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is ARCHIVES AND SERVICE RECORDS
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
October 18, 1950
mon
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: General MacArthur's Message of October 16, 1950.
Syngman Rhee's message to General MacArthur and General
MacArthur's comments thereon, contained in his message to you
of October 16, are not entirely clear. However, it has been
apparent from other messages transmitted by President Rhee to
the Korean Foreign Minister, now in the United States, that
President Rhee's initial reactions to the Resolution adopted on
October 12 by the Interim Committee on Korea were based upon
incomplete and inaccurate press reports. The full text of the
Resolution has now been made available to him by the American
Embassy at Seoul.
There appear to be only two fundamental questions at issue
between the United Nations and the Government of the Republic of
Korea:
(1) The immediate and automatic extension of the
authority of the Government of the Republic of Korea
to the territory north of the 38th parallel and
(2) The holding of new elections throughout all of
Korea.
With regard to the first point, the United States and the
United Nations are in entire agreement that the jurisdiction of
the Republic of Korea does not automatically extend over North
Korea and that it will be the function of the United Nations
Commission, therefore, to arrange for elections and other constituent
acts which will be required to unify the country. In the meanwhile,
it will be necessary for the Unified Command to assume responsibility
for the administration of North Korea in consultation with the
Government
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, 11-87
PROJECT NO 77-37
By , NARS Date 1-17-78
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