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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nH-47\nDOCUMENT B\nEnclosure 2\nDECLASCIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. ³(E) and\nDept. of State latter, YD)\nmail , NARS Danz-20-36\nUNIFIED, ADMINISTRATION FOR KOREA\nWe: are committed by the Cairo Declaration and by\nthe Potsdam Protocol to the creation of an independent\nKorea. I believe we are all agreed that Korea should\nachieve its independence at the earliest feasible\ntime and that every: effort should be. made to assist\nthe Koreans in achieving independence.\nIn conversations between representatives of our\ngovernments the idea of a trusteeship for Korea has\nbeen sympathetically considered. It has been gener-\nally understood that the trusteeship authority would\nbe composed of representatives of the U.S.S. R. , China,\nthe U.K. , and: the U.S.; and that the period of trus-\nteeship would endure for no longer period than neces-\nsary to allow the Koreans to form an independent,\nrepresentative, and effective government.\nAt present Korea is divided into two zones of\nmilitary administration. North of latitude 38 is the\nSoviet area; south of latitude 38 is the American\narea. This, division, made before the termination of\nhostilities to facilitate military operations and the\neffectuation of the terms of surrender, is manifestly\nan impediment to the achievement of a unified admin-\nistration for Korea. No effective liaison or coordin-\nation exists between the two military administrations.\nThe American Government has informed the Soviet\nGovernment of some of the more urgent problems that\narise out of the division of Korea and has proposed\n(1): the resumption of exchange of commodities between\nthe: two zones including the movément. of coal and\nthe release of electric power from the northern zone\nfor: use in the southern zone; (2) the resumption Of.\nrailroad and other traffic between the two zones;\n(3) the resumption of coastal shipping; (4) the estab-\nlishment throughout Korea of uniform fiscal policies;\nano (5) the solution by orderly means of the dis-\nplaced persons problem, including the return to Japan\nfor SEORET"
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