795.00/7–1050: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
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[Received July 10—7:10 p. m.]
39. Immediately after meeting with Lie on offers of assistance re Korea, separately reported next following telegram (USUN 40),1 Korean Ambassador Chang took me aside as follows:
He said that 38th parallel was meaningless and that liberation and unification of all of Korea was essential, after which there should be UN supervised elections for whole country. He said that the UN should [Page 355] not stop short of this objective. If they did, Chang went on, we would be confronted indefinitely with necessity defending 38th parallel, North Korean Reds continuously being aided and abetted by Manchurians.
Chang expressed earnest hope therefore that airborne force should be landed behind North Korean lines (38th parallel) and North Korean Reds crushed (slaughtered) in pincers beyond hope recovery.
I told Chang I would transmit his views to Department.2
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- On the following day, Ambassador Chang expressed his views to Messrs. Rusk and Allison in a conversation at the State Department, indicating his great concern at press reporte that the British Government was attempting to achieve a settlement of the Korean problem through negotiations with the Soviet Union. Mr. Rusk stated that the actions of all concerned nations were being governed by the Security Council resolutions, that it was impossible to tell what the final outcome of the situation would be, and that there was no indication that the British or any other government intended to take action contrary to the Security Council resolutions. (795.00/7–1150)↩