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    "ocrText": "C\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS AND\n-2-\nis\nSERVICE^\nfigure, Vas now disposed to support the larger figure. (General\nNedemeyer has subsequently emphatically denied ever having\nexpressed himself, either to Dr. Chough or anyone else, as being\nin favor of a Korean Army of more than 65,000 men. ) Dr. Chough\nwas informed in reply that the question of Korea's military\nrequirements was one in which we of course depended upon the\njudgment of our military authorities, whose present opinion,\nin so far as it Vas known to us, was that 65,000 was the optimum\neffective strength for the Korean Army.\nIn the second place, Dr. Chough said that his Government\nwae desirous of some further public assurance on the part of\nthe United States that the latter would \"stand by\" the Republic\nof Korea in the event of trouble. It was pointed out to Dr.\nChough that the Department's statement of June 8 (Press Release\nNo. 429) had been designed to meet the request of the Korean\nGovernment for a public expression of United States support,\nand that no further statement was contemplated at this time.\nDr. Chough replied that, while all of the recent statements of\nthis Government had been most gratifying to hie Government, what\nthey really wanted was e specific assurance that the United\nStates would come to the defense of the Republic of Korea in\nthe event of an armed attack against it. He was told that, as\nhe hed already been informed on previous occasione, such a\nspecific military commitment by the United States Vas out of\nthe question.\nThe third point raised by Dr. Chough was the question of\nthe possibility of the United States' underwriting a Pacific\nPaet analogous to the North Atlantic Pact. I pointed out in\nreply that my views on this subject had been set forth on more\nthen one occasion during recent press conferences, and that,\nin brief, the United States did not at this time contemplate\nany further extension or the undertakings embodied in the\nNorth Atlantic Pact.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter,\nBay, NLT. HC : NARS Date 4-23-76\nFE: NA :NWBond/pm\nCONFIDENTIAL"
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