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It has been widely stated that Korea is not a
decisive strategic position. Certainly on the polite
10al side Korea is likely to be an increasing embare
rassment. Southern Korea unfortunately is an extremely
unsavory police state. The chief power is concentrated
in the hands of the people who were the collaborators
of Japan and therefore Korea represents something which
does not exist in and North China. If the
Chinese are W Biling to trade with Japan it is because
they no longe 2 fear that trade with Japan means
Japanese stra egio control. Southern Korea, under
the present régime, could not resume closer economic
relations with Japan without a complete reinfiltration
of the old Japanese control and associations.
Kores is a danger to US in other respects. I think
that throughout Asia the potential democrats--people
who would like to be democratic if they could=mare more
numerous and important than the actual democrats. The
kind of regime that exists in southern Korea is a ter-
rible discouragement to would-be democrats throughout
Asia who would like to becomo democrats by association
with the United States. Korea stands as a terrible
worning of what loan happen.
MR. QUIGLEM: I suppose we could say that the pro-
gram of the occupation has two main phases police
phase OI° military control phase, established in order
that certain settlements might be reached, and the
other, a totality or reformist phase which might or
might not have been undertaken but which we have under-
takon and it seems to me that we leave out the question
of internationel complicationseothat probably on both
of these aspects of the occupational program we would
have to say that the time has come to wi thdraw and to
end the occupation.
I agree with Mr. Reischauer's estimate of the
trend 30 the Japanese attitude toward us and wish there
were time to discuss the reasons for it, but of course
thore isn't time. The cost of the occupation is of
course tremendous for us and it is also tremendous for
the Japanese and it is to some extent delaying their
economic recovery. -I would think, though, that we are
faced by a situation prompted by tho nov. constitution,
which wi 111 require us to set up a condition in the tronty
which
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