Letter from Prime Minister John Chang to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

90 ACTION is assigned to Qu KOREAN EMBASSY bla WASHINGTON D.C. to 511.10 JAN ECEIVER A STATE o. THERE TRUNAR TIME paid NA 1/29/51 his low u.s. life 151 January 20, 1951 Julie in Your Excellency, I have the honor to refer to a communication addressed by me to Your Excellency dated January 4, 1951, which deals with participation by the Republic of Korea in negotiations for a peace treaty with Japan. There are certain clarifying details which I have the honor to convey to Your Excellency at this time, and I would there- fore request that this comunication supplant my letter of January 4, 1951. Noting that some of the members of the United Nations are making plans to negotiate peace treaties with Japan, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Republic of Korea has a right to demand that its Government be permitted to join other participating nations in the ne- gotiation of such peace treaties. If such participation is not feasible, it is the view of the Korean Government that there should be an understanding among the participating nations which negotiate peace treaties with Japan that the Republic of Korea will negotiate a separate peace treaty with Japan with a view to the settlement of problems of the past and the present and to the opening of relations between the two countries.