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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nSUBSTANCE OF STATEMENTS MADE AT WAKE ISLAND CONFERENCE\nON 15 OCTOBER 1950, COMPILED FROM NOTES KEPT BY THE\nCONFEREES FROM WASHINGTON\nThe following were at the table:\nThe PRESIDENT\nGeneral of the Army DOUGLAS MacARTHUR\nAdmiral ARTHUR W. RADFORD, Commander-in-Chief\nU. S. Pacific Fleet\nAmbassador JOHN MUCCIO\nSecretary of the Army FRANK PACE\nColonel A. L. HAMBLEN\nAmbassador at Large PHILIP C. JESSUP\nGeneral of the Army OMAR N. BRADLEY\nAssistant Secretary of State DEAN RUSK\nMr. W. AVERELL HARRIMAN\nThe conference opened at 0736.\nThe PRESIDENT asked GENERAL MacARTHUR to state the\nrehabilitation situation with reference to Korea.\nGENERAL MacARTHUR: It cannot occur until the military\noperations have ended. I believe that formal resistance will end throughout\nNorth and South Korea by Thanksgiving. There is little resistance left in\nSouth Korea -- only about 15,000 men and those we do not destroy, the\nwinter will, We now have about 60,000 prisoners in compounds.\nIn North Korea, unfortunately, they are pursuing a forlorn\nhope. They have about 100,000 men who were trained as replacements.\nThey are poorly trained, led and equipped, but they are obstinate and it\ngoes against my grain to have to destroy them. They are only fighting to\nsave face. Orientals prefer to die rather than to lose face.\nDECLASSIFIED\nDECLASSIT\nICS Memo. 3:29:77\nPROTET mir 77° 38\nE. o. 11652, Sea 3(E) and 5(D) er (F)\nBYNLT'HC NARS, Date 5-10-77\nOSD Letter, April 12, 1974\nBr NLT-\n. NARS Date\nFOP SECKEI"
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