공람
7월 19일
국장
SENT TO : Ambassador Ben C. Limb, Ambassador Yu Taik Kim
In connection with the problem of Koreans at Omura who allegedly desire to go to north Korea, you are jointly instructed to meet immediately Japanese Foreign Minister and make representation as follows:
1. Japanese attention is hereby invited to Article 2 of Agreed Minutes of December 31, 1957, according to which the problem of deportation of illegal entrants will be a subject of discussion at the Legal Status Committee. This problem has been also a subject for discussion at the Working Commuttee since January, this year, because it is related to the implementation of the terms agreed upon on December 31, 1957. But it is interpreted that both Government mutually understood at that time that the basic points of the issue would be dealt with better at the Committee of the overall talks.
2. Now the Korean side considers the time has come for both Governments to deliberate on the problem from fundamental aspect of the issue in the light of present circumstances, believing firmly that the transfer of the issue from the Working Committee to the Legal Status Committee of the overall talks would help both sides find a solution.
3. The Legal Status Committee is presently discussing the problem of Koreans of pre-war category. But if Japanese side is prepared to agree with Korean side to conduct the Legal Status Committee along the line of items 1 and 2 as above, the Korean side is ready to start discussion on deportation of Koreans of post-war category in accordance with Article 2 of the Agreed Minutes of 1957, in parallel with the discussion of the former issue at the same committee.
4. Under these circumstances, the Korean side requests that pending the settlement of the issue on deportation of Koreans of post-war category, the Japanese Government defer the execution of any unilateral decision on those Koreans, if there is any.
5. As it repeatedly told the Japanese side, the Korean side still has strong objection to the release in Japan of Koreans in question in any form. It will have no objection if the Japanese side intends to hospitalize some of those Koreans in question under its own responsibility for strictly humanitarian reasons if their health conditions are mutually recognized as critical, and if such hospitalization does not affect in any manner the Detention status of those Koreans, 'detainees ' at the Detention Camp.
6. It should be understood that the Korean side makes this in order to remove the present impasse, if there is any which might lie in the way of the successful proceeding of the overall talks in progress. But this representation contains nothing conclusive for the position of the Korean Government for final settlement of the issue.
7. To meet present circumstances of relations between the two sides, the Korean side has no alternative but the above-mentioned suggestion and awaits quick reaction thereto.
The above-mentioned points should be orally conveyed to the Japanese Foreign Minister without delay.

Foreign Minister