NEGOTIATION STRATEGY
Question of our draft Joint Communique on resident issue and on effectuation of detainees' repatriation will be settled simultaneously at an earliest possible date along the following lines:
1. A Joint Communique of brief contents will be issued to announce in effect that an agreement was made in principle on the repatriation of Korean residents in Japan to and their resettlement in the Republic of Korea and also on the treatment of the Korean residents in Japan while they remain in Japan.
2. With regard to the problem of "compensation", the Japanese side will give oral assurance for payment of certain amount of fund to our side and the same also to the U.S. side which will keep record thereof to be turned over to our side. Definite amount of such fund will also be decided.
3. With regard to the problems of property to be taken away and fund remitted by repatriating Koreans and so on, an understanding will be made in the form of Exchange of Notes Verbals or Agreed Minutes, etc.
4. Announcement will be made for the mutual release and repatriation of detainees, setting the date for implementation.
5. Those Japanese fishermen who served out their sentences at of the date of the above announcement will be repatriated. As for the problem of those Korean detainees at Omura who allegedly desire to go to the Communist north, status, ous will be kept for the time being.
Remarks:
1) The Delegation will secure am understanding, in an appropriate manner, in effect that the two Delegations will continue negotiation concerning the resident issue to reach an agreement in concrete and detailed form on the basis of the principles which were preliminarily agreed on.
2) The Delegation will continue to negotiate with the Japanese side concerning rice-import question, etc., for settlement simultaneously with the problems as referred to in the foregoing paragraphs.