PKM-32
NOTE VEREALE
The Korean Mission presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, with reference to the detainee issue, has the honour to state as follows:
At a meeting with Mr. Osamu Itagaki, Director of the Asian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affetirs, on August 12, 1958, Minister Tai Ha Yiu of the Korean Mission in Japan presented au Aide Memoire covering the following points:
1) The Korean side will have no objection to the temporary release of detainees if the Japanese side assures in writing that it will exercise constant vigilance to those detainees while they are out of the detention camp so that they could not be sent to the area other than such places as to be designated by the Republic of Korea ;
2) The above suggestion is made with understanding that no discriminatory treatment will be accorded to the detainees by their political affiliation;
3) The agreement to be thus entered into is provisional pending a final settlement of the problem at the overall talks in accordance with Article 2 of the Agreed Minutes of December 31, 1957.
In reply to the Korean position as stated above, on September 13, 1958, Mr. Osamu Itagaki delivered an 'Oral Statement ' to Minister Tai ha Yiu as follows:
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(Oral Statement )

With reference to the Aide Memoire handed by Mr. Tai Ha Yiu to Mr. Osamu Itagaki at the meeting of August 12, 1958, I wish to state that the Japanese Government has the intention, as interim arrangements. to handle the question concerning Korean parolees in due consideration of the request of the Korean side."
Though taking note of the efforts on the part of the Japanese Government toward the settlement of the problem, the Mission wishes to inform the Ministry, with regret, that the Japanese 'Oral Statement' as quoted above does not meet the request of the Korean side as set forth in its Aide Memoire handed by Minister Tai Ha Yiu of the Mission to Mr. Osamu Itagaki, Director of the Asian Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 12, 1958 However, the Mission hereby proposes that the problem at issue be taken up, for fundamental and satisfactory settlement, at the overall talks in accordance with Article 2 of the Agreed Minutes of December 31, 1957, while the other agenda items are discussed in relevant committees, so that the detainee issue presently under discussion may not further deter the proceeding of the fourth Korea-Japan Overall Talks.

Tokyo, September 27, 1958