OF THE PROJECTS INTENDED TO STIMULATE UNDERPRIVILEGED KOREANS IN JAPAN INTO REJECTING THE PROMISES OF NEW COMMUNIST HOMELAND. THERE HAS BEEN NO MASS MIGRATION OF KOREANS TO SOUTH KOREA SINCE THE REPATRIATION OF MORE THAN A MILLION SOON AFTER WORLD WAR 11. SOUTH KOREA HAS OPENED WIDE ITS DOOR FOR THEIR RETURN ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. BUT THE KOREANS HAVE NOT TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THEIR CHANCE TO RETURN HOME BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN NO PROMISES OF THE JOBS OR OTHER ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THE COMMUNIST REGIME UP NORTH, THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT HAS REJECTED MASS REPATRIATION UNLESS JAPAN PAYS PACKAGE COMPENSATION AND ALLOWS KOREANS TO BRING HOME ALL OF THEIR PROPERTY.
THE QUESTION OF COMPENSATION IS ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES HOLDING UP JAPAN -SOUTH KOREA NEGOTIATIONS FOR NORMALIZING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
KORIC
1960 JUL 19 AM 11 4
색인어
- 이름
- EA CHAI-HANG, HUH CHUNG
- 지명
- TOKYO, NORTH KOREA, JAPAN, TOKYO, JAPAN, NORTH KOREA, NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, NORTH KOREA, THE SOVIET UNION, JAPAN, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, PYONGYANG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA, TOKYO, JAPAN, JAPAN, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA
- 관서
- COMMUNIST-RULED NORTH KOREA, THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT
- 단체
- CHOSEN SOREN, THE JAPAN RED CROSS
- 기타
- HERALD TRIBUNE
