PRM-30
NOTE VERVALE
The Korean Mission presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, with reference to press report regarding the contemplated release in Japan of same of Koreans under detention at the Omura Detention Camp whom the Government of Japan is yet to send to the Republic of Korea, has the honour to make the following representation:
According to local press report of July 6. 1958 the Government of Japan has decided to release in Japan some of those detainees in the very near future.
In this connection, the Mission wishes to be informed of the authenticity of the said press report, and if it is true, the Mission is obliged to express its deep concern over the report, pointing out that such a decision on the part of the Government of Japan would be clearly at vaniance with the agreemeat reached at the conclusion of the Korea-Japan Preliminary Talks on December 31, 1957 and the commltments repeatedly made thereafter by Japanese members of the Korea-Japan Working Committee that the Korean detainees under reference would neither be allowed to go to 'north Korea ', nor be released in Japan.
As has repeatedly been made clear to this Ministry in the past, the northern part of Korea, which is an integral part of the territory or the Republic of Korea, is now under unlawful occupation by Communist aggressors. Therefore, the Government of the Republic of Korea is most energetically opposed to following any of Koreans now in Japan to go to the northern part of Korea. Furthermore, in accordance with the agreement reaehed between the Republic of Korea and Japan on December 31, 1957, the Government of Japan should have expedited the deportation of the Koreans under reference to the port of Pusan as was designated by the Government of the Republic of Korea.
In view of the above, the Mission lodges a strong protest with the Ministry aganist its repeated failure to abide by terms of the agreement reached at the conclusion of the Preliminary Talks on December 31, 1957 and its commitments made thereafter, and at the same time, the Mission wishes to repcat its request that the Government of Japan should take immediate measures to fulfil terms of the agreement and its commitments by completing the sending to the port of Pusan of ail the renaining 258 Koreans of the 1259 Koreans whose list was officially handed over by the Japanese side to the Korean side at the Korea-Japan Working Committee.
It is added that the Government of the Republic of Korea expresses its keen regret over the reported decision by the Government of Japan on the release in Japan of the Koreans under reference at this very juncture when the Korea-Japan Overall Talks is now under ways and wishes to call the most serious attention of the Government of Japan in this regard.

Tokyo July 7, 1959