Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Far East, Volume VIII

740.00119 Control (Korea)/10–2346: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Political Adviser in Korea (Langdon)

Washington, October 28, 1946.

142. Cable from Kim Sung Soo⁶³ to ActSec asks for true facts concerning press report that secret agreement made at Potsdam provided for partition of Korea. Advise him sole agreement at Potsdam which concerned Korea was provision in published declaration that “the terms of the Cairo declaration shall be carried out.”

Byrnes

63. Telegram from Seoul, October 21, received October 23, not printed. It was signed as from “Chairman the Democratic Party of Korea”.